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Saudi link to Beslan militant
2005-09-01
One of the 32 militants who seized the school in Beslan a year ago taking 1,128 people hostage was probably a Saudi called Abu Farukh. In the first concrete evidence of foreign participation in the school siege which left 331 hostages dead, a law enforcement source, who requested anonymity, said prosecutors found a letter from Abu Farukh to his mother, who is believed to be in Saudi Arabia. "It said goodbye to her and it was signed Abu Farukh," the source said. The militant's full name is not known, but investigators say all the evidence points to him being of Saudi origin.

Witnesses and prosecutors have spoken about a "foreign element" among the dozens of militants who seized the school, yet have declined to provide details. A series of photographs of 32 dead militants, part of a dossier about the group, includes a picture of Abu Farukh. He appeared to be of Middle Eastern origin, while other militants were from the Caucasus. Ten were from neighbouring Ingushetia. Abu Farukh also appeared on a propaganda video shot in a forest near Beslan in the days before the siege. The video was put on a website run by a foreign militant known as Abu Dzheit. He was killed last year and is suspected of having organised the Beslan siege.
Posted by:Fred

#3  we all know that islamic terrorists are fueling the chetznian uprising, these ppl are scum and should be hunted down and tortured to death if possible.
Posted by: Viking   2005-09-01 14:50  

#2  "The Guardian" is staffed by militant journalists. Beslan was attacked by TERRORISTS.
Posted by: Thromoter Wholet6690   2005-09-01 12:13  

#1  You just have to love El Guardian's take on it. "Siege" it was?! "Militants" they were!? The asswipes at El Guardian need to tighten up their vocabulary to draw distinctions now that they've learned how to Google new intern hires to verify their credentials rather than make assumptions. Are there not more descriptive and appropriate words for folks who take hundreds of schoolchildren hostage and murder them in a school? El Guardian couldn't find them it seems. A siege could be a situation where militants surround an outpost or place for a period of time. A slaughter would be when hundreds are taken hostage and held in a room filled with explosives that are ultimately used to kill hundreds. Those who engage in that behavior are terrorists, psychopaths, scum, mass murderers, child killers etc. rather than mere "militants" who "organized" a "siege." El Guardian asswipes would do well to consider whether or not they'd feel their own terms would be appropriate if Beslan had happened in say, London or Oxford.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-09-01 10:11  

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