Prosecutor: Beslan Attackers Were Drug Users
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Forensic analysis of the bodies of 31 militants who died in the Beslan school attack last month has determined that all of them were dependent on drugs, a senior regional prosecutor said.
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Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev claims responsibility for the Beslan siege in which more than 320 hostages died.
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BESLAN, Russia  - When gunmen first herded them  into the gymnasium and strung explosives from wires above their  heads, things were not so bad, pupils at Beslan's Middle School  No. 1 said.
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Islamic militants killed four anti-drugs unit members and seized more than 170 submachine guns and pistols on Tuesday in an attack on the unit's offices in Russia's volatile Caucasus region.
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MOSCOW -- Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who seized more than 1,000 hostages in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor was quoted as saying yesterday. Nikolai Shepel, Russia's deputy prosecutor general, said forensic specialists found traces of drugs in the bodies of some of the ...
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Bribery and negligence by officials  helped Chechen suicide bombers get on board two passenger  planes last month and blow them up, Russia's chief prosecutor  said in an interview published on Wednesday.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, RUSSIA - Three Russian police officers have been charged with criminal negligence in connection with the Beslan school hostage-taking that left 360 people dead, almost half of them children.
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Three Russian policemen were charged on Wednesday with criminal negligence for failure to prevent the deaths of more than 350 hostages seized at a school in Beslan.
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MOSCOW  - Prosecutors charged three people Friday in connection with last month's bombings of two Russian airliners, the Interfax news agency reported.
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Alexander Torshin, the head of a parliamentary commission investigating last month&#39;s Beslan school hostage crisis, on Tuesday questioned officials&#39; contentions that the raiders were using narcotics, saying he believes they were deranged by an unknown drug
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Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who seized more than 1,000 hostages in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor was quoted as saying Sunday.
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A powerful Russian prosecutor said on Friday self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky could be behind the murder of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko, a charge dismissed by a friend of Litvinenko.
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Chechnya&#39;s rebel leader says militant Shamil Basayev will go on trial for masterminding the hostage siege in Beslan after fighting in the breakaway Russian republic comes to an end.
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In an Internet posting, a Chechen warlord with a $10 million bounty on his head has apparently claimed responsibility for the Beslan school siege and promised more attacks on Russian civilians if Chechnya is not granted independence.
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Three Russian policemen were charged Wednesday with criminal negligence leading to the deaths of more than 350 hostages seized at a school in Beslan.
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Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, in a letter posted Friday on the net, claimed responsibility for the Beslan school hostage-taking in which more than 330 people were killed,, the Interfax news agency reported.
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BESLAN, Russia  -- More than 340 people, including 155 children, were killed in the violence that ended a hostage standoff with militants at a southern Russian school, a prosecutor said Saturday. President Vladimir Putin accused the attackers of trying to spark an ethnic conflict that would engulf Russia's troubled Caucasus Mountains region.