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Originally posted by Channel 4 News (UK) "He told us that when the hostages were brought in, the gunmen made the adults pry open the gymnasium floor. They took out supplies of weapons from underneath the floor," he said. Such accounts strengthened the view that the gunmen were well prepared and had local help, and fuelled the anger of residents who accused Putin of making only a token visit to the town and failing in his duty to protect them. Valery Andreyev, local head of the FSB security service, was quoted by Moscow radio station Ekho Moskvy as saying the militants may have received help from local police, possibly because they were coerced.

SCHOOL TERRORISTS GOT ORDERS FROM ABROAD: PUTIN'S ADVISER

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Aslanbek Aslakhanov, a Chechen, was on the site throughout the tragedy, and contacted the gang on the telephone. "The men were certainly not Chechens. When I spoke Chechen with them, they said they couldn't make out a word. 'Speak Russian,' they told me. Well, I did as they wished, though I speak Russian with a Caucasian accent," he said in his TV interview.

Chechen Separatists Say “Third Force” Behind Terrorist Attacks

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Chechen Separatists Say “Third Force” Behind Terrorist Attacks Created: 02.09.2004 15:58 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 17:15 MSK MosNews Akhmed Zakayev, a special envoy to Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov has said that “a third force that brought Russian President Vladimir Putin to power” is behind all the terrorist attacks committed in Russia over the past two weeks. London-based Zakayev said this in an exclusive interview with the Caucasus Times newspaper, printed in Prague, Czech Republic. Zakayev believes that the twin aircraft crash last week, the blast near Rizhskaya metro station on 31 August and today’s events in North Ossetia are links in the same chain and that “the same power that wants to destabilize the situation in the North Caucasus region” is behind them. A militant Muslim group called the Islambouli Brigades earlier claimed responsibility for downing two passenger plains and for the bomb blast in Moscow. The legitimacy of the group and the authenticity of such statements have not been verified.

Israel urges Russia to back fence at UN

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Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said he told Lavrov that Israel now expects Russia not to support a Palestinian resolution at the United Nations on the fence issue later this month, which calls for sanctions against Israel. Russia voted against Israel on this issue when it was brought to the General Assembly in July. In their 90-minute meeting in Jerusalem, Shalom pointed out that in the last 21 UN votes relating to Israel, Russia voted against Israel 17 times and abstained on four occasions.

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