Qatar: Russian agents held for Yandarbiyev killing

[Aidoneus]

Russian agents held for Yandarbiyev killing
Thursday 26 February 2004

Qatar has charged two Russian agents with the murder of former Chechen president Salim Khan Yandarbiyev, provoking an angry denial from Moscow that they were involved in the murky plot.

"The two suspects arrested during the inquiry into the murder of Salim Khan Yandarbiyev have appeared before the prosecutor, who, after questioning, brought charges of murder against them," said a Qatari spokesman.

The spokesman gave no details about the suspects, but in a vehement protest from acting foreign minister Igor Ivanov, Moscow revealed the men were Russian security agents.

A third Russian agent was also arrested but subsequently freed.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/94A91120-BD80-420D-85E1-EDF79D0B7A46.htm

The killing referenced being this. Over a thousand people demonstrated in Qatar for his funeral. Of possible consequence to this, the Qatari state, which is effectively under US control and occupation with the large forces used as another staging ground to invade and occupy Iraq, most recently passed harsh "anti-terrorism" laws which call for the death penalty for anybody found guilty of murder by "terrorism".

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1. I just don't know who to root for here.

:puke:

[CaptainClark23]

2. Interesting...

I would have bet money that this was a predator drone kill. And we know who runs the predators...

Unless the two russians are the bagmen set up for the fall?

Am still convinced, with little other than hunch, that this was a favor for putin. So if I can have such suspicions, Qatari authorities certainly can reach the same conclusions.

So they reach out and nab two russian agents who were probably listed as embassy staffers without portfolio...

Cause no way were they about to raise flags about Predator hits against chechen leaders...

thinking aloud...