Ukraine/Russia: Chechen terrorists sent to assassinate Putin

Ukraine/Russia: Chechen terrorists sent to assassinate Putin

Detention of the alleged terrorists in Ukrainian city of Odessa
(image from Channel One footage, via RT)


Via AFP:
Channal One showed confessions from two men who said they were acting on the orders of the feared Chechen Islamist militant Doku Umarov -- the man who claimed deadly airport and metro bombings in Moscow in the last two years.

The two said they had prepared the attack in Odessa and planned to execute it in Moscow after an election in which Prime Minister Putin is widely expected to regain the presidency he held in 2000-2008.

Channel One said three plotters came to Ukraine from the United Arab Emirates via Turkey with "clear instructions from representatives of Doku Umarov."

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