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Friday, October 25, 2002
Rebels threaten to blow up
captives in Moscow theatei
MOSCOW (AP) — Medics
dragged the body of a young
woman shot by Chechen rebels
from a Moscow theater
Thursday as the attackers
threatened to kill their hundreds
of hostages unless the Russian
army pulled out of Chechnya.
Two women jumped from a
window under Chechen lire and
escaped.
Forty rebels, including
women who claimed to be wid
ows of ethnic insurgents,
stormed the theater just before
the second act of a popular
musical at 9:05 p.m.
Wednesday. The woman, shot in
the chest, was the only known
fatality of the hostage-taking as
it moved into its second day.
Relatives and friends stood
in freezing weather outside the
theater in a rundown southeast
Moscow neighborhood 3 miles
from the Kremlin, their dread
matching the grimness of the
scene and the desperation of
the estimated 600 captives
inside. Special forces troops
moved in formation around the
building and armored vehicles
stood ready. Snipers were on
rooftops.
Three Americans were
among the 75 foreign hostages
in the theater.
In televised remarks.
President Vladimir Putin
described the hostage-taking as
one of the largest terror attacks
in history and claimed it had
been planned “in one of the
foreign terrorist centers” which
“made a plan and found the
perpetrators.” He did not pro
vide evidence the raid was
organized abroad.
In a broadcast monitored in
Cairo, Egypt, the Qatar-based
satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera
transmitted statements by some
of the hostage-takers who said
thousands of their comrades
Chechen gunmen holding hostages
Chechen rebels held approximately 600 hostages at a Moscow
theater for a second day Thursday. One woman was killed by the
rebels.
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stood ready to die for the
Chechen cause.
“I swear by God we are
more keen on dying than you
are keen on living.” a black-
clad male said in the video
taped broadcast. “Each one of
us is willing to sacrifice him
self for the sake of God and the
independence of Chechnya.”
“Even if we are killed,
thqusands of brothers and sis
ters will come after us, ready to
sacrifice themselves,” said a
female among the group, only
her eyes peering from a head-
to-toe black robe.
An employee said the tape
had been delivered to Qatar
from Al-Jazeera’s Moscow
bureau Thursday morning. It
apparently was made
Wednesday before the theater
takeover. The language spoken
by those on the tape could not
be determined since the audio
was broadcast with a voiced-
over Arabic translation.
The tape underlined what
appeared to have been intense
planning that went into the
audacious operation, which
brought the Chechen war 865
miles north to the Russian cap-
ital.
One of the masked men®
the tape sat before the cane
with a laptop computer infra
of him and a Quran, ik
Muslim holy book, on the to
at his right side.
“We came to the Russii
capital to stop the war orgaii
martyrdom, and our demanii
are stopping the war and tk
withdrawal of Russian troops,
one speaker said.
Another man on the Al
Jazeera tape said the attacks
planned "based onordersfron
the military ruler of tin
Republic of Chechnya."po
bly referring to A;
Maskhadov, who was presite
of the province in the intend
bet ween the 1996 end of lie
first war with Russia andik
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