Leading Chechen rebel commander Shamil Basayev says separatist guerrillas under his command carried out the two suicide attacks that killed 78 people in the breakaway Russian republic last week.
| "Yep. That's right. We dunnit and we're glad! Glad, I tell yez! Ain'tcha surprised it was us?" |
"Our martyrs' two sabotage attacks are only a small part of the operations we have planned for this year,'" Basayev said.
| "I mean, we're gonna be boomin' like crazy around here. But we ain't terrorist. Nope, nope. We're freedumb fighters!" |
The announcement has been made in a statement issued under his nom de guerre, Abdallah Shamil Abu-Idris, on the rebel Kavkaz Centre web site. Basayev says his brigade "carried out two successful sabotage operations against the Russian occupiers and their stooges — the Chechen national traitors." |