| A Wahhabite who gave shelter to a suspect in the terrorist act carried out in Kaspiisk, Dagestan, on May 9, 2002 has been convicted in Astrakhan. "The Astrakhan Sovetsky Court’s sentence on Dagestani native M. Abdurazakov, pronounced in late December 2003, has entered into force. Abdurazakov headed the Wahhabite community of Astrakhan," a representative of the Federal Security Service’s public relations center said. He said Abdurazakov was convicted of illegal possession of arms and would spend one and a half years in a penal colony. A. Abdulkarimov, a suspect in the terrorist act carried out in Kaspiisk, Dagestan, on May 9, 2002 was detained in a joint operation conducted by the Astrakhan and Dagestani Departments of the Federal Security Service, the Astrakhan regional police department and the Dagestani Interior Ministry on June 10, 2003. The suspect, who was on the federal wanted list, was hiding out in Abdurazakov’s house. The search of the house yielded a Kalashnikov assault rifle with cartridges, two radio sets and video material containing Wahhabite propaganda. |