Russian 'Suicide Hijacker' is Alive; Passport
Found at Crash Site Was Forged
Moscow
Times | September 12 2004
Comment: The Russians are taking a page out of the 9/11
cover-up book, where planted passports were also used t frame patsies.
The investigation into the recent spate of terrorist attacks
took a confusing twist Thursday when the Interior Ministry in Chechnya announced
that the suspected suicide bomber of a Tu-134 airplane was alive and well
and that her passport found at the crash site was forged.
A Chechen Interior Ministry spokesman told Rossiiskaya Gazeta
that Amanat Nagayeva, the main suspect in the Aug. 24 bombing of the Moscow-Volgograd
flight, was alive and selling toys in the Rostov region.
The revelation casts a strange and ominous light on the
investigations into recent terrorist attacks, which include a Tu-154 that
exploded almost simultaneously with the bombing of the Tu-134 and a suicide
attack near the Rizhskaya metro station a week later.
The passport found at the Tu-134 crash site was a well-made
forgery, but its serial number had not yet been issued, the paper reported
the spokesman as saying.
Authorities are now trying to determine who the woman suspected
of blowing up the plane actually was, and whether the passport found at the
crash site was issued mistakenly or stolen, the paper reported.
A spokesman at the Chechen Interior Ministry was unavailable
for comment Thursday, and a Federal Security Service spokesman declined to
comment on the report.
Ninety people died in the two plane bombings, and the death toll resulting
from the Aug. 31 metro blast stands at nine.
Investigators had believed that four women -- Nagayeva,
her sister Roza Nagayeva, Satsita Dzhebirkhanova and Maryam Taburova -- traveled
to Moscow from Grozny last month with the intention of carrying out terrorist
attacks.
Dzhebirkhanova's passport was found at the crash site of
the Tu-154, making her the chief suspect in the attack, and Roza Nagayeva
has been identified as the suicide bomber in the Rizhskaya blast, Izvestia
reported, citing an FSB source. The FSB would not confirm this to The Moscow
Times.
Authorities have been fearful that Taburova would carry
out a terrorist attack. Taburova remains unaccounted for and is being sought
by police.
It was widely reported in the Russian media that the four
women lived together in one apartment in Grozny.
It is unclear whether the woman reported to have been living
with the three other women in the Grozny apartment was actually Amanat Nagayeva
or another woman with the forged passport.
It was also unclear what implications this could have for
the investigation into the terrorist attacks.
A spokeswoman for the Prosecutor General's Office declined
to comment Thursday on the possibility that all of the women were in possession
of forged identification.
"Right now the investigation is continuing, and we
will only comment after it has been completed," the spokeswoman said.
Meanwhile, also in the Rostov region, FSB agents have detained
two women suspected of training to commit suicide attacks, Vremya Novostei
reported Thursday.
The FSB branch in the Rostov region announced last week
that they were looking for Luiza Magomadova, 34, and Medni Musayeva, 16. Both
women was detained after undergoing training in a forest in the Rostov region
to become suicide bombers, an FSB source said, according to Vremya Novostei.
Gazeta reported that the women were being trained by an
associate of Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who has been implicated as the
organizer of the attack on Beslan last week that resulted in the death of
326 people, about half of them children.
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