This just in...
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Bounty offered for Chechen rebels
Russia will pay 300m roubles ($10 m) for information leading to the arrest of Chechen rebel leaders Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev.
Security services want any information that could help "neutralise" the two following the Beslan school siege, Russian news agencies report.
Beslan is preparing to bury more of the 335 people, including children, who died on the last day of the siege.
On Tuesday, Russian TV showed dramatic video footage from inside the school.
The footage, broadcast on Russia's NTV network, shows terrified adults and children packed into the school gymnasium as heavily armed, masked men walk around the room.
Explosives, apparently wired and ready for use, lie on the floor while others are looped around basketball hoops at either end of the gym.
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I've also heard that the hostage takers were taking orders via phone and talking to Maskhadov during the siege. Seems like my earlier report of his "disowning" of them was erroneous. In other words, it looks like this deliberate targetting of children was not an abberation, but a premediated act on behalf of the Chechen seperatist forces.
Or so the Russians would have us believe.
Mr Mephisto