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July 27, 2006
Russia: Three Islamists Imprisoned In South Ossetia
News from Interfax states that three residents of South Ossetia in the Caucasus have been given life sentences today, for terrorism offenses.
The three are Georgii Valiyev, Georgy Zateyev and Iosif Kosiyev, who were convicted after they detonated a vehicle packed with explosives beside the Shida Kartli regional police station. The explosion, on 1 February 2004, killed three police officers.
Kosiyev denied the charges, but Valiyev and Zateyev both preaded guilty to the charges. The lawyers for the three men are going to appeal the verdict at Tblisi Court of Appeal.
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We reported on July 16 that Shamil Basayev, the "Butcher of Beslan" had carried a small prayer book in Arabic, called The Strength of the Muslim at the time of his death on July 10. Basayev had been blown up, decapitated in a blast in Ingushetia in the Caucasus.
The prayer book had apparently been carried at all times, under the Chechen terror leader's belt. On Tuesday, Interfax-Religion reported that Basayev always carried Islamic books, and in his lair in Chechnya in 2002, there had been found several "bayats" or Islamic oaths.
Boris Podoprigora, deputy commander of the North Caucasus federal group, said that Basayev's personal archives had been discovered in Vedeno district in Chechnya four years ago. These included two Sharia oaths, made by Basayev, to hijack two KAMAZ trucks.
Basayev also had a sharia criminal code book, stated the official, in Tuesday's St Petersburg edition of the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets. He also contained lists of those who had made donations to the fund. There were brownish stains (blood) on the receipts, "showing that the poor benefactor was asked especially convincingly not to be greedy". Next to Russian names on the benefactors' names, Basayev had written "Akkah Aqbar".
The "criminal code" of Islamic rules had commentaries scribbled by Basayev. Many of the items dealt with sexual matters. There are guidelines about how many sticks (beatings) are to be given to a Muslim who touched a Muslim women, how many for one who touched a non-Muslim women, and so on.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at July 27, 2006 7:27 PM
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