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Dispute over identity of terror group
Straits Times | September 6 2004
MOSCOW - Confusion reigns over the identity of the group that seized the school in North Ossetia, taking hostage more than 1,000 children and adults.
According to the BBC, the Russian authorities are saying one thing, Chechen sources another, and it may take time for the truth to emerge.
The Russian version says the hostage-takers were an Al-Qaeda-funded multinational group linked to radical Chechen rebel commanders Shamil Basayev and Doku Umarov.
The Chechen version, as put forward by a rebel envoy in Europe, is that the attackers may have been Ossetians, Russians or Ingush - but not Chechens.
The pro-rebel Kavkaz Centre website suggests the leaders may have been Ossetian Muslims.
The two accounts were not mutually exclusive, the BBC said. Either would explain the reported presence of Arabs among the attackers.
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