Talk:Ruslan Odizhev

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[edit] Dzhemal's take on Odizhev's guilt

I did quote the two main points of Dzhemal' in that interview, but did not quote what he said about the apartment bombings. Though Odizhev probably did go to Afghanistan, he obviously had come back by 1999. This is clear from the source I used. Dzhemal' does not seem to know about the whole "FSB" episode...

I am looking for another corroborating source on this Afghanistan campaign thing; It seems rather odd that Omon and others do not mention it... It may also be interesting to know whether Odizhev fought in the ranks of Basayev in Abkhazia. --Paul Pieniezny (talk) 14:55, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Dmitry Balburov had info on the Abkhazia affair and on the name change. Note that the damaged lungs were mentioned in the southru article. Balburov also had the name of the shariah university and actually mentions Astemirov - obviously not the buyevik he is now- as a friend from his youth. The IHT question - why he was released if he was suspected of involvement in the apartment bombings is partially answered by Balburov's article too. There is no indication yet of what Odizhev did between 1994 and 1999. I do not think that we can depend on Dzhemal' to say he was in Afghanistan then. --Paul Pieniezny (talk) 13:22, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Important link dead

But still in google cache: [1]

This text is the only one which has Odizhev in Abkhazia and which has Astemirov as his friend in 2000. I quote the releavnt paragraphs from that article.

Taliban No Pasaran Dmitry Balburov

... Ruslan was not released until mid-May. He had been beaten severely and was in a state of depression. He said that he was first taken to a forest where they threatened to sell him into Chechen slavery. Then he was sent to a pre-trial detention center in Kislovodsk, where he was subjected to interrogation under what amounted to torture. This is a version of Ruslan's account from his friend, Anzor Astemirov.

"So they pretended to be gangsters?"

"Looks like they wanted first to break him."

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In any case, it can be quoted as Moscow News, 2003-1-20.--Paul Pieniezny (talk) 22:56, 30 April 2008 (UTC) Ruslan Odizhev's authority among the young Muslims stemmed not only from his training in Saudi Arabia but also the fact that he was a veteran of the war in Abkhazia. The latter circumstance strengthened the suspicions of the secret services about his involvement in terrorist activity as part of the Gochiyaev gang. Especially considering that Odizhev had served in the Confederation of Caucasus Peoples' Kabardin Battalion, acquiring combat engineering and mine-warfare skills.

It was most likely his mother who influenced his decision to help the Abkhaz at the time. Nina Odizheva was an activist in the Congress of the Kabardin People that, among other public organizations, was sending volunteers to the war.

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