10-18-2003, 07:06 PM
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So Fucking Banned
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Somewhere between my monitor and my chair
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Failed Assasination Attempt (Russian PM)
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Two men were arrested by police in London over a suspected plot to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to reports.
The Russian nationals, said to be renegade intelligence officers, were planning to have Mr Putin shot while on a foreign trip, according to the Sunday Times.
Scotland Yard confirmed that two Russian men had been held and questioned by anti-terrorist officers in London over a five-day period.
"We can confirm two men aged 40 and 36 were arrested by officers from SO13 (the anti-terrorist branch) on the morning of Sunday, October 12 in central London following allegations of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000," a spokeswoman said.
She added that the men were released on Friday without further action but refused to confirm reports that this was on condition they returned to Russia.
SO13 was alerted when they received a detailed legal statement from a former intelligence officer in Russia's FSB, the main successor organisation to the KGB, according to the newspaper.
The informant alleged that the two arrested men were trying to engage Russian exiles in Britain in the conspiracy to kill Mr Putin.
One of the suspects, reported to be a former KGB major, gave details of the plot to the informant in a phone call to him, the newspaper claimed.
But the informant feared that attempts were being made to set him up by implicating him in the plot and reported the incident immediately.
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