Russians say truck bomb found near Chechen capital
A truck carrying more than a ton of explosives was found near the Chechen capital, Grozny, a spokesman for the Federal Security Service said today, announcing that a major terrorist attack had been averted in the run-up to next week’s Victory in Europe holiday.
Major General Ilya Shabalkin, chief spokesman for the federal forces in the North Caucasus region, said the Kamaz truck contained about 2,640 pounds of explosives and that it was connected with a major attack allegedly planned by Chechen rebel warlord Shamil Basayev, Doku Umarov and Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev, the successor to slain rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov.
