The suspect was apparently connected with the Chechen jihadists. From MosNews, with thanks to Anthony:
Moscow police intercepted a car packed with explosives in central Moscow on Saturday and said they had thwarted a terrorist attack, Russian media reported.Police found a 200-gram block of TNT, two anti-personnel landmines and a 20-liter canister with gasoline along with detonators and an electronic operating device in an old Lada.
A suspect arrested at the scene told investigators he was offered $1,000 to take the car to a major thoroughfare President Vladimir Putin uses to travel to and from the Kremlin, news agencies and television said, quoting security forces. The Kommersant daily has cited an unnamed source in the law enforcement agencies as saying that the suspect, whose name was reported as Pumane was a Russian naval officer on a submarine.
The daily also reported that the car in which the explosives were found was registered in the name of a woman who supposedly was a wife of a Chechen rebel.
Pumane died in hospital six hours after questioning. Initial reports said the man had suffered a heart attack, but shortly afterwards it was reported that he had bean beaten to death, apparently during the interrogation.
Oh these 'heart attacks!'One happened to a Jihadist in Lebanon too... Suggest though it would have been more sensible to have let him live
[long enough] so he could have met up with the others and Russians could have captured rest of bombers.
We hope he lived long enough to impart information about the rest of the vile and base individuals that make up his group.
Wow.
Am holding my breath for the leftie-humanists to march out in protest against human-right violations at the Russian embassy here. Not that it would matter one iota to the Russian govt or the Russian public anyway.
Way to go, Ivan. Now perhaps its time to pay a visit to the chechen woman in whose name the car was registered, eh? and her hubby dear, of course.....
I hope they (did/n't) hurt him!!! Delete as appropriate
Looks like the Russians dont fool around with 'torture' like the US supposedly does....bet this jackass would have prefered the pyramids and panties rather than 2 burly Russians bashing his worthless head in.
Well.. however he died, it is my hope that after they throw his body into a shallow grave they don't forget to toss in a pig carcass for good measure..
Well, I hope they got all the information they needed out of him, first.
Hmmm...no need to worry about him escaping from prison, no need to worry about bleeding heart liberals demanding to let him go, no need to worry about a bleeding heart judge letting him go or reducing his sentence, no need to worry about him running operations from prison or inspiring others to act...you know, there is a LOT to be said for the way the Russians handle these things.
Now, if only the blind sheikh and Johnny Walker Lindh could go the same way...
Torturing terrorists to death is a good thing.
Back to Hell he goes.
It was stupid to let him die. Why didn't they get a competent tort..er..interrogator. Now they will never get any information. Even if they had kept in prison for years he might still have given something at the end of it.
Dunno if the man killed was moslem in the first place, seems more like a contract job to me. He claimed to have gotten $1000 to do this job.
Else the russos are not beneath acting on what we've been raging about for so long.
they're the kind who'll bury mslem dead in pigskin, videotape it and make sure chechens getto see what happerns to aspiring martyrs.
the kgfb is rife with such videos of torture and execution of traitors, would-be defectors etc. And Putin is a kgb man.
Dont get me wrong. I dont condone torture. But against child-rapists and murderers, i will consider lookiing the other way...
As noted, it sounds like this guy was just a courier. Hence the rapid, and public, disposal.
But really, anyone who thinks the 'human rights' crowd is going to make much of this is fooling themselves. Abu Ghraib was so much worse; never mind that nobody died, Americans were involved.