Organizer of the Sep 11th terrorist attacks brought before military tribunal

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the organizer of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, and four accomplices were brought before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. The Associated Press reported this on May 5th.

At this first session Mohammed refused to answer Judge James Pohl’s questions. According to his lawyers, the accused was protesting against his “unjust” trial. Pohl warned Mohammed about inadmissibility of such behavior, and the trial continued without him.

Another defendant, Walid bin Attash, for some unknown reason was placed in a special chair used for aggressive inmates. After bin Attash promised to “behave appropriately”, he was untied.

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Day of mourning declared in Dagestan for victims of double bombing

President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov declared Saturday, May 5th, to be a day the national mourning in connection with the twin terrorist attacks that took place in Makhachkala, killing 12. RIA ‘Novosti’ reported this.

Two blasts took place in Makhachkala on the evening of May 3rd. The first was a suicide bomber who detonated an explosive device after stopping his car in front of a highway patrol post. Ten minutes later, after police and emergency ministry personnel had arrived at the scene, there was a second explosion. This time the device went off in a parked ‘Gazelle’ van. Law enforcement assessed the power of explosions at 10 and 50 kilograms of TNT equivalent.

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European Court will ask Russia questions about the largest terrorist attack in its history

The European Court of Human Rights will examine the actions of Russian security forces during the September 2004 Beslan hostage rescue. ‘Moscow News’ found out that the ECHR has agreed to consider a complaint from 447 residents of the North Ossetia city — people who were hostages, and those who have lost loved ones. These residents accuse the Russian authorities of violating the right to life in that law enforcement knew about the impending terrorist attack and did nothing to prevent it, and that the assault on the school entailed too much risk.

The Beslan victims’ case will be no precedent for the ECHR, which examined another terrible terrorist attack: the Chechen seizure of the Dubrovka theatrical center in Moscow. For failure to provide proper medical assistance to the victims and an ineffective investigation into the incident, the court resolved that the 64 plaintiffs be paid the unprecedented sum of $1.3 million

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27 persons were injured as a result of a series of explosions that took place in Dnepropetrovsk on April 27th. This was reported by Agence France-Presse, with reference to the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry (UEM).

The UEM officially confirmed only four explosions, though, according to unofficial information in the media, there were more.

'Komsomolskaya Pravda in the Ukraine' writes that there are rumors of fatalities in the city. Officially no fatalities have been confirmed.

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