Article: Russia Says Foreigners Aid Chechen Rebels

MARIA DANILOVA, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
12-24-2003
Dateline: MOSCOW


Sergei Yasterzhembsky, the Kremlin spokesman on Chechnya, shows a Turkish passport with a Georgian visa at a news conference in Moscow, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2003. A terrorist band, comprising foreign citizens was uncovered and destroyed a month ago in Russia's war-wrecked separatist region of Chechnya, the Kremlin spokesman on Chechnya said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

In a bid to prove Chechen rebels' links to international terrorism, the Kremlin on Wednesday displayed the passports of an Algerian, three Turks and a German who were among 17 militants killed by Russian special forces.

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