From: EurasiaDigest (digest@eurasianet.org)
Date: Wed May 07 2008 - 14:04:29 EDT
KAZAKH POLICE ARREST ALLEGED UZBEK SUICIDE BOMBER
Kalibek Yelshibekov, the deputy police chief in the town of Semey in the
East Kazakhstan Oblast, announced on May 5 that Kazakh police have
arrested an Uzbek citizen whom they suspected of being a potential
suicide bomber, Kazakh Television reported. The unidentified man was
said to be wearing in a belt laden with live explosives and was arrested
after being stopped by police in a routine traffic check. Munitions
experts from an engineering regiment stationed at a local army garrison
successfully defused the explosives. Police officials later reported
that the Uzbek man has been working in Kazakhstan for the past three
years and they are as yet unable to determine his motives or his
intended target for the bombing. He was arrested along with the two
other occupants of the car, his son and a 20-year old woman. RG
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