![]() ![]() There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but Russian officials variously blamed Chechnya's rebel president Aslan Maskhadov and warlord Shamil Basayev. High-ranking Chechen officials were among Friday's casualties, but none of the top leadership was in the buildings at the time of the blasts. In September, a bomb exploded in the main building during a meeting of top Chechen officials, killing a cleaning woman. The government compound had been targeted previously. "The international criminals use methods that have been well rehearsed in other parts of the world." "The monstrous crime in Grozny shows convincingly that the activities of terrorists in Chechnya are a continuation of the global terrorist challenge," the ministry said in a statement. The Russian Foreign Ministry said the bombers were part of an international terrorist army. "Many people, from rank-and-file soldiers to high-ranking individuals, were careless." "The agency in charge of the security of the government compound functioned exceptionally poorly," Interfax quoted him as saying in Grozny. ![]() Viktor Kazantsev, Putin's envoy in the southern federal district that includes Chechnya, said the servicemen guarding the compound had been negligent. The men wore Russian military uniforms and presented military IDs, the Interfax and ITAR-Tass news agencies quoted Dakayev as saying. Chechnya's deputy interior minister, Akhmed Dakayev, said there were three suicide bombers in the two trucks. ![]()
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