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Chechen rebel spokesman dismisses FT chemical weapons report as "dirty".

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(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

The British Financial Times has published a report which alleges that certain anonymous "international terrorists" in Chechnya are preparing for terrorist acts in Europe, using chemical weapons. The paper alludes to an unnamed representative of the French special services. It claims that some groups connected with Al-Qa'eda have already been conducting experiments with chemical weapons in Chechnya. It talks about plans to attack Russian targets abroad using the poisonous substance ricin and the botulin bacteria.

Movladi Udugov, the head of the external subcommittee of the information committee of the State Defence Committee - Majlis ul-Shura of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, described the Financial Times report as a brazen lie which has once again been disseminated in Europe at the expense of the Russian special services. "This is a brazen lie, financed from the budget of the Russian special services. Its aim is clear - to once again try to justify the genocide of the Chechen people and whitewash the war criminal [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, who must be arrested according to all divine and human laws as a maniacal murderer who has hundreds of thousands of innocent victims on his conscience.

It is to be regretted that the Financial Times, which purports to be a respectable ...

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