Chechen Plot To Assassinate Putin After Next Weekend's Election Foiled

Security Services 'Foil Chechen Plot' To Assassinate Putin After Next Weekend's Election -- Daily Mail

* Suspects were held in Ukraine following an accidental explosion on January 4 as they were trying to make explosives, Russian TV reported today
* Two suspects 'had instructions from' Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov
* News of the arrests comes one day after 30,000 anti-Putin protesters calling for fair elections held hands in Moscow

A 'terrorist' with strong British links has been arrested in connection with a foiled 'plot' to assassinate Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Dramatic television footage showed half-naked and evidently wounded Chechen Adam Osmayev seized by special forces troops in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odessa.

On his knees, his head bowed, he said in an alleged confession: 'Our goal was to go to Moscow and try to kill Prime Minister Putin... Our deadline was after the Russian presidential election.'

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