"Not only Chechens were on the school-seizing gang. Religion did not underlie the act, either-no gods call their worshippers to murder," the Senator said at a political section session of the St. Petersburg Dialogue, a Russo-German forum underway in Hamburg.
"Political progress in on in Chechnya. Terror acts are what opponents of that progress recur to on provocative schemes. They are out to force Moscow into making war, and to turn North Caucasian ethnic problems into a sanguinary conflict.
"Terrorists have a far-reaching goal, too-to hamper liberal reforms and dismember Russia," warned Mr. Marghelov as he appealed for a broad-based international anti-terror combat.
Exemplifying such teamwork was a joint statement by Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of Germany. They instructed a high-level Russo-German ad hoc team for security to draft a detailed practice-oriented program for bilateral anti-terror efforts. "No doubt, that will enhance the efficiency of the international anti-terror cause," said the Senator.
