| Four men accused of organizing a suicide bombing that killed 19 people on a bus near the Mozdok military base went on trial Friday at the North Ossetian Supreme Court, Interfax reported. Ingush native Magomed Kodzoyev, 29, North Ossetian native Issa Iliyev, 28, Kabardino-Balkarian native Arkady Arakhov, 28, and Chechen native Rustam Ganiyev, 25, are charged with terrorism and murder in the attack, which was carried out by a female suicide bomber on June 5, 2003. If convicted, they face sentences of up to life in prison. The suicide bomber detonated shrapnel-filled explosives near a bus carrying soldiers and civilians to work at a military airfield in Mozdok. Investigators say Kodzoyev and Ganiyev decided in April 2003 to stage an attack against federal forces participating in the military campaign in Chechnya. The two then hired Iliyev and Arakhov and recruited the female bomber, they say. |