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Two Chechens arrested over Van Gogh murder
2005-05-27
Mildly gruesome photo of the murder scene at link. Also, it's Mosnews, so non-lunatic confirmation would be nice.
French and Dutch police have arrested two Chechen men in connection with the murder of a Dutch filmmaker critical of Islam, the Reuters news agency reports, quoting a release by Dutch prosecutors.

Bislan Ismailov, who was arrested in France on May 18, would be transferred to the Netherlands from France in June to be charged in connection with the murder of Theo van Gogh, a spokesman for Amsterdam prosecutors said.

"We have found his fingerprints on a farewell letter that (Van Gogh's suspected killer) Mohammed B. wrote to his parents," the spokesman said, adding the arrest had been made on the request of Dutch authorities. He refused to give other details.
More at link.

On an unrelated note, my article submissions have been taking default names lately (like this one and this one). Having emailed Fred, he asked me to try again so he could check my cookie (I'm using Firefox and have cookies enabled for RB). My apologies if I'm missing something obvious; I wasn't online much during the PHP conversion. - Rex Rufus
Posted by:Jort Snaiter9204

#6   Odd activity for your average Chechen nutter abroad.

Sound like 'enablers'.
Posted by: Pappy   2005-05-27 18:49  

#5  Posted 2 articles, one using Netscape 7.2 and another using latest version of IE. Both articles got posted under the bizzaro names. Glad I wasn't the only one!
Posted by: IG-88   2005-05-27 17:48  

#4  Okay. That isolates the problem...
Posted by: Fred   2005-05-27 15:39  

#3  I don't know, the last few things I've posted resulted in me having very bizarre names, even though I carefully typed (with two fingers) my usual nick. Comments seem unaffected. I use IE 5.5 and Maxthon, or various other browsers, all set to accept cookies, btw.
Posted by: Anonymous5089   2005-05-27 14:57  

#2  Beeb and some other outlets picked this up yesterday. Odd activity for your average Chechen nutter abroad.
Posted by: Tkat   2005-05-27 09:19  

#1  Is anybody else having cookie problems?
Posted by: Fred   2005-05-27 07:38  

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