Qatar: two persons detained over assassination of Yander Baieve

The Qatari official news agency quoted an official at the ministry of the interior on Thursday evening that "two persons suspected to be involved in the assassination of former President of Chechenia Salim Khan Yander Baive in Doha on February 20 were arrested.

Yander Baive was killed and his son was wounded in a blowing up operation that targeted his car in al-Dufna area in Doha. Immediately the Russian foreign intelligence SFA denied any involvement in this attack.

The Russian authorities accuse Yander Baive of being one organizer of holding the hostages in a theatre in Moscow in October 2002, stressing that he was making telephone calls with the high-jackers.

The Qatari authorities approved a new decision to fighting terrorism which has become enforced as from February 16th. It stated to impose death penalty if the consequence of a criminal act is the death of person or weapons are used in committing the crime. The secretary general of the Qatari Shoura council, Fahd al-Khayarin, denied any connection between the issuance of the law and Yander Baive's assassination, noting that the " draft law was debated to members of the Shoura council since December 2003."