EXPLOSIVE! Officials: Tu-134 Suspect Is Alive

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By Carl Schreck
Staff Writer, Moscow Times

The investigation into the recent spate of terrorist attacks took a confusing twist Thursday when the Interior Ministry in Chechnya announced that the suspected suicide bomber of a Tu-134 airplane was alive and well and that her passport found at the crash site was forged.

A Chechen Interior Ministry spokesman told Rossiiskaya Gazeta that Amanat Nagayeva, the main suspect in the Aug. 24 bombing of the Moscow-Volgograd flight, was alive and selling toys in the Rostov region.

The revelation casts a strange and ominous light on the investigations into recent terrorist attacks, which include a Tu-154 that exploded almost simultaneously with the bombing of the Tu-134 and a suicide attack near the Rizhskaya metro station a week later.

The passport found at the Tu-134 crash site was a well-made forgery, but its serial number had not yet been issued, the paper reported the spokesman as saying.

Authorities are now trying to determine who the woman suspected of blowing up the plane actually was, and whether the passport found at the crash site was issued mistakenly or stolen, the paper reported.

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1. It was a Saudi tranvestite

by the name of Ameer Bukhari.