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Russians Investigate 9/11 Connection
January 23, 2002
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian intelligence agents are investigating claims by a trolley driver who said he was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, a news report said Wednesday.
The man, identified by the ITAR-Tass news agency as Furkat Ibragimov, a 32-year-old ethnic Tajik, apparently called several foreign embassies in Moscow after the attacks and said he represented an extremist Islamic organization close to the Taliban.
The man allegedly claimed that he and the organization were responsible for the attacks, and warned that similar terrorist acts would follow, according to ITAR-Tass, which cited the Federal Security Service's office in the Ural Mountains city of Chelyabinsk where Ibragimov lives.
Ibragimov was detained after several embassies requested an investigation. During questioning he allegedly admitted to making threatening phone calls, the report said. Psychiatrists deemed him mentally stable and he was released on condition he not leave the city.
The Federal Security Service headquarters in Moscow, the main successor to the KGB, could not be reached for comment late Wednesday.
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