Suspects Enter Pleas in Suicide Jet Bombings
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An airline employee and a ticket scalper entered partial pleas to their indictments in connection with the nearly simultaneous bombings of two Russian passenger jets last summer that killed all 90 people aboard.
The Itar-Tass news agency said Armen Arutyunian and Nikolai Korenkov were charged with aiding and abetting terrorism and commercial bribery. Arutyunian denied some of the charges but admitted to others, while Korenkov denied all charges, the agency said.
Two Chechen women are believed to have blown up the two jets after buying scalped tickets.
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