Chechens Receive Text Message: ‘Surrender’
From Times Wire Reports
Russia’s intelligence services have found a new way to get a surrender appeal to Chechen separatist rebels: They are sending it on cellphones by text message.
Cellphone users in the republic of Ingushetia, which borders Chechnya, have begun receiving text messages from Russia’s state anti-terrorist committee urging rebels to accept an offer to disarm in exchange for a fair trial.
The message provides four telephone numbers for rebels to call to negotiate an end to “their participation in illegal armed groups.”
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