
Belarus Says US Planned School Bombings On Election Day MOSNews \|\| March 20, 2006 Belarusian State Security Committee Chairman Stepan Sukhorenko has accused the opposition of conspiring to stage a coup, news agencies said Thursday. Sukharenko said he had evidence that the United States and Georgia were backing efforts to overthrow the country’s current regime by force in Sunday’s presidential elections. Stepan Sukharenko showed a press conference in the Belarussian capital, Minsk, a video of an interview with a man he said was one of those involved in the plot, RIA Novosti reported. The man said he had been at a training camp in Georgia at which training was provided by “four Arabs [and] officers of the former Soviet army”. The man also said a colonel from the Georgian security services and American instructors had conducted examinations, and that the Americans had told them to bomb four polling stations at schools in Minsk during voting Sunday. “The Americans told us to organize four explosions at schools. The place and time [of the attacks] were to be told [to us] later. Concrete locations were not indicated,” the man said. Sukharenko also showed video footage he said was of Georgian nationals confessing that they were to deliver money and “everything necessary” to create disturbances on March 19. He said it was possible other attacks were being organized. “We know maybe only a part of what was being prepared,” he said. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com “We are in no way interfering with the rights of candidates, but we are obliged to state that an attempt to take power by force is being prepared in the country under cover of the elections,” Sukhorenko said. “Preparations are underway not for peaceful protests but for violent actions including the use of explosives and arson with the aim of sowing confusion,” he said. Sukhorenko said all attempts to destabilize the country in the run-up to Sunday’s elections would be seen as terrorism. “Anyone who will take to the streets in a bid to destabilize the situation will face terrorism charges,” he warned. President Lukashenko, labeled by Washington “the last dictator in Europe,” is running for a third term on Sunday against three other candidates and is not expected to lose. About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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Belarus Says US Planned School Bombings On Election Day

MOSNews || March 20, 2006

Belarusian State Security Committee Chairman Stepan Sukhorenko has accused the opposition of conspiring to stage a coup, news agencies said Thursday. Sukharenko said he had evidence that the United States and Georgia were backing efforts to overthrow the country’s current regime by force in Sunday’s presidential elections.

Stepan Sukharenko showed a press conference in the Belarussian capital, Minsk, a video of an interview with a man he said was one of those involved in the plot, RIA Novosti reported. The man said he had been at a training camp in Georgia at which training was provided by “four Arabs [and] officers of the former Soviet army”.

The man also said a colonel from the Georgian security services and American instructors had conducted examinations, and that the Americans had told them to bomb four polling stations at schools in Minsk during voting Sunday.

“The Americans told us to organize four explosions at schools. The place and time [of the attacks] were to be told [to us] later. Concrete locations were not indicated,” the man said.

Sukharenko also showed video footage he said was of Georgian nationals confessing that they were to deliver money and “everything necessary” to create disturbances on March 19. He said it was possible other attacks were being organized.

“We know maybe only a part of what was being prepared,” he said.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

“We are in no way interfering with the rights of candidates, but we are obliged to state that an attempt to take power by force is being prepared in the country under cover of the elections,” Sukhorenko said.

“Preparations are underway not for peaceful protests but for violent actions including the use of explosives and arson with the aim of sowing confusion,” he said.

Sukhorenko said all attempts to destabilize the country in the run-up to Sunday’s elections would be seen as terrorism.

“Anyone who will take to the streets in a bid to destabilize the situation will face terrorism charges,” he warned.

President Lukashenko, labeled by Washington “the last dictator in Europe,” is running for a third term on Sunday against three other candidates and is not expected to lose.

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