Good news from Russia

(via Jihad Watch)

Moscow police intercept car bomb, suspect beaten to death.

Moscow police intercepted a car packed with explosives in central Moscow on Saturday and said they had thwarted a terrorist attack, Russian media reported.

Police found a 200-gram block of TNT, two anti-personnel landmines and a 20-liter canister with gasoline along with detonators and an electronic operating device in an old Lada.

A suspect arrested at the scene told investigators he was offered $1,000 to take the car to a major thoroughfare President Vladimir Putin uses to travel to and from the Kremlin, news agencies and television said, quoting security forces. The Kommersant daily has cited an unnamed source in the law enforcement agencies as saying that the suspect, whose name was reported as Pumane was a Russian naval officer on a submarine.

The daily also reported that the car in which the explosives were found was registered in the name of a woman who supposedly was a wife of a Chechen rebel.

Pumane died in hospital six hours after questioning. Initial reports said the man had suffered a heart attack, but shortly afterwards it was reported that he had bean beaten to death, apparently during the interrogation.

Call me what you will, but this looks like a pretty good blueprint for how to handle people who are involved in trying to slaughter innocents. I just hope they were able to get all the information they could out of him before he expired - perhaps they could have used a few extra days to make doubly sure, but the end result sends a clear message to those who may seek to aid the Chechen islamic "resistance." At least it's a start.