Samurai Sword Used to Slay Poet

An Islamist militant has hacked a North Ossetian poet to death with a samurai sword, which was found in the suspect’s home after police killed him for resisting arrest, investigators said Thursday. The sword attack was revenge for a 2008 poem by Shamil Dzhikayev denouncing Muslim pilgrims on Hajj who purportedly urinated on a memorial to children slain during the Beslan school siege in 2004, Chechnyatoday.com reported. The […]