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Attack bid in Moscow

By Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW, SEPT. 19. Russian security services foiled a terrorist bomb attack in Moscow on Saturday morning . Police found explosives in a car whose driver had been stopped for a check shortly after midnight in Moscow on Saturday, the FSB spokesman, Sergei Ignatchenko, said. The 38-year-old driver, Alexander Pumane, who appeared to be drugged, told police that he had been hired to drive three cars to Kutuzovsky Prospect and park them near the Borodino Panorama museum. Bomb disposal experts found mines and other explosives in two of the three cars indicated by the detained driver.

The driver said the car bombs were to go off when delegates to an international mayors' conference in Moscow were to visit the museum on Saturday. Kutuzovsky Prospect is also the road the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, takes every morning to drive to the Kremlin.

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