[Ohioan from Florida]

How about George Soros? Doesn't he have many "philanthropic" interests going on over there?

Of course, I'm trying to think beyond the lines of Muslim terrorists. Somehow the way they mention "abroad" just sounds a bit fishy to me. Who else is questing for world domination?

[MarMema]

Well there is Udugov, who was in Turkey but then supposedly moved. He runs kavkaz.org and is a big financier of these kinds of massacres.

We would think Basayev would be in ikcheria but then who knows?

Really, I would give a lot to know who the phone calls were made to.

Weren't there also phone calls made from the theatre/Moscow siege? Anyone recall what the outcome of that was?

[The_Reader_David]

You are all forgetting that in post-Soviet Russian usage, the rest of the former Soviet Union is the "near abroad". "Abroad" in Russian usage simply means "outside of Russia".