Three Russian citizens, who are ethnic Chechens, Ruslan Sadullayev, Amirbek Bishoyev, and Magambet Nuraliyev, were involved in an assassination attempt on Turkmen President Saparmurad Niyazov, said Turkmen Prosecutor General Kurbanbibi Atadzhanova. In addition, Turks Ekrem Celik, Sadi Celik, Omur Yekus, Mustafa Mesut Guler, Nejat Bairam, and Yilmaz Mehmet Ihsan; American of Moldovan origin Leonid Komarovsky, Armenian Aram Atanesian, and a number of Turkmen citizens are also responsible for the attack, the prosecutor said, speaking on Turkmen television. The main organizers of the terrorist attack, who were acting from abroad, are former Turkmen deputy prime minister and foreign minister Boris Shikhmuradov, former Turkmen deputy prime minister and Central Bank chairman Khudaiberdy Orazov, former first deputy Turkmen agriculture minister Saparmurad Yklymov, and former Turkmen ambassador to Turkey Nurmukhamet Khanamov, Atadzhanova said. In addition, prominent Turkmen businessman and head of the Gairat corporation Guvanch Dzhumayev, Saparmurad Yklymov's brother Yklym Yklymov, and Turk Yilmaz Mehmet Ihsan were coordinating the attack on Turkmen territory, she said. (Interfax)