Vladimir Ilyich Saratov. (№ 366312)

Who really tried to get us is the President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev. Sent different negotiators, once almost agreed on the release, but at the last minute everything fell through. Offered to swap us Trucks, helicopters, aircraft parts, even the ransom money collected - more than two million dollars in cash... But the Taliban have stuffed the price we for them were a trump card. Who of them knew before? And so the world heard that in Afghanistan there is a movement of former students, graduates of madrassas.