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Nation & world briefing Police arrest two sniper suspects Daniel Chang, Shannon McCaffrey and Martin Merzer J | Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) ROCKVILLE, Md. — Police de clared the Washington-area sniper murders solved Thursday, In custody was a veteran of the Persian {UtlfWar and a teenage companion who au thorities say has been implicated in a deadly robbery. Police said a rifle ftmnd in their ear matched the murder weapon. Neither man had been charged in the killings as of Thursday evening, and their alleged motive remained unclear. But acquaintances said both men sometimes expressed anti American sentiments, and whatever the motive, police believe the sus- | pects shot 13 people — innocent men. women and a 13-year-old boy -“from a distance and then ran. Ten of them died. Police said a trail of tips and clues that stretched from the Washington, 1 ).C., area t<) Alabama and Washington state led a federal SWAT team to a blue 1990Chevrolet Caprice. It was parked at a rest stop off Interstate 70 in Fred erick County, Md., about 50 miles northwest of the nation’s capital. Inside the car, police found John Allen Muhammad, 41, who changed his name from John Allen Williams when he converted to Islam, and John Lee Malvo, 17, a Jamaican na *tive who apparently is not Muham mad’s stepson, despite previous re ports that he is. The two were asleep. Officers cap '' vs j £j tured them without additional vio lence. It was 3:19 a.m. EDT. A search of the Chevy Caprice produced a rifle th«*fc ballistics tests later concluded was the same weapon employed during the three week reign of terror, a federal agent said. Officers also found a sighting scope and a tripod. The car reportedly was modified * so asbooter eouldlie on the back seat and fire out of the trunk. That, ex perts said, could explain why no shell casings were found at most of the shooting sites. 1 * ■ 1 ” ■ !*••''£ f I Ludlow, Ky, who spotted the car at said he called p< > lice and was told to stay in his vehicle and keep an eye on the suspects. “I’m no hero, get me right,” he said in a radio interview. “I think I did a real good deed and may have saved a lot of people’s lives.” By Thursday evening, Muhammad and Malvo had not been formally charged with the crimes, but authori ties said they were certain they had their men. Prosecutors were sched uled to meet Friday to discuss charges and work out jurisdictional and other issues. © 2002, Knight Ridder/tribune Information Serv ices. Knight Ridder correspondents Tim Johnson, Carol Rosenberg, Sumana Chatterjee, Tony Pugh, Dave Montgomery, Frank Kummer, Dwight Ott, Jake Wagman, Karl Fischer, John Simerman and Kristi Heim contributed to this report. f i% r Alex Rodriguez Chicago Tribune (KRT) MOSCOW — Heavily armed Chechens holding about 700 people hostage at a Moscow theater released the body of a woman they had shot to death and fired grenades Thurs day at two other captives who es caped, ratcheting up tensions with the Russian government. Even as attempts at negotiations lurched, the rebels threatened to kill 10 people each hour if their de mand for an end to the 3-year-old war in Chechnya was not met, said two reporters for an Italian news agency who were released from captivity Thursday. Hundreds of heavily armed Russ ian troops, police officers and special forces soldiers encircled the theater. Inside the main hall, nerves began to fray, a hostage said by cell phone. 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