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700 hard boyz iced in 2003
Russiaâs security agencies neutralised more than 700 active members of bandit formations and their bosses in Chechnya in 2003, Deputy Director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Vyacheslav Ushakov told newly elected State Duma deputies at the training seminar at the rest house of âBorâ (Pine Wood) on Monday. He said FSB agents had detained more than 200 people on suspicion of having links to terrorists, seized 3,500 pieces of small arms and 4 metric tons of explosives. More than 80 bombings were averted and 74 people were detained on charges with terrorism in the republic in 2003. Judgements were delivered to 18 of them. Commenting on the situation in the republic, Ushakov said a number of foreign organisations had intensified their work to destabilize the situation in the region and to turn Chechnya in one of the worldâs terrorist centres. Ushakov told the deputies that one should use all mechanisms, including the State Dumaâs to extradite to Russia âideologistsâ and notorious terrorists Udugov, Yandarbiyev and Zakayev.Udugov, incidentally, is the brains behind Kavkaz Center. Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-02-10 |
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