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| Caucasus |
| Chechens trying to regroup in Ingushetia |
| 2004-03-31 |
| Chechen rebels, who are currently suffering considerable losses in Chechnya, are trying to use Ingushetia as a place for preparing large-scale terrorist attacks and acts of sabotage. "Members of illegal armed units are trying to center their activities on instigating an inter-ethnic conflict. In order to achieve this goal, they are ready to plot and stage terrorist attacks against the republic's population and Chechen refugees," Col. Ilya Shabalkin, spokesman for the regional headquarters for the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, told Interfax on Tuesday. To confirm this assertion, Shabalkin said that Chechen refugees living in the Sputnik camp had contacted law enforcement agencies saying that children playing on the roadside had found a cardboard box with an electric wire attached to it. The box contained an explosive device consisting of two kilograms of plastid and an electric detonator. "The explosive devices was also filled with nails, bolts and pieces of metal to cause greater damage," Shabalkin said. The spokesman said that the bomb had been destroyed. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |