| Sixty-two terror acts have been prevented since the beginning of the year, and 63 militant bases destroyed, said the Chechen republican board of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, as it gathered in session today to sum up the year's work. Emergency safety measures helped a successful federal presidential poll, and an extraordinary republican presidential election. The FSB cooperated with other law enforcement bodies to track down and confiscate 267 paramilitary cachets with a solid stock of arms, munitions, equipment and communication technology. Sixty-two militants surrendered during special operations. The counterintelligence service cut a channel on which rebels were getting money from the Middle East via Transcaucasia. Two Georgian journalists were deported from Russia last September for instigating anti-government action by Beslan hostages' relations. |