| A communiqué issued yesterday, May 2, 2006 and posted yesterday to alqoqaz.net, the Arabic website of the Chechen jihad, announces three different operations in Chechnya. According to the message, the mujahideen destroyed two Russian vehicles in separation operations in Shatoy and the village of Qaldaqn, and killed three Russian soldiers during a confrontation in Jan Fedino while they were conducting “inspecting operations”. In addition, the message states that soldier maneuvers being performed outside of the Chechen borders are only to lift the low morale of the Russians and provided “information propaganda” for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is “still in a critical situation within the offenses of Chechnya”. |