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| Former special battalion commander captured in Chechnya |
| 2006-06-10 |
| Former commander of the special battalion “Borz” of the so-called Army of Ichkeria has been detained in the Naursky region of Chechnya, Itar-Tass learnt at the press centre of the Regional Operational Headquarters on Thursday. According to the headquarters, the detainee “occupied commanding posts in the so-called Army of Ichkeria: in 1998, he commandered the Naursk regiment, and since 2000, he participated in combat actions against federal forces as a field commander of illegal armed groups.” As a representative of the press centre said, another gunman was detained in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny. “He participated in an attack on several administrative facilities of Ingushetia in the summer of 2004 and was a member of the so-called back-up group which was to capture the school in the Ingush village of Nesterovskaya,” the Itar-Tass interlocutor said. The gunman also participated in staging several acts of terrorism in Chechnya. Besides, according to the press centre, two accomplices of gunmen were detained in the Shelkovskoi region of the republic. One of them supplied gunmen with arms and ammunitions and prepared caches for their keeping. Another detainee transported gunmen to the site of acts of terrorism by his car. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 pliars and blowtorch graphic, please |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-10 11:01 |