| Law-enforcement bodies in Chechnya have prevented in the past few months some 20 acts of terror which the gang led by Maskhadov and Avdorkhanov was planning to stage, a spokesman for the headquarters in control of the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. It was possible due to the information supplied by militants who turned themselves in to police, Colonel Ilya Shabalkin said. "The weapons caches whose location was revealed by the militants who gave themselves up contained up to 120 kilograms of explosives, which were to have been used in bomb attacks against authorities in Chechnya's Kurchaloi district. Experts believe using these explosives, gangsters could have carried out up to 20 terrorist attacks," Shabalkin emphasized. |