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| Caucasus |
| 9 hard boyz jugged |
| 2004-07-04 |
| Nine people suspected of being members in rebel groups were detained in Chechnya’s Achkhoi- Martan and Sunzha districts on Sunday, a Chechen Interior Ministry official told Interfax. "Special preventative operations are being held near the villages of Sernovodsk, Assinovskaya and Samashki, near the administrative border with Ingushetia. The operations are being conducted by the military and police. The nine detainees are being questioned. Firearms and ammunition were seized from them during detention," said Buvadi Dakhiyev, chief of the Chechen Interior Ministry’s special police force. Dakhiyev said that the villages have not been sealed off and that transportation facilities are functioning as usual. The search operations are strictly targeted, he said. "We prepared for this operation thoroughly so as not to damage the interests of the local residents," he said. No one was injured during the operation. Dakhiyev said that most of the rebels detained in this district over the past few days were members of an armed group led by Doka Umarov. He declined to comment on the duration of the operation. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |