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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Two Gunmen Killed in Dagestan
2005-07-06
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) - An early morning shootout between police and gunmen with automatic weapons left a bystander and two of the gunmen dead in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Wednesday, police said. The violence was the latest in a series of attacks involving police and government officials in the region bordering Chechnya, raising fears that yet another Caucasus region would be consumed by violence and chaos.
The shootout began around 7 a.m. when police went to a two-story brick building in the capital, Makhachkala, to search a building suspected of housing gunmen, said Marina Riasulova, a spokeswoman for the city's Interior Ministry. As police approached the house, at least five gunmen inside opened fire with automatic weapons and police returned fire in a shootout lasting for nearly two hours, authorities said. A witness who accompanied police was shot and killed in the crossfire.
A "witness" leading cops to a "hideout" and gets "killed" in the "crossfire". Now where have I heard that before?
One police officer and at least two of the gunmen were wounded. Two other gunmen escaped.
Russia's Deputy Interior Minister Andrei Novikov said the gunmen were responsible for an explosion Tuesday that tore through a police post in Makhachkala, killing at least two officers and wounding three. City police spokesman Khabib Magomedov said police discovered shutter guns weapons and computer software in the house, along with extremist literature, including copies of Hitler's "Mein Kampf," and material on Wahhabism, an extreme form of Islam that inspired al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
Meanwhile, the regional Interior Ministry said an explosive device destroyed part of a natural gas pipeline just after midnight Tuesday, cutting off gas supplies to Makhachkala and southern parts of the region. Dagestan borders Chechnya, where separatist rebels have been fighting Russian forces since 1999, and violence that some believe is connected with the Chechen insurgency is increasing in the republic.
Posted by:Steve

#1  All part of the new improved shariat announced at kavkaz? The Mein Kampf was a nice touch guys. Real endearing to most people. A Neo-Nazi Wahabbi caliphate sounds like a good approximation of hell. 'Twas sick, 'twas passing strange, 'twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pathetic, 'twas pig-ugly, t'was the tolerant faith at it's logical extreme methinks - mere butchers mad, blind, deaf and dumb.
Posted by: Abu Ratcatcher to the Stars   2005-07-06 09:36  

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