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| Bad guys looking to set up a base in Kazakhstan |
| 2005-08-17 |
| International terrorist organisations are seeking to create training bases on the territory of Kazakhstan. Nartai Dutbayev, chairman of the KNB (National Security Committee,) has stated this today, August 17, in Aktau during the "Caspian-Antiterror-2005" command post exercises, KZ-today correspondent reports. "Last year the KNB neutralised activities of a clandestine terrorist organisation," - he said. That organisation was connected to Al Qaeda and "planned to create terrorist training camps on the territory of Kazakhstan. During the investigation it was established that separate members of that organisation had been involved in the terrorist acts of last summer and spring in Uzbekistan," - N. Dutbayev said. There were Kazakhstani citizens among the group members. Besides, N. Dutbayev said that "in the last 4 years foreign partners received from the Kazakhstani secret services 20 members of terrorist organisations and members of illegal armed gangs." 300 kilos of explosives and 94 firearms were confiscated last year. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |