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Sunday 19-May-2013                    

“Terror—a Means to Make Money

This is the English version of a 28 December 2004 interview with Dr. Paul Murphy conducted by the Center for Defense Information, Washington D.C., and published in Issue 9005 of Johnsons Russia List.  The Russian version was published in the December issue of Washington Profile internet magazine. 

 

For kavkazcenter.com’s three page rebuttal (in Russian) of the interview go to http://www.kavkazcenter.com/russ/article.php?id=28505

 

For the 17 January 2005 rebuttal in English go to http://www.chechenpress.co.uk/english/news

/2005/01/17/09.shtml  

 

PAUL MURPHY, Ph.D., is a former U.S. government senior counterterrorism official who lived, worked and traveled extensively in Russia and Central Asia between 1994 and 2004. He studied in the former Soviet Union, and worked in civil society development, higher education, and business in Russia.  As a U.S. congressional special advisor in 2002, he dealt with issues related to counterterrorism cooperation with Russia.  His latest book entitled: “Wolves of Islam, Russia and the Faces of Chechen Terror” was published by Brassey’s Inc. in December 2004.

  

Has the American position changed since September 11th, 2001, concerning Chechen separatists who Russians perceive as being part of an international terrorist network?

 

It has. I know that as Russian intelligence pursued President Yeltsin’s 1996 order to uncover Chechnya’s international connections, Khattab’s links to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban began to surface.  This ultimately lead the Kremlin to conclude that the Saudi who had earlier fought the Soviets in Afghanistan was Osama bin Laden’s representative in the North Caucasus, and that certain Arabs under Khattab’s command in Chechnya were  actually prominent al-Qaeda personnel assigned to him.  In 2002, the United States confirmed that Khattab is “connected” to Osama bin Laden. The U.S. government has also acknowledged that there is an international terrorist presence in Chechnya that has links to Osama bin Laden.  Even Aslan Maskhadov, the president of the now non-existent Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, has admitted that “international terrorist networks, including al-Qaeda, have established themselves in Chechnya.”  

 

The financial links seem to be strong and have been acknowledged by the United States. The holy war against Russia started in August 1999 by Basayev’s and Khattab’s invasion of Dagestan, has not been conducted in isolation of the financial, material, and fighter support of the supreme Islamic commander-in-chief.  It is impossible to determine the exact amount of Osama bin Laden’s contribution. The United States will only say that it has been a substantial amount of money.  Bin Laden himself has admitted personal financial investment, but he won’t tell us how much it is.  Moreover, after the seizure of the school in Beslan, North Ossetia, last September, he put out a call for Muslims worldwide to financially support the jihad against Russia.

 

I have often been told by Western observers that if Russia had just given Chechnya independence after the war between them ended in 1996, a second war--and all the terror today--could have been avoided.  I contend that such recognition would not have prevented a new war or the terror, because Udugov, Basayev, and Khattab were already conspiring to take Russian territory in Dagestan by force to carve out a new Taliban like Islamic state with Osama bin Laden’s knowledge and promise of financial help.  Recognition of Chechnya’s independence in 1997 would not have stopped that process, only accelerated it.  After all, Basayev quit his Chechen government job in July 1998 to work full time on the idea. It became his obsession, and he got millions from Osama bin Laden and others to do it.  The August 1999 invasion of Dagestan and the bombing of apartment building in Moscow and Volgodonsk a month later were the results.

 

I would like to digress briefly and comment on the theory that the FSB intentionally blew up the apartment buildings as a pretext to send Russian troops back into Chechnya and guarantee Putin’s presidential election bid.  I think this idea is pure fantasy.  I lived in Moscow at the time and heard the rumor within days after the terror attack.  The Chechen president’s inability to control the actions of extremists like Basayev and stop criminal gangs from kidnapping Russians and foreigners to sell them as slaves or collect millions of dollars in ransom—not to mention Basayev’s declaration of holy war on Russia and his invasion of Dagestan--gave the Kremlin plenty of reason to take military action against Chechnya in 1999.  Why would the FSB have needed to blow up apartment buildings as pretext?

   

But back to your question, the United States now has a much clearer picture of the personalities, ideology, and allegiances of those waging terror against Russia thanks to improved intelligence cooperation and what we have learned from our own war on terrorism. I think it would be difficult to find anyone in the U.S. government today who would deny linkage of the extremists led by Shamil Basayev, which now constitute the majority of forces fighting Russia. Basayev now calls the shots; Maskhadov is no longer relevant.

 

Basayev subscribes to the worldwide jihad misson of al-Qaeda and is conducting an ideologically motivated religious war against Russia.  In fact, if it were up to his propagandist, Movladi Udugov, Chechens would become al-Qaeda’s front line fighters. “We are ready to become the vanguard of Muslim nations and the defenders of Islam worldwide,” Udugov proclaimed to the world in 2003. He likes to boast, but the United States does worry that Osama bin Laden might be tempted one day to employ Chechens  to attack U.S. targets.  That is what drives the U.S. government to say that Chechen terrorist organizations “have been determined to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States.” 

 

Do you think then that the link you describe is a direct or indirect one?

 

Frankly, I don’t believe that classification matters much.  But if you are asking me if Basayev is taking orders from Osama bin Laden, then my answer would be “No.”  However, the relationship between them and al-Qaeda is evolving, and I believe it’s taking on new dimensions that include the potential of joint operations outside Russia. 

 

Remember the bombing of the Chechen government administrative building in Grozny in December 2002?  Shortly before that attack, French intelligence broke up a “Chechen network” based in French that was in the final stages of preparing an attack against the Russian embassy in Paris. At least three of those arrested had fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya, and trained in toxic substances with an al-Qaeda instructor in the Pankisi Gorge.  They also had links with radical Islamic terrorist cells in Germany and Great Britain, and had worked with an al-Qaeda cell in Spain to purchase and smuggle military material into Chechnya.

 

The existence of this Chechen network indicates that Basayev may have planned a terror attack abroad to roughly coincide with the Chechen government building bombing.  More importantly though, it provides the first evidence that Chechen extremists are thinking about international terror operations and are organizing with al-Qaeda’s help.

 

The 9-11 Commission report and what we now know about the airplane hijackers who crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon gives further insight into the nature of the relationship. The mastermind of the attack on America, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, had arranged to meet with Khattab in Chechnya in the spring of l997, but had trouble transiting Azerbaijan, turned around and went back to Pakistan. He then joined up with Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, who had also tried to get to Chechnya in 1997 to see Khattab, but instead spent several months in a Dagestani jail on a visa violation.  Moreover, as many as half of the 9/11 hijackers had spent time in Chechnya, fought in the first year of the second war, intended to go to fight in Chechnya before getting their U.S. assignments, or had recruited fighters for Chechnya.

 

Could you speak a little bit about the rumors that Chechens have turned up in other countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan?

 

Chechen fighters have integrated into some al-Qaeda fighting units.  Chechens were found in Afghanistan in 2001, in Pakistan in 2002 and 2004, and may be now in Iraq.

 

A Russian Duma deputy told me that Chechens captured in Afghanistan in 2001were being held at the Guantanamo detention facility.  What he really meant was that four nationals from the North Caucasus region, but not ethnic Chechens, were being held there.  All were returned home this past summer.  However, Chechens were fighting in Afghanistan.  Some were caught by the Northern Alliance and turned over directly to Russia.  The U.S. military also killed some.

 

I describe three instances in my book where Chechens fought Pakistani troops in 2002 and again in 2004.   The first time, soldiers assaulting an al-Qaeda hideout on the border of Afghanistan killed two Chechen fighters and captured a third—a fifteen-year-old boy.  The remaining fighters fled, but not before killing ten Pakistani troops in a gun battle.  Four of the Chechen fighters who got away were killed a month later at a Pakistani security checkpoint. 

 

More Chechen fighters were killed on 15 June 2004, when Pakistani troops stopped a minibus for a document check in the southern Waziristan province.  Four days earlier, Pakistani soldiers had killed twenty-five terrorists, some of whom were Chechens, in a ground and air operation against al-Qaeda and Taliban hideouts in the province.

 

Russians tell me that as many 200-300 Chechen fighters and others experienced in making suicide car bombs are currently in Iraq.  I don’t know if that is true or not.   I recently asked a returning American private security guard if he knew anything about this. He had heard lots of rumors, and he said that intelligence briefers also talked about their presence.  We won’t really know for sure until we catch or kill one.

 

Could you tell us why Chechen Women are becoming Terrorists?

 

There are four dimensions to the answer.  One is the economics of suicide terror.  It is the cheapest kind of warfare, requiring minimal monetary, material, technical, and human investment--all practical considerations to any group that is short on funding and lacks the necessary manpower to fight an effective guerrilla war.  It can also be a way to make money. For Shamil Basayev, suicide terror is a practical means of fundraising; a way to attract the financial investment of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and other Islamic extremist organizations.  Major attacks like the Dubrovka theater siege and Beslan generate huge sums of money. 

  

Second, is the killing power of suicide terror—the terrorist’s ability to target precisely and inflict high casualties.  Since the first female suicide bomber drove her explosive laden truck into a police facility four years ago, Basayev’s reign of suicide terror has killed and wounded nearly 3000 people.  I just finished doing the terror statistics in Russia for 2004.  Of the 681 people killed and 1181 wounded and missing, suicide bombing or suicide group attacks like those in Ingushetia in June and Beslan in the fall account for all but a handful of the dead and wounded.  By the way, I did not count any guerrilla skirmishes with Russian or pro-Moscow Chechen forces in these numbers.  

 

The third dimension relates to why women have been the preferred bomb delivery vehicle since 2000, although this may be changing since there were four men and only three women carrying out suicide bombings this year. The answer is that women are more expendable than men as combat assets, especially since they significantly outnumber Chechen men who are still needed to fight the guerilla war.  Moreover there are large numbers of widows who will probably never marry again and lots of single girls who may not marry either because of the shortage of men.  And then a woman has a distinct tactical advantage because she does do not arouse as much suspicion and can more easily penetrate the target than a man. The macho male Russian policeman is still ill equipped psychologically to deal with the female terrorist because he has difficulty ever imagining that a woman can be a threat.  Despite numerous female suicide bombing in Moscow, it is rare to see a policeman stop a woman and ask for her “dokumenti” (passport) unless she is very pretty and his intent is to flirt with her. 

 

The fourth dimension gets to the question of why Chechen women are willing to kill themselves. The most popular explanation is that they are taking their own lives out of revenge for being raped by a Russian soldier, the loss of a husband or another male member of the family, and a ruined life.  I could not find a single case of a woman becoming a suicide bomber because she or any member of her family, or friends, had been raped by Russian soldiers.  There are no suicide notes left to that effect, nor have parents claimed that their daughter became a shakhida because she was raped, nor have any of those suicide bombers caught alive said they planned to kill themselves because they had been raped by Russian soldiers.  This is not to say that rapes do not occasionally occur; the case of Colonel Budanov is well known.     

 

Frankly, I believe that the revenge angle--that is the idea that Chechen women are killing themselves out of grief for a dead husband or because they have lost everything in the war and are destitute--is exaggerated. This explanation is too black and white.  In the first place, one would think that revenge out of grief would generate a spontaneous act.  I know of only two women who reacted this way by arming themselves with grenades and going out into the street to hunt down those they believed were responsible for the death of their husbands.  Chechen women have a remarkable instinct of survival.  The majority refuses to give up and do not resort to suicide terror to solve their problems.

 

On the other hand, the idea that these are widows bent on revenge is a valuable propaganda tool and is aggressively promoted by those interested in putting the blame on the Kremlin for the terror in Russia today. This idea was first promoted by the leader of the Dubrovka siege and picked up by sensationalist Russian journalists who dubbed the women at Dubrovka “black widows.”  The term has been used loosely ever since to describe Chechen female suicide terrorists regardless of their marital status.  In fact, there were few widows at Dubrovka, some of the 19 women there were unmarried teenage girls, others were there with their husbands, other family members, and friends.  I say in my book that it was very much a family affair.  None were destitute.  One was a medical student; another a businesswoman; and another an unemployed actress with a job at Grozny’s university.  One lived and worked in Moscow. Few could really say that they had lost everything.

 

And then there is Zulikhan, the woman who blew herself up at a Moscow rock and beer festival in July 2003.  She apparently did so out of a need to cleanse herself of an incestuous relationship with her step brother. Zarema, who was caught in Moscow days later, told police that she had decided to become a suicide bomber so she could repay her grandmother for the jewelry she had stolen and sold to move to Moscow with her young daughter, and to redeem herself in the eyes of her family for that sin. Zarema was a widow, but her husband had not been killed fighting in the war.  She had kidnapped her daughter from her husband’s family which had taken the child to raise after the death of Zarema’s husband.  She desperately wanted to start a new life in Moscow with her daughter, but got caught by her family who shunned her. 

 

The first suicide bomber, Khava Barayeva, killed herself to inspire others to jihad.  Other women become suicide terrorists because Basayev personally asks them to, or because they genuinely believe it is a guaranteed way to get to “paradise.” 

 

I talk about these and other factors in Wolves of Islam, but the subject is going to be the primary focus of a forthcoming book called Allah’s Angels: Chechen Women and Children at War.

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TERROR CHRONOLOGY

Terror Attacks, Threats, Police Activities, Trials, and Related Information



17-May-2013 Court Sentences “Telephone Terrorist” to Two Years and Four Months

17-May-2013 NVF Accomplice Arrested

17-May-2013 Suicide Bomber Wounds Seven Policemen During House Search

17-May-2013 Two Men Wanted for “Especially Grave Crimes” Captured

17-May-2013 Arms Cache Found

16-May-2013 Arms Cache Containing Explosive Device Found

16-May-2013 Murder Suspect Captured in Rostovskaya Oblast

16-May-2013 Fighter “Blindazh” Found and Destroyed

15-May-2013 Man Arrested for Publishing Extremist Material

15-May-2013 Leaflets Supporting Boston Suspects Appear in Kazakhstan

BOSTON/KAZAKHSTAN – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

ASTANA, May 15 (RIA Novosti) – Leaflets expressing support for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects have appeared in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, which neighbors Kyrgyzstan, where the Tsarnaev brothers lived with their family before moving to the United States, regional media said on Wednesday.



14-May-2013 13 NVF “Accomplices” Voluntarily Surrender

14-May-2013 Officer of Center for Combating Extremism Gunned Down Outside Home

13-May-2013 Pistol, Ammunition, and Grenades Found in Shopping Bag

13-May-2013 Arms Cache Found

LIPETSKAYA OBLAST – FSB personnel and oblast UMVD police located a seized a cache of weapons and ammunition in a building under construction in Nizhniy Park, the city of Lipetsk.  The cache contained:



13-May-2013 Fighter “Blindazh” Uncovered

DAGESTAN – Law enforcers on 12 May found a fighter “blindazh” (facility) near the village of Echda which contained food supplies and materials for making homemade bombs. The facility on the first floor of an abandoned building near was found during a KTO (Counter-terror Operations) regime in the Tsumadinskiy District.  It contained:



13-May-2013 Chechen Leader Wants to Unblock YouTube

CHECHNYA – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

GROZNY, May 13 (RIA Novosti) – Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Monday the time was ripe to restore access to YouTube, blocked in the mainly Islamic North Caucasus republic last year for hosting the controversial film Innocence of Muslims.



13-May-2013 N. Caucasus Warlord Goes on Trial in South Russia

NORTH CAUCASUS – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

ROSTOV-ON-DON, May 13 (RIA Novosti) – A former police officer who allegedly switched sides and joined North Caucasus militants to become one of their leaders went on trial in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Monday.

 

Ali Taziyev, also known by his alias Magas, is charged with setting up an armed militant group, illegal arms trafficking, terrorism, inciting a rebellion and attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. Charges against him also include 24 counts of terrorism.



12-May-2013 Two Men Held for Possession of Grenade and Narcotics

12-May-2013 Telephone Terrorist Mines Ambulance Service

11-May-2013 Illegal Double Barrel Shotgun Seized

11-May-2013 Fighter Killed, Two Law Enforcers Wounded in Firefight

11-May-2013 Policeman and Civilian Dead in Shooting Attack

11-May-2013 Telephone Terrorists Mine Two Shopping Centers in Moscow

11-May-2013 Grenade Launcher Cache Found

10-May-2013 Carjacker/NVF Member Killed in Police Pursuit

10-May-2013 Ammunition and Rifle Parts Seized

10-May-2013 New Petition in Support of Djhokar Tsarnayev Circulating in Grozny

CHECHNYA – A new “petition” in support of Djhokar Tsarnayev is circulating in Grozny, this one though is simply asking people to “pray for Dzhokar,” not money.  RETWA readers will recall that two earlier petitions asked people to financially support Djokhar for “legal fees and medical help” (see earlier RETWA reporting). 

This new petition can be found glued to cell phone payment terminals in the center of Grozny on Rosa Lyuksemburg Street.  The petition asks people for their moral support for Djhokar and not to remain “indifferent” to his situation, because “the more people who know the truth, the greater chance he will be treated fairly.” 



10-May-2013 Ammunition Cache Seized From Maikop Man

10-May-2013 Telephone Terrorist Apprehended

09-May-2013 Seven Fighters and Policeman Killed in Two Spetz-Operations

09-May-2013 NVF Member Killed; Bomb Found in His Vehicle

08-May-2013 NVF “Accomplice” Arrested

08-May-2013 Explosives Cache and “Jihad Book” Found in Attic

08-May-2013 Owners of Homes in Which Bombs Were Found Arrested

08-May-2013 Woman Turns in 23 Rounds of Ammunition

08-May-2013 Russia Tightens Security During Victory Day Festivities

RUSSIA – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) - More than 160,000 police officers and about 13,000 servicemen will be involved in maintaining security during nationwide Victory Day celebrations in Russia on Thursday, the Interior Ministry said.

 

Victory Day that Russia celebrates on May 9 marks the final defeat of Nazi Germany by the Soviet Union in World War II. This year, some 10 million people are expected to attend over 8,500 festive events, including 24 military parades, in more than 4,000 Russian cities and towns.



08-May-2013 RF Frustrated by Offer to Visit Guantanamo Without Meeting Russian Inmate

RUSSIA/US - The article below appeared in today's English language edition of ITAR-TASS.

 

MOSCOW, May 8 (Itar-Tass) - Russia is dissatisfied with the U.S. proposal to visit the Guantanamo special prison without meeting its Russian inmate Ravil Mingazov, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s commissioner for human rights, democracy and the rule of law Konstantin Dolgov said on Wednesday, May 8.



07-May-2013 NVF “Accomplice” Arrested

07-May-2013 Sappers Detonate Homemade Explosive Devices Found in Three Homes

06-May-2013 Relative of Boston Bombers RIA Journalist Said Khusein Tsarnayev Detained

DAGESTAN – At 11:20 yesterday, border police detained Said-Khusein Tsarnayev, a “distant” relative of accused Boston bombers Tamerlan and Djhokar Tsarnayev, at the “Gerzel” police post on the border between Dagestan and Chechnya. 

 

According to Said himself, a photo correspondent for RIA Novosti for the North Caucasus, he was returning home to Chechnya from Makhachkala on a “marshutniy taksi” after covering the Anzhi-Rubin football match in the city when police on the Dagestani side of the border post asked the men on the Gazel van he was traveling in to present their passports.



06-May-2013 Terrorists Target Policeman with Car Bomb

06-May-2013 Boston Bombing Suspects ‘Got What They Deserved’ - Kadyrov

BOSTON/CHECHNYA –The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

GROZNY, May 6 (RIA Novosti) – Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Monday he had no plans to offer any assistance to the suspects in last month’s deadly bombing in Boston, saying that the two brothers “got what they deserved.”



06-May-2013 Kadyrov: Brothers Tsarnayev are the “Most Evil of Devils” CHECHNYA – Chechnya’s President Ramzan Kadyrov made the comments reported in the RIA Novosti report above during a meeting with school directors today.  He noted that he had been asked multiple times on his blog why he hadn’t come out in support of the brothers Tsarnayev.  He told today’s audience that he had needed time to study the information about the brothers and had come to the conclusion that they are terrorists—“the most evil of devils”-- and belonged to a terrorist group, and therefore he would “not utter one word” in their support.

06-May-2013 Boston Bombing Suspect’s Mother Wants Body Sent to Russia — Report

BOSTON/DAGESTAN - The article below appeared in today's English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

WASHINGTON, May 6 (RIA Novosti) – The mother of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev over the weekend called the Massachusetts funeral home where his body is currently being held and said she wants his remains to be shipped to Russia, the director of the facility said Monday.



05-May-2013 Driver Arrested for Illegal Possession of Stun-Gun Pistol

05-May-2013 Arms Cache Found

04-May-2013 Telephone Terrorist Mines Café

03-May-2013 Man Sentenced to 5.5 Years for Illegal Firearms and NVF Membership

03-May-2013 New Petition in Support of Djhokhar Tsarnayev Being Circulated in Grozny and Bishkek

02-May-2013 Makhachkala Terrorists Target Government Official with Car Bomb

02-May-2013 Buinaksk Car Bomb Targets Police Inspector

02-May-2013 Video Clips of Makhachkala Bomb Blast on YouTube

02-May-2013 Video on Tonight's Bombing of Malik Otrushkhanov’s Home Available

02-May-2013 Box Blows Up in Woman’s Hands While Cleaning Yard

02-May-2013 North Caucasus Militants’ Losses Down in 2013

NORTH CAUCASUS – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

MOSCOW, May 2 (RIA Novosti) – Russian law enforcements have killed 73 alleged members of the Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus over the first three months of 2013, a police spokesman said.

Eighty-seven alleged militants were slain over the same period of 2012, police reported at the time.



01-May-2013 Jihadists' Street Bomb in Makhachkala Kills Two Children DAGESTAN – While investigation of suspected Boston bombers Tamerlan and Djhokar Tsarnayev continues in the United States, in Dagestan the Islamic Jihad has taken more lives where bombings are a weekly occurrence.

 

At around 12:20 today, a street bomb in a box at the corner of Irchi Kazaka and Yarakskogo Streets near the central market in Makhchakala claimed the lives of three people; two of them children (some reporting says 12 and 14-years-of age; other reporting says 15 and 17).  An adult man died in the hospital from shrapnel wounds, and a fourth person, possibly a woman, was also hospitalized.



01-May-2013 Jihadists Bomb Police Checkpoint

01-May-2013 Three Policemen Killed and Two Wounded in Shooting Attack

01-May-2013 Extremist Related Crimes Tripled in Dagestan in 2012

01-May-2013 This Morning’s Bombing Probably Meant to Threaten Store Owner

30-Apr-2013 Car Bomb Turned Out to be Fake

30-Apr-2013 Arms Cache Found

30-Apr-2013 Suicide Belt Found on Man Killed in Spetz-Operation

30-Apr-2013 “TSEP” Denies it Tracked Tamerlan Tsarnayev During 2012 Visit to Dagestan

30-Apr-2013 Old US-Russia ‘Suspicions’ Improving – Obama

BOSTON/RUSSIA – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

WASHINGTON, April 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has been “very cooperative” in helping the United States investigate the Boston Marathon bombings and lingering suspicions between Washington and Moscow dating back to the Cold War are improving, US President Barack Obama said Tuesday.



29-Apr-2013 Fighter Killed was Kizlyaryurtovskiy NVF Explosives Expert

29-Apr-2013 Kadyrov: Fighters in Chechnya Supported by the West

29-Apr-2013 Tamerlan Tsarnayev Linked to Islamic Extremists Makhmud Nidal and William Plotnikov

BOSTON/DAGESTAN – According to a source in Dagestan's Center for Combating Extremism, Russian special services began taking special notice of suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnayev at the beginning of 2011 in connection with the earlier detention in Dagestan of Canadian citizen William Plotnikov and later, in 2012, when Tamerlan was seen in Makhachkala, Dagestan, in the company of Makhmud Nidal, a person believed to be recruiting for the armed “underground” in Dagestan.   



29-Apr-2013 Jury Passes Guilty Verdict in Chechen War Colonel Murder Case

CHECHNYA – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

MOSCOW, April 30 (RIA Novosti) – The jury at the Moscow City Court on Monday handed down a guilty verdict to a Chechen man accused of murdering former Col. Yury Budanov, who had served jail time for war crimes in Chechnya.



29-Apr-2013 Obama, Putin Discuss Boston Bombing on Phone

BOSTON/RUSSIA - The article below appeared in today's English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

WASHINGTON, April 29 (RIA Novosti) – US President Barack Obama told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a telephone call Monday that he appreciates Russia’s assistance in the investigation of the deadly Boston Marathon attack earlier this month, the White House said in a statement.



29-Apr-2013 US Knew Tsarnaevs Were Dangerous - Top Russian MP

BOSTON/RUSSIA – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

MOSCOW, April 29 (RIA Novosti) – A senior Russian lawmaker claimed on Twitter on Monday that the US authorities had deliberately been inactive over the Tsarnaev brothers, although they had long known that the suspected Boston Marathon bombers posed a threat.



28-Apr-2013 Two NVF Members Killed in Spetz-Operation

28-Apr-2013 Land Mine Kills Two Contract Military Servicemen

28-Apr-2013 Fighters Fire on Military Servicemen

28-Apr-2013 Older Boston Bombing Suspect Discussed ‘Jihad’ with Mother - Report

BOSTON/DAGESTAN – The article below was published in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

  

MOSCOW, April 28 (RIA Novosti) - The older suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings vaguely discussed “jihad,” a Muslim holy war against infidels, with his mother in a 2011 phone conversation secretly recorded by Russian officials, CBS News reported on Sunday.



27-Apr-2013 Three Fighters Killed in Failed Traffic Stop DAGESTAN – Last night, RETWA reported that an NVF fighter had been killed in a late night firefight with police in the Khivskiy District and that two had escaped.  New information this morning indicates that three people were killed in a failed traffic stop of a white VAZ-21014 vehicle on the three kilometer “Khiv-Ashaga-Yarag” road at 23:00. 

27-Apr-2013 Suicide Belt Found in Missing Woman’s House

27-Apr-2013 Zubeidat Tsarnayeva: Husband Hospitalized in “Critical Condition”

27-Apr-2013 Boston Bombing Suspects’ Mom Was in US Terrorist Database – Reports

BOSTON/DAGESTAN – The article below appeared in yesterday’s English language edition of RIA Novosti

 

WASHINGTON, April 26 (RIA Novosti)—The mother of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers was added to a US government terrorism database more than a year before last week’s attack, and she is suspected of having helped radicalize at least one of her sons, US media cited officials as saying Friday.



27-Apr-2013 Video of Zubeidat and Anzor Tsarnayev Press Conference (in Russian)

27-Apr-2013 Firefight Between Law Enforcers and NVF Fighters Underway

27-Apr-2013 Fighters Flee into Forest After Firefight

27-Apr-2013 12 Members of Khizb ut-Takhrir Arrested at Police Post

27-Apr-2013 Explosion Heard Near or in Buinaksk

26-Apr-2013 Bomb Transported by Terrorists Killed Them DAGESTAN – RETWA readers will recall our report last night about a shootout between NVF fighters and law enforcers near the village of Shamkhal in Makhachkala and the resulting deaths of three fighters.  New information today indicates that the fighters were transporting at least one homemade bomb in the VAZ 2114 car they were traveling in. 

26-Apr-2013 Female NVF "Accomplice" Arrested

26-Apr-2013 Anzor Tsarnayev: Tamerlan Was With Me All the Time in Russia BOSTON/DAGESTAN/KYRGYSTAN – At a press conference in Makhachkala, Anzor Tsarnayev, the father of alleged Boston bombers Tamerlana and Djhokar Tsarayev, told journalists that Tamerlan came to the United States on an expired Kyrgystan passport and that he had applied to the embassy of Kyrgystan in Washington to issue him a new passport, but they denied him citizenship.

26-Apr-2013 Boston Bombers Susceptible to Radicalization, Say Experts

BOSTON/RUSSIA/CHECHNYA – The article below appeared in the 25 April English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

WASHINGTON, April 25 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) – Long before twin bombs rocked the Boston Marathon last week, the trajectories of the suspects’ lives had already made them susceptible to radicalized ideology that could turn violent, psychology and terrorism experts told RIA Novosti.



26-Apr-2013 Anzor Tsarnayev Flies By Himself to the U.S. to Collect Tamerlan’s Body

26-Apr-2013 US Lawmakers Urged to Work with Russia After Boston Bombings

UNITED STATES/RUSSIA – The article below appeared in today’s English Language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

WASHINGTON, April 26 (by Karin Zeitvogel for RIA Novosti) - US lawmakers were urged Friday to set aside differences with Moscow and strengthen cooperation in the fight against extremists from the volatile North Caucasus region of Russia, after two brothers with roots to the area allegedly carried out deadly bomb attacks at last week’s Boston Marathon.



26-Apr-2013 Did Tamerlan Tsarnayev’s Mother Lead Him to Radical Islam?

BOSTON/DAGESTAN – RIA Novosti reports that American authorities suspect that Zubeidat Tsarnayeva, the mother of the suspected Boston Bombers Tamerlan and Djhokar Tsarnayev, influenced Tamerlan in the direction of radicalism.  Frans Press cites Congressman Charles Ruppersberger (D-Maryland) as saying “We are looking into the possibility that she (Tsarnayeva) helped push the older son toward radicalism, and even perhaps that she has connections with other people or terrorist groups.”



26-Apr-2013 Zubeidat and Anzor Tsarnayev Reportedly Gone Into Hiding BOSTON/DAGESTAN/ CHECHNYA – According to Kheda Saratova, a human rights activist and head of the “information agency” “Obektiv” in Chechnya, the parents of alleged Boston bombers Tamerlan and Djhokar Tsarnayev have left Dagestan and gone into hiding.

26-Apr-2013 Man Find WWII Unexploded Ordinance

26-Apr-2013 Fighter Killed, Two Escape in Shootout with Police

26-Apr-2013 FSB: 140 Suspected Extremists Detained in Moscow Mosque MOSCOW/NORTH CAUCASUS –            The FSB’s press service announced that agents have taken into custody 140 suspects of extremist organizations at the “Dar-ul-Arkam” mosque in Moscow. The detentions were apparently made this evening, probably after Friday prayers. According to the FSB the detainees might be wanted of suspicion of extremist criminal acts or terrorism related crimes.

25-Apr-2013 Deputy Administrator of Chermen Assassinated INGUSHETIA – This morning at 11:00 in Nazran, and unknown gunmen fired on the Hyundai in which 58-year-old Idris Tarkoyev, the deputy administrator of the settlement of Chermen, Prigorodniy District, North Ossetia, was traveling. 

25-Apr-2013 Fighters Killed in Sogratl Operation Identified DAGESTAN – The two NVF fighters killed yesterday by law enforcers in the village of Sogratl, Gunibskiy District, have been identified as Gadzhimurat Khabibov, born in 1986, a resident of the Gunibskiy District, and wanted.  

25-Apr-2013 Relative: Anzor Tsarnayev May Come Alone to the U.S. to Take Son’s Body Home BOSTON/DAGESTAN – Radio “Golos Rossiya” has reported that Anzor Tsarnayev, the father of Tamerlan and Djhokar Tsarnayev will be flying to the United States to bring Tamerlan’s body back to Dagestan...Earlier reporting says both Anzor and his wife Zubeidat would be going to the U.S., but Zubeidat faces arrest on shoplifting charges so perhaps she changed her mind.

25-Apr-2013 Russia, US Should Cooperate More Closely on Terror - Putin

RUSSIA/UNITED STATES – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

MOSCOW, April 25 (RIA Novosti) – Last week’s tragedy in Boston should prompt Russia and the United States to cooperate more closely in dealing with such threats, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his televised question-and-answer session on Thursday.



25-Apr-2013 Three Fighters Killed in a Shootout with Police

25-Apr-2013 Boston Bombing Suspects Targeted NYC – Officials

BOSTON/NEW YORK – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.  

 

RETWA comment: The scenario of an attack in the city by a terrorist of North Caucasus origin should not have taken the NYPD by surprise as Dr. Paul Murphy, the author or Wolves of Islam: Russia and the Faces of Chechen Terror (2005) and Allah’s Angels: Chechen Women in War (2010) shared the possibility of such a scenario with NYPD Assistant Commissioner Larry Sanchez as early as October 2010. 

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WASHINGTON, April 25 (RIA Novosti) – The two brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing last week planned to follow up the attack by detonating as many as six explosive devices in New York City’s Times Square, officials said Thursday.



25-Apr-2013 Petition in Defense of Djokhar Tsarnayev Circulating in Grozny CHECHNYA – Kavkazskiy Uzel reports this evening that a anonymous public petition in support of Djokhar Tsarnayev is being circulated in Grozny.  The “petition in defense of Djokhar,” (found glued and taped to walls of buildings, at ATM machines, kiosks for making payments for cell phone use, and other public places such as the large “Berkat” shopping center in central Grozny) says

25-Apr-2013 Putin: We Cannot Help Investigation/Kadyrov: West Supported Terrorists in Chechnya

BOSTON/RUSSIA/CHECHNYA – Russia’s President Putin today told journalists today that the “special services” of Russia are unable to provide any information of “operational significance” regarding the Tsarnayev brothers in as much as they didn’t live in Russia and were only occasionally in the country.



24-Apr-2013 Spetz-Operation Targets Fighters in Sogratl DAGESTAN – A KTO (Counter-terror Operations) has been imposed on the settlement of Sogratl, Gunibskiy District, in connection with a spetz-operation targeting two NVF fighters in a private house there.  Negotiations with those inside resulted at 12:20 with the release of two unidentified woman and a two-year-old child from the dwelling.

24-Apr-2013 Visitor to Mosque Gunned Down

24-Apr-2013 North Caucasus Law Enforcers Say Tamerlan Tsarnayev Had No Contact With NC Terrorists

24-Apr-2013 Son of Village Administrator Identified as Dead Fighter

24-Apr-2013 Bombing Suspects’ Mother Could Face Arrest in US

BOSTON/DAGESTAN – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

WASHINGTON, April 24 (RIA Novosti) – Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects, could be arrested if she returns to the United States as she is expected to do this week.



24-Apr-2013 Boston Bombing May Boost US-Russia Cooperation - Experts

UNITED STATES/RUSSIA – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

WASHINGTON, April 24 (By Carl Schreck for RIA Novosti) – More than a decade after Russia offered staunch support to the United States following the 9/11 terror attacks, bilateral relations could receive another boost as US authorities investigate two brothers with ties to Russia’s turbulent North Caucasus region in connection with last week’s deadly Boston Marathon bombing, analysts and security experts said.



24-Apr-2013 Tsarnaev Brothers' Aunt Says She is Threatened

BOSTON/CANADA – The article below appeared in the April 22 English language edition of ITAR-TASS.

 

OTTAWA, April 22 (Itar-Tass) - Maret Tsarnaeva, aunt of Tamerlan and Dhokhar suspected of committing the act of terror during the Boston marathon, said she received threats by telephone. She lives in Toronto, Canada.



24-Apr-2013 Tsarayeva Sisters Say They “Feel Exhausted”

BOSTON/NEW JERSEY – The attorneys for Bela Tsarnayeva and Alina Tsarnayeva, the sisters of Boston terrorists Tamerlan and Djokhar Tsarnayev, told journalists on Tuesday that they “feel exhausted.”  “We are sad for those who suffered, for the innocent people after this heartless act,” their statement read. “We don’t have any answers,” about what happened they said, and asked journalists “to respect their privacy during this difficult time.”



24-Apr-2013 Mother of Alleged Bombers: 'Boston is a Big Show, a Spectacle. Americans Love a Show'

BOSTON/DAGESTAN – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition on the kavkazcenter.com website, long seen as one of the major websites providing propaganda for Islamic jihadists in the North Caucasus.   Note the title of the article as it appeared on the website.

 

Publication time: 24 April 2013, 02:38

The FBI continues to keep in secret the investigation of bombing in Boston on April 15. During the silence of the authorities the American press publishes bits of information about the case that the US authorities did not comment on.



23-Apr-2013 Hit List of Policemen Found in Terrorist Cache

23-Apr-2013 Russian Police Arrest Suspected Belgorod Shooter

BELGOROD – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

MOSCOW, April 23 (RIA Novosti) – Police in southwest Russia detained on Tuesday the man suspected of shooting six people dead in the city of Belgorod, the Interior Ministry said.

 

“The suspect was arrested during the attempt to flee the cordoned-off area on a cargo train,” a ministry spokesman told RIA Novosti.



23-Apr-2013 In Small Boston Diaspora, Echoes of Chechnya

BOSTON - The article below appeared in today's English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

NEEDHAM, Massachusetts, April 22 (By Carl Schreck for RIA Novosti) – Echoes of Chechnya are everywhere at this small suburban Boston homestead.

 

Traditional ram’s wool hats hang on the walls; a computer monitor glows with the green of the Chechen flag; and the sapling of a medlar, an ancient fruit-bearing tree rare in America but common in the North Caucasus, awaits summer in a backyard garden.



23-Apr-2013 Chechnya’s Counter Statistics for lst Quarter 2013

23-Apr-2013 Bomb Explodes Outside Buinaksk Mosque

22-Apr-2013 Explosive Device Wounds Two Military Servicemen

22-Apr-2013 Moscow Interpol Office Has No Information on Tsarnayev Brothers

22-Apr-2013 Interview with Tsarnayev Neighbors in Kyrgystan Sheds Light on Family BOSTON/KYRGYSTAN/CHECHNYA – As new information continues to trickle in, we are getting a better picture of the Tsarnayev family.  Yesterday, RETWA reported that the family had been deported to Kyrgystan in 1944 and lived in the city of Tokmak until 2001 when they moved to Dagestan. A mir24.tv interview with Nadezhda Nazarenko,  a neighbor to the Tsarnayev family when they lived in Kyrgystan, sheds a little more light on the family’s life there.

22-Apr-2013 North Caucasus Jihadists Deny Links to Tsarnayev Brothers

BOSTON/NORTH CAUCASUS – The website www.korrespondent.net is reporting that the North Caucasus terrorist website Kavkazcenter.com (now accessible) has released a statement via Twitter denying any participation in the Boston bombings carried out by the brothers Tsarnayev.  It reportedly states that during the six months Tamerlan Tsarnayev was in Dagestan in 2012, he never established contact with any mujahedeen (those fighting Russia). Moreover, the (North Caucasus) fighters do not consider the United States their enemy; they are fighting exclusively with Russia and are not carrying out attacks civilian targets, the tweet reportedly said.



22-Apr-2013 Boston Bombers’ Profile: Djokhar Born in Kyrgystan, Tamerlan in Kalmykia, Russia

22-Apr-2013 Bomb Reported in St. Petersburg School

22-Apr-2013 Sapper Attempting to Destroy Suspected Bomb in Bishkek

22-Apr-2013 Six Dead in West Russia Shooting Spree

BELGOROD – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

MOSCOW, April 22 (RIA Novosti) – Six people were shot dead in the city of Belgorod in southwest Russia on Monday afternoon, police said.

 

Police said the assailant opened “random fire” at about 2 p.m. (10:00 GMT), before fleeing in the vehicle in which he had arrived at the scene. 



21-Apr-2013 Two Homemade Bombs Found and Destroyed in Nalchik KABARDINO-BALKARIA –  Law enforcers have uncovered and destroyed a homemade bomb in a buried cache at a location 200 meters from apartment buildings on Atazhukina Street in Nalchik.  The bomb consisted of two (200 gram) canisters of trotil (TNT), an electronic detonator, and shrapnel. It was to be remotely detonated by a Motorola radio. The device was in a 10 liter container which also contained two VOG-25 grenade launcher projectiles, RGD-5 grenades, an RGN grenade, UZRGM fuses, two detonators, and more than 200 rounds of ammunition, medicine, conserved food products, and extremist religious literature.

21-Apr-2013 Six Homemade Bombs Found in Gimry

21-Apr-2013 RPG-22 Found at Abandoned Farm

21-Apr-2013 Tsarnayev Family Lived in Kyrgystan from 1944-2001 BOSTON/CHECHNYA/KYRGYSTAN – In an exclusive interview with Rossiskaya gazeta today, Adnan Dzhabrailov, leader of the Chechen diaspora in Kirgiziya (Kyrgystan), told the newspaper that the suspected Boston bombers Tamerlan and Djokar Tsarnayev, while "not citizens of Kirgiziya," were nevertheless born in Kirgiziya.   

21-Apr-2013 Bombing Methodology ‘Identical’ to Chechen Rebels, Motivation Unclear

BOSTON/CHECHNYA – The article below was published by USNI News on April 19, 2013.  Part of the article is based on an interview with Dr. Paul Murphy, author of two books on Chechnya--Allah’s Angels: Chechen Women in War (2010) and Wolves of Islam: Russia and the Faces of Chechen Terror (2004).

 

By USNI News Editor

Though the motives of Boston bombing suspects—brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev—remain unclear, their “methodologies are identical” to terrorism attacks in Chechnya, a U.S. counterterrorism and North Caucasus expert told USNI News on Friday.

 

“The same scenario occurs frequently in the North Caucasus, using a single bomb, often in a trash can, then when emergency services arrive, a second bomb goes off, sometimes a third one,” said Paul J. Murphy, author of Allah’s Angels: Chechen Women in War.



21-Apr-2013 Russian Law Enforcement Says It Has No Data on Boston Bombers

BOSTON/RUSSIA – A source in the “Russian law enforcement structure” told ITAR-TASS today that the “structure” does not have any information on a tie between Boston bombing suspects Tamerlan and Djokhar Tsarnayev and the “band underground” in the North Caucasus.  “The information about possible connections with the band underground in the North Caucasus, and participation with Doka Umarov, which the SMI (media) is writing about, we don’t have,” the unidentified source told ITAR-TASS.



20-Apr-2013 Update: Profile of Tsarnayev Family BOSTON/DAGESTAN – Vesti.ru reports that the Tsarnayev family, arriving in Makhachkala from Kirgiziya in 2001, was registered as living in the village of Khyushet, but in fact lived in different apartments in the city, constantly moving from one apartment to another.   Anzor, the 47-year-old father and a former Chechen policeman, lived in a five story apartment building on Koshevogo Street and opened a business there, but it soon failed.  RETWA reported yesterday that Tamerlan and Dkhokar had studied at School No. 1 in Makhachkala. The Russian media is reporting today that this is a “prestigious” school. The boys’ sisters Alina also studied there in the fifth grade, and Bela in the 7th. But in March 2002, the family left for the U.S.  In the words of the school’s current director Emirmagomed Davudov, no one at the school can remember anything about them.  Acccording to the uncle Ruslan Tsarni, Dzhokhar was born in Dagestan. The family is now refusing to speak further with journalists and has reportedly gone into hiding.

20-Apr-2013 Woman Sentenced to 10 Years for Selling Kidnapped Child

20-Apr-2013 Terrorists Target OVD Chief with Explosive Device

20-Apr-2013 Father of Suspects in Boston Bombings Wants to 'Seek Justice

BOSTON/MOSCOW – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

MOSCOW/MAKHACHKALA, April 20 (RIA Novosti) – Russian father of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings hopes to travel to the United States and seek justice for his sons, who he believes, were set up.



20-Apr-2013 U.S., Russia to Cooperate in Boston Bombings Probe - Kremlin

US/RUSSIA – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of RIA Novosti.

 

MOSCOW, April 20 (RIA Novosti) - United States and Russia might join efforts in the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings if the suspects' ties to Russia are confirmed, the Kremlin’s spokesman said on Saturday.



20-Apr-2013 Suspects in Boston Terrorist Attack Came from Well-to-Do Family

DAGESTAN – The article below appeared in today’s English language edition of Itar-Tass.

MAKHACHKALA, April 20 (Itar-Tass) - The Tsarnayevs family, two members of which, brothers Tamerlan and Johar are suspected of being behind the recent terrorist attack in United States’ Boston, came to live in Dagestan’s capital Makhachkala from Kyrgyzstan in 2001 and changed several domiciles before emigrating to the United States.



19-Apr-2013 Emerging Details on Boston Bomber Suspects Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnayev BOSTON/CHECHNYA/KIRGIZIYA – According to preliminary information in the Russian media, the suspect still at large in the Boston terror attack, 19-year-old Dzhokar Tsarnayev (also spelled Tsarayev), was a student (in the first class) at School No. 1 in Makhachkala, Dagestan, in 2001 for one year, then moved to the U.S. as a refugee.  The school’s director Irina Bandurina has confirmed that information, but says she cannot remember any details about him because there were a hundred or so students in his class. There is also information that he was not from Chechnya, but from the former Soviet republic of Kirgizstan.  He reportedly moved with his family to Makhachkala, Dagestan, where his father Anzor still lives.  The brothers then went to Turkey where they received refugee status in the U.S.  Dzhokar’s page on the Russian “VKontakte” social networking site says that he went to school in Makhachkala from 1999-2001 then attended Cambridge Ringe & Latin School in Boston.

19-Apr-2013 More Details on Suspected Terrorists Tamerlan and Djhokar Tsarnayev

BOSTON/CHECHNYA – President Ramzan Kadyrov’s press secretary Alvi Karimov today told journalists that the suspected Boston terrorists Tamerlan and Djhokar Tsarnayev left Chechnya "a long time ago" and never returned.  According to Karimov, the Tsarnayev family (originally from Kirgiziya) left Chechnya and moved to another “region of the Russian Federation and after that never returned to Chechnya.”  Then for a time they lived in Kazakhstan, and from there they went to the USA, where members of the family received housing.”  Neither Tamerlan or Djhokar have any kind of a criminal record in Chechnya and were never wanted for anything. 



19-Apr-2013 Boston Terrorists Should Not Be Linked in Kyrgystan

19-Apr-2013 NVF Arms Cache Found

19-Apr-2013 Illegal Kalashnikov Seized from Valerik Resident

19-Apr-2013 Putin Informed of Possible Chechen Roots of Suspects Linked to Boston Blasts

18-Apr-2013 KTO Lifted in Pravoberezhniy District

18-Apr-2013 Fighter Base Found

17-Apr-2013 Arms Cache Found in Maiskiy District

17-Apr-2013 Second KB Arms Cache Found

17-Apr-2013 Case Against NVF “Accomplice” Sent to Court

17-Apr-2013 Security Camera at Television Station Triggers Bomb Alert

17-Apr-2013 Telephone Terrorist Mined St. Petersburg Train Station

16-Apr-2013 Udmurtiya Police Sergeant Abramov Buried Today

16-Apr-2013 Explosives and Firearms Confiscated in KB in 2013

15-Apr-2013 Forestry Official Gunned Down Outside Workplace

15-Apr-2013 Ramazan Abdulatipov Demanding Accountability from Officials for Fighting Terrorism

15-Apr-2013 NC Counter-Terror Statistics for lst Quarter 2013

14-Apr-2013 Arms Cache Found in Vedenskiy District

14-Apr-2013 Arms Cache Found in Nazran

14-Apr-2013 Automatic Rifles and Ammunition Found on Bus from Chechnya

14-Apr-2013 On Duty Police Colonel Commits Suicide

14-Apr-2013 Russian Woman Who Converted to Islam and Dagestan Women Arrested

12-Apr-2013 Two Additional KTO Regimes Imposed on Republic Settlements

12-Apr-2013 Two Guards Found Executed in Former Military Camp

12-Apr-2013 Former NVF Member Placed on Wanted List

12-Apr-2013 Terror Attack on Police in Buinaksk Reported

11-Apr-2013 Untsukulskiy District Spetz-Operation Postponed Until Dawn

11-Apr-2013 Significant Arms Cache Found

11-Apr-2013 Homemade Bomb Disabled

10-Apr-2013 Law Enforcers Searching Forest to Prevent 10 April Terror Attack

10-Apr-2013 Police Searching Lubyanka Subway Station for Bomb

09-Apr-2013 Four Fighters Killed in Spetz-Operation Identified

09-Apr-2013 Sappers Destroy Booby Trap Bomb on Arms Cache

09-Apr-2013 Yevkurov: Fighters Planned Terror Acts and Attacks on Police and Businessmen

09-Apr-2013 Explosive Device Kills Two in Bishkek

08-Apr-2013 Terrorists Target Policeman and Family with Car Bomb

08-Apr-2013 Seven Law Enforcers Arrested for Multiple Murders of Colleagues

08-Apr-2013 Four Kilogram Bomb Located and Destroyed

08-Apr-2013 Kizlyar KTO Lifted This Evening

08-Apr-2013 Four Fighters and Policeman Killed in Dolakovo Spetz-Operation

07-Apr-2013 Sniper Rifle with Scope Found in House of NVF Member

07-Apr-2013 Policeman Wounded in Engagement with Fighters

07-Apr-2013 Head of Birthing Hospital Member of Human Trafficking Gang

07-Apr-2013 Telephone Terrorist “Mines” Huge Business Complex

05-Apr-2013 “Telephone Terrorist” Fined 15,000 Rubles

05-Apr-2013 Buried Bomb Found 500 Meters from Apartment Complex

05-Apr-2013 Police Captain Wounded in Shooting Attack

05-Apr-2013 Nurmagomed Khirayev to be Tried for Murders of Five Hunters and Policeman