Wednesday 10-Mar-2010                    

08-Mar-2010 NVF Fighter Valeriy Yetezov Killed

08-Mar-2010 Fighter and “Accomplice” Arrested

07-Mar-2010 More Details Emerge on the 2 March Spetz-Operation in Yekazhyevo

INGUSHETIA - The remaining NVF fighters killed in the 2 March spetz-operation in the settlement of Yekazhyevo have been identified.  Besides Said Buryatsky (see earlier RETWA reporting), the brothers Tukhan, Akhmet, Magomet and Nazir Kartoyev died as well.  B.A. Kalgiyev as well as A. B. Kodzoyev (who is said to be an NVF financier and an employee of the treasury of Ingushetia) died too.

07-Mar-2010 Multiple Weapons Caches Found

KABARDINO-BALKARIA – Friday night, Kabardino-Balkaria police arrested a 47-year-old male resident from the settlement of Nartan, Chegemsky District, for illegal possession of firearms and explosives.  Police seized the following items:

--1 Mosina Carbine

--1 6 mm gas pistol made in Italy

--Ammunition for a PM pistol

--2 Communication radios

07-Mar-2010 Fighter Islamudin Alikuliyev Killed in Spetz-Operation

DAGESTAN – At 09:30 on Saturday, FSB personnel surrounded NVF fighter 22-year-old Islamudin Alikuliyev in a garage at a meat factory in Derbent and demanded that he surrender.  A shootout followed in which Alikuliyev was killed. 

07-Mar-2010 Homemade Bomb and Explosives Cache Found

KABARDINO-BALKARIA – On Thursday, Baksan police found and disarmed a homemade bomb at a mosque under construction in the city center.  The bomb consisted of three VOG-17 projectiles.  Sappers disabled the device.

07-Mar-2010 Homemade Bomb Found in Graveyard

07-Mar-2010 Man Voluntarily Surrenders Brother's Kalashnikov

CHECHNYA – A 38-year-old resident of the Shelkovsky District voluntarily handed over to police the Kalashnikov rifle which had belonged to his deceased brother and which he had been hiding for 10 years.

07-Mar-2010 Explosion Kills One, Wounds Several

GEORGIA – One person is dead and several others have been wounded as a result of an explosion this morning in the yard of a resident in the village of Kumistavi, Vansky District. 

05-Mar-2010 More Details on the Death of Said Buryatskiy

05-Mar-2010 Court Reviewing Suspected Terrorists' Right To Jury Trials

04-Mar-2010 Said Buryatskiy Confirmed Killed in Spetz-Operation

04-Mar-2010 SKP Investigator Killed

04-Mar-2010 NVF Fighter Killed

04-Mar-2010 Police Still Seeking Fighters in Urus-Martanovsky District

04-Mar-2010 Malgobetsky Resident Arrested in Moscow

04-Mar-2010 Fighter Killed After Wounding Policemen

03-Mar-2010 More Details on Yesterday’s Yekazhyevo Spetz-Operation

03-Mar-2010 Homemade Bomb Wounds Military Serviceman

03-Mar-2010 Two Policemen Wounded in Traffic Stop

03-Mar-2010 Two NVF Accomplices Arrested

02-Mar-2010 Car Bomb Wounds Policeman

02-Mar-2010 Six Fighters Killed in Spetz-Operation

02-Mar-2010 SKP Announces Creation of Unit to Search for the Missing

02-Mar-2010 Bomb Detonates in Assembly

28-Feb-2010 Roadside Bomb Wounds Policeman

28-Feb-2010 Women in Possession of Explosive Components Arrested

28-Feb-2010 Policeman Dead, Second Wounded in Attack

28-Feb-2010 Freight Train Attacked

28-Feb-2010 Policeman’s House Attacked

28-Feb-2010 Court Baliff Shot and Killed

28-Feb-2010 Policeman Wounded in Shooting

26-Feb-2010 Two Border Guards Wounded

26-Feb-2010 Store Owner Dead, Seller Wounded in Attack

26-Feb-2010 Bomb Detonates on Kavkaz Federal Highway

26-Feb-2010 Booby Trap Wounds OMON Commander

25-Feb-2010 Former Fighter Arrested

25-Feb-2010 NVF “Accomplice” Arrested

25-Feb-2010 Reports that Estimorova’s Murderer Identified Found Suspicious

CHECHNYA - Human rights organizations are reacting with suspicion to the news reported today that the murderer of human rights activist Natalya Estimorova has been found.

 

“My colleagues have contacted the investigation group…and it denied that the name of the murder has been established, Human Rights Center “Memorial’s” Oleg Orlov told Interfax late today.

25-Feb-2010 Police Find Fake and Real Bombs at Radio Tower

25-Feb-2010 Update of Three Bombs Found at Nazran ORB Building

25-Feb-2010 Bomb Wounds Sapper Disabling Bomb

25-Feb-2010 Arms Cache Found in Car

24-Feb-2010 Booby Trapped Bombs Found After Shooting Attack on ORD Building

24-Feb-2010 Police Officer Dead After Attack on Car

23-Feb-2010 FSB Employee Killed in Attack on Car

23-Feb-2010 Airport Terminal Attacked

23-Feb-2010 Bomb Detonates in Makhachkala

22-Feb-2010 Girl Dies, Two Boys Wounded in Grenade Explosion

22-Feb-2010 Explosive Device Detonates in Sauna

22-Feb-2010 Bomb Detonates in Trash Can

22-Feb-2010 Two Policemen Killed in Attack

21-Feb-2010 Three Civilians Wounded in Car Shooting

21-Feb-2010 Traffic Police Chief Attacked

21-Feb-2010 Bomb Detonates in Makhachkala

21-Feb-2010 Two Policemen killed in Attack on Police Post

21-Feb-2010 Two Policemen Wounded in Attack

19-Feb-2010 Three Policemen Dead, 30 Plus Wounded in Nazran Terror Attack

18-Feb-2010 Gunmen Attack Policeman’s House

18-Feb-2010 Former Fighter and NVF “Accomplice” Detained

17-Feb-2010 Explosive Device Found Near Former GOVD Building

17-Feb-2010 Moscow GUVD Denies OMON Policeman Wounded

17-Feb-2010 Hunt for Fighters in Gudermessky District Continues

16-Feb-2010 Police Officer Killed, Two Wounded in Firefight

16-Feb-2010 SKP Investigations Civilian Deaths in Spetz-Operation

16-Feb-2010 Telephone Terrorist Mines Ostankino Television Tower

15-Feb-2010 Doka Umarov Promises Suicide Bombers Will Reappear in Russian Cities

RUSSIA - The self proclaimed Emir of the Caucasus Emirate Doka Umarov promised today that suicide bombers will soon be returning to Russian cities.  The announcement  made today on the Chechen Jihadist Kavkazcenter website said that the Chechen Jihad against Russia will no longer be limited to the North Caucasus, but will soon spread to the rest of Russia with the use of suicide bombers.

15-Feb-2010 Woman Dies in Hospital from Last Night’s Attack

15-Feb-2010 Shamil Magomed Dies

15-Feb-2010 NVF Fighter Camp Located

15-Feb-2010 Group of 6-7 NVF Fighters Located

15-Feb-2010 Bomb Explodes at School in Ordzhonikidzevskaya

15-Feb-2010 Gunmen Wound Policeman and Civilian

15-Feb-2010 Grenade Launchers Used to Attack Police Post

15-Feb-2010 ROVD Building Attacked with Grenade Launcher

15-Feb-2010 16 Dead in Spetz-Operation Identified

14-Feb-2010 Bomb Detonates During Transport

14-Feb-2010 Two Policemen Die in Attack

14-Feb-2010 Police Post Attacked

14-Feb-2010 Two Killed in Shooting Attack

14-Feb-2010 Gunmen Attack Vehicle of Security Council Official

14-Feb-2010 Bodies of Fighters and Civilian Spetz-Operation Casualties Identified

INGUSHETIA – Nine of the 14-18 people initially thought to be NVF fighters killed in the spetz-operation in the Sunzhensky District (see earlier reporting) which began on 11 February have been identified.  According to the SKP (Procurator’s Investigative Committee) they are:

14-Feb-2010 Home of District Official Attacked

12-Feb-2010 15-20 Fighters Killed in Sunzhensky District

12-Feb-2010 Gunmen Attack OVD Building

11-Feb-2010 Police Officer Dies After Attack

11-Feb-2010 10 Fighters Killed in Sunzhensky District Spetz-Operation

11-Feb-2010 Explosive Device Found in Nazran

11-Feb-2010 Draftee Takes His Own Life

11-Feb-2010 Two Former Fighters Arrested

11-Feb-2010 Canister of Explosives Found

11-Feb-2010 Three Grozny Apartment Buildings Undergo Passport Regimes CHECHNYA – A resident of the Mayakovsky in the Staropromyslovsky District has told Kavkazsky Uzel that on 6 February at around 01:00 police in masks and military uniforms surrounded three multistory apartment buildings in the Staropromyslovsky District of Grozny and conducted an “address check,” of the residents.  Police were looking for NVF fighters.

10-Feb-2010 Police Car Attacked

10-Feb-2010 Police Post Attacked

10-Feb-2010 Policeman’s Body Found

10-Feb-2010 Four Fighters Take Into Custody

10-Feb-2010 Terrorist Killed While Placing Bomb

09-Feb-2010 Bomb Targets Policeman’s Home

09-Feb-2010 Gunmen Rob Post Office

09-Feb-2010 Supreme Court Proclaims “Caucasus Emirate” International Terrorist Organization

09-Feb-2010 Russia's Law Enforcers 'Broke Up Four Crime Gangs in 2009'

08-Feb-2010 Bombs in Booby Trapped Cars Destroyed

08-Feb-2010 Man Voluntarily Hands Over F-1 Grenade

07-Feb-2010 Two Killed in Shooting Attack

07-Feb-2010 Cars Used in Assassination of UVD Chief Found Booby Trapped

06-Feb-2010 Five Fighters Also Killed in Yesterday's Spetz-Operation

06-Feb-2010 Bomb Wounds Sunzhensky District Police Chief

06-Feb-2010 Two National Extremists Arrested

05-Feb-2010 Islam, Islamism and Politics in Eurasia Report No.7

NORTH CAUCASUS - Below is an excerpt from Islam, Islamism and Politics in Eurasia Report No.7 dated 18 January 2010.  It was prepared by Dr. Gordon M. Hahn and published by the Monterey Terrorism and Research Program (MonTREP), Monterey Institute for International Studies.  The full report entitled “The Cauasus Emirate’s ‘Year of the Offensive’ in Figures: Data and Analysis on the Cauasus Emirate’s Terrorist Activity in 2009” can be obtained by e-mailing gordon.hahn@miis.edu.

 

05-Feb-2010 NVF “Accomplice” Arrested

05-Feb-2010 Four/Five Servicemen Killed, Seven Wounded in Firefight

CHECHNYA -  Yesterday, four military servicemen (RIA Novosti reports  five) , including the commander of the group, were killed and seven more were wounded in a firefight in the mountains seven kilometers from the settlement of Komsomolskoye on the administrative border between the Groznensky and Urus-Martanovsky Districts. Other reporting says the firefight took place south of the village of Alkhazurovo, Urus-Martanovsky District.  

05-Feb-2010 Five More Fighters Killed

05-Feb-2010 More Details of Attack on UAZ Police Car

05-Feb-2010 Police Chief, Two Bodyguards and Driver Killed in Attack

DAGESTAN – Forty-three-year-old Makhachkala UVD police chief Colonel Akhmed Magomedov, two bodyguards, and his driver are dead as a result of an attack on his Volga car this evening at 22:25. (other reporting says 22:00).

The terror attack took place on Akushinsky Prospekt in Makhachkala, with shooters employing automatic rifle fire and machine guns from two directions. Magomedov died on the way to the hospital. 

05-Feb-2010 Chief of Department for Combating Extremism Killed

04-Feb-2010 Six NVF Fighters Killed in Groznensky District

04-Feb-2010 Three Wounded in Highway Attack on Police Cars

04-Feb-2010 Terror Attack in Karabulak Thwarted

04-Feb-2010 One Dead, Second Arrested in Attempt to Disarm Policeman

03-Feb-2010 Seif Islam Dead: Organizer of Al-Qaeda Cell Killed in Spetz-Operation

03-Feb-2010 Two Grenade Launchers Found and Disabled

03-Feb-2010 Grenade Launcher Found at Middle School

02-Feb-2010 Gunmen Attack Train Station

02-Feb-2010 Sappers Attacked

02-Feb-2010 Two Fighters Killed

02-Feb-2010 Rizvan Osmayev and Khasan Ozdamirov Killed in Spetz-Operations

02-Feb-2010 Second Policeman Dies from Yesterday’s Bomb Explosion

01-Feb-2010 Two Fighters Killed

01-Feb-2010 Two Policemen Die, Others Wounded in Grenade Attack

01-Feb-2010 Policeman Takes Own Life

01-Feb-2010 Explosion at Kindergarten Kills Wounds Six

30-Jan-2010 Police Chief’s Home Attacked

30-Jan-2010 Police Sergeant Arrested as Suspected NVF “Accomplice”

30-Jan-2010 Car Bomb Kills Driver

29-Jan-2010 Two Arms Caches Found

29-Jan-2010 Terror Attack Kills Policeman and Two Civilians

28-Jan-2010 Telephone Terrorist Mines Passenger Plane

28-Jan-2010 Gunmen Attack Vehicle of MChS Chief

28-Jan-2010 Business and Father Killed

27-Jan-2010 Suspected Fighter Surrenders After Successful Negotiations

27-Jan-2010 Two Policemen Dead in Attack

27-Jan-2010 Deputy-Speaker of Parliament Attacked

27-Jan-2010 KTO Regime Suspended

26-Jan-2010 Armed Grenade Launchers Found Near Government’s Administrative Building

26-Jan-2010 Explosive Devices Found and Disabled

26-Jan-2010 Male NVF “Accomplice” Detained

25-Jan-2010 Suspect Arrested in 1999 Kidnapping of Underage Girl

25-Jan-2010 Medvedev Appoints Ex-Top Manager in Charge of Volatile Caucasus