Posted on 02/20/2005 12:22:13 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) - Security forces on Sunday stormed an apartment building in southern Russia where a small group of suspected Islamic militants had barricaded themselves, killing all the rebels, police said.
A heavy firefight broke out early Sunday morning and security forces then entered the apartment building, said an officer in the Interior Ministry department in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkariya, where the day-old standoff came to an end. He said it was not yet known how many militants had been in the apartment.
The alleged militants had been holed up inside a second-floor apartment in the latest in a series of confrontations between law-enforcement authorities and alleged extremists in the volatile North Caucasus region, which includes Chechnya.
Last month, security forces killed seven alleged Islamic extremists in the same city in a two-day battle with members of the so-called Yarmuk group.
A duty officer at the southern district office of the Interior Ministry said Saturday that at least three suspects were inside the apartment.
He said the suspects were believed to be lightly armed, and discussions aimed at their surrender had been conducted Saturday. Russia's NTV television reported, however, that the suspects were refusing to negotiate.
Yarmuk is a radical Islamic group affiliated with Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev. It was blamed in a December attack on an office belonging to the Federal Drug Control in Nalchik, when raiders killed four of the agency's employees, looted its arsenal and set the office ablaze.
Russia's southern provinces have been plagued by a spillover of violence from Chechnya, including the September school hostage-taking in the city of Beslan in which some 330 people were killed.
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"Security forces on Sunday stormed an apartment building in southern Russia where a small group of suspected Islamic militants had barricaded themselves, killing all the rebels, police said. "
Sounds good to me.
But the media is still not calling them, what they are: TERRORISTS!
Thats about the best thing you can do with them.
Now they are just holed.
The leftists are gonna pay for their Crap someday!
"...where a small group of suspected Islamic militants had barricaded themselves, killing all the rebels, police said."
My kind of happy ending.
Now that would be my kind of happy ending.
Sounds good to me!
Mine, too, come to think of it.
islam is...
http://www.freerepublic.com/~762x51mm/
Ping!
Good hunting, Russia!
YES! You gotta KILL these vermin BEFORE they attack another school with innocent children inside!
If they think this is bad, wait till they get done building the reactor for Iran and supplying them shiny new missile systems.
While Russia is careful to only supply missiles that have range to reach our troops in Iraq, Somehow I think Justice will eventualy erupt in a mushroom over Moscow.
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