ARMS CACHES DISCOVERED AT DAGHESTAN-CHECHNYA BORDER

RIA Novosti ^ | 2002-10-12

[Ranger]

MAKHACHKALA, OCTOBER 12 /from RIA Novosti's Dekabr Beibutov/ - Two caches of weapons and ammunitions have been discovered at the Botlikh sector of the administrative border between Daghestan and Chechnya.

Colonel Abdulmanat Musayev, chief of the press service of Daghestan's Interior Ministry, said Saturday that last Friday, interior troops and police discovered a camouflaged 73-mm artillery gun in the Vedeno district of Chechnya.

Apart from that, according to him, another cache containing 8 hand anti-tank grenade launchers, 5 rounds to them, and 60 underbarrel grenade launcher rounds were discovered in the area of the Kenkhi settlement in the Shatoi district of Chechnya at the administrative border with Daghestan.

Musayev stressed that the discovery of the caches came as a result of a high alert regime of service along the administrative border between Daghestan and Chechnya army and police units had been placed on.

[Ranger]

Notice how Russia is matching U.S. press releases out of Afghanistan? Russia is concerned about being a balancing power and losing that status. Also I think it will use the U.S.'s new doctrine of pre-emption as an excuse to assert pre-emtive violence against its former Soviet Republics.

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