Posted on 10/15/2001 2:17:36 PM PDT by Pericles
Monday October 15 12:09 PM ET
Russian Troops Kill 20 Rebels
By YURI BAGROV, Associated Press Writer
NAZRAN, Russia (AP) - Russian troops killed 20 rebels and lost five men in scattered clashes with separatists in the breakaway province of Chechnya, officials said Monday.
Military officials also said attackers believed to be rebels fired on a civilian bus, killing six people near Argun, nine miles east of Grozny. However, they gave no further details and the shooting could not be confirmed with the rebels.
Also near Grozny, federal investigators were examining the bodies of 12 civilians found in a burial site who bore the signs of violent death.
The Russian commandant's office in Grozny said the 20 separatist fighters had been killed since Sunday as troops combed areas in southern and southeastern Chechnya, strongholds of the rebels.
Among those killed was Ali Demayev, a Chechen brigadier general described as a top aide to separatist president Aslan Maskhadov, who was shot inside his house in the area of Gudermes, Chechnya's second-largest city 19 miles east of Grozny.
Demayev, who served as Maskhadov's envoy to various field commanders, was killed in a ``carefully planned joint operation'' of Russia's Federal Security Service and defense and interior ministry troops, said the Russian commander in Chechnya, Gen. Vladimir Moltenskoi.
Troops also clashed with separatist fighters who attempted to break into the village of Ushkaloi in southern Chechnya in several vehicles on Monday. Two cars were destroyed and four rebels captured, the commandant's office said.
Russian forces also used aircraft and artillery to pound rebel positions in Chechnya's south and southeast.
Two Russian soldiers were killed in Chechen shooting attacks since Saturday, and three more died in Grozny in separate incidents when a truck and an armored personnel carrier hit land mines, according to military officials in Gudermes.
Interior troops in Grozny opened fire on two Chechens suspected of trying to plant a land mine, killing them in a subsequent shootout, said the ITAR-TASS news agency.
Chechnya won de facto independence after a 1994-96 war with Moscow. Federal forces returned three years later after militants based in Chechnya raided a neighboring Russian region and after bombings blamed on the separatists killed more than 300 people in Russian cities.
You got that right. The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.
Missile defence shield always sounded good to me. The nukes that are in suitcases have a potential that is really scary, too. If we get attacked with one of those, I suspect that it will be time to reduce our ICBM nuke supply on a good part of the middle east.
They may want them alive so that they can get information out of them.
By the way, just saw the promo for "The Last Castle" on Fox News, it opens Friday. I plan to go.
You must read the book "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America" by Yossef Bodansky. Not just about Bin Laden by a long shot. All about how the Muslim Jihad has gone global with all the Jihadist groups communicating with each other. Saudi Arabia with their Wahhabis being the prime funder of operations and culprit
BTW Bodansky sure seems like Russian Jewish name! Hahhaha
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When will Americans stop romanticizing such scum from "intriguing" cultures?
That has been a consistent American position to push Russia/Israel/Macedonia/NorthernIreland/etc. into negotiations with a group of terrorists that aren't recognized internationally as any state entity.
Gee, what a startling success that has been. Not. maybe we ought to stop giving legitimacy to terrorists.
The rest is history
Even so, come Lord Jesus
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