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| Caucasus |
| Attack on Chechen Interior Minister |
| 2003-11-25 |
| Chechen Interior Ministry spokesman Ruslan Atsayev reported on Sunday that a bomb went off two or three meters behind Satuyev’s car when it was crossing the intersection of 8 March Street and Saikhanov Street in Grozny’s Oktyabrsky district. The deputy interior minister and the police officers traveling with him sustained only minor cuts and bruises. A tentative report suggests that the bomb, a radio-controlled landmine made from a 122-millimeter artillery shell, was planted on the roadside. Investigators have started the work at the crime scene and the search for those responsible for the attack is in progress. A car carrying Oktyabrsky district chief Col. Adlan Takayev hit a landmine in the same district one day earlier. This could be Abu Walid and the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade after the recent tape al-Jazeera or yet more random violence in Chechnya. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |