In the course of a special operation in Ingushetia, federal forces have discovered caches containing arms, ammunition, explosives and other equipment worth about $2 mln, said Colonel Ilya Shabalkin, spokesman for the Regional Operational HQ for Anti-Terrorist Operations in the North Caucasus. The arms and explosives were bought with money allocated by "financier" of Chechen militants, Abu Al-Walid for gang groups of Aslan Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev, Shabalkin stated. He also added that the contents of the cache would be enough to equip a force of up to 200 people, and perpetrate about 100 terror acts using radio-controlled explosive devices.
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