 Men from the Security Service of the Chechen president and from other power structures of the republic have arrested seven members of Shamil Basayev's bandit gang in the village of Alkhan-Yurt, located in the Urus-Martan district of Chechnya. Itar-Tass was told on Tuesday at the Regional Operations HQ, directing the counter-terrorism operation in the Northern Caucasus, that the arrested men had on them forged certificates of Chechen security agents. A large weapons cache was also found in one of the houses of the said village. It contained twenty grenade launchers, twenty-five Kalashnikov submachine-guns and other weapons, as well as approximately three thousand cartridges, a demolition bomb and nine transceivers. The district procurator's office has instituted criminal proceedings. |