 There are about 200 foreign mercenaries fighting in illegal armed units in Chechnya, a source in the regional headquarters for the anti-terrorist campaign in the North Caucasus told Interfax with the reference to the secret services. "There are about 200 foreign mercenaries on the territory of the Chechen republic. There is information that they manage to cross the border from time to time," headquarters spokesman Maj. Gen. Ilya Shabalkin told Interfax on Thursday. Most of the foreign mercenaries come from the Middle East, he said. "Some of them come from Turkey, and there citizens of other states as well," Shabalkin said. |