A large-scale special operation is on in Chechnya's capital Grozny to catch leaders of bandit groups and prevent terrorist acts, said the regional headquarters for the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus. "Chechnya's secret services have information obtained from earlier detained militants that extremist warlords Shamil Basayev and Abdul Khalid Saidulayev, whom Basayev named the successor to Aslan Maskhadov, intend to stage a series of major terrorist acts in the capital of Chechnya," a source in the headquarters said. He said Basayev and Saidulayev are demanding that their henchmen carry out terrorist attacks in the immediate future, because they fear being left without financial backing from foreign extremist organizations.At present special and preventive operations are being conducted in various parts of Grozny to wreck the militants' plans. The spokesman also indicated that the last terrorist act, which took place in Grozny on March 14, when the military commandant's office was fired on, with 17 law enforcement personnel wounded, testifies to the intention of the warlords to step up terrorist activity. "It is already established beyond any shadow of a doubt that this firing was done by militants from a passing car. Currently the car from which the commandant's office was fired on is being looked for, and the names of the militants being established," the spokesman noted.