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| 3 Count Dooku loyalists busted in Chechnya |
| 2006-01-17 |
| Three members of illegal armed groups have been arrested in Chechnya. They reported the location of hiding places with armaments. âAslanbek Bargishev, 30, from Doku Umarovâs group was arrested in the village of Chernorechye, Urus-Martan District. He told the investigators that he had set off two homemade explosive devices on Umarovâs order early in 2005,â a representative of the Chechen interior ministry told Itar-Tass. Bargishev reported the location of a hiding place with 35 projectiles for under-barrel grenade launchers, a machine-gun and 100 kilograms of plastid. Another two militants â Adlan Khamzatov, 21, from the village of Samashki, and Usam Turluyev, 25 -- were arrested in the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya. According to the results of the investigation, they were members of the gang, led by Sayed-Hasan Musostov, who was killed during an operation near the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, in Ingushetia, on December 7, 2005. âTurluyev is suspected of having taken part in an attack on the village of Roshni-Chu last August. He reported the location of a hiding place on the outskirts of a cemetery in Samashki, which contained a machine-gun, a grenade-launcher, a submachine-gun, ten projectiles for a grenade launcher and ten powder cartridges,â the Chechen interior ministry official continued. Khamzatov also reported the location of a hiding place with two Mukha grenade launchers. All the three militants are being interrogated. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |