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| 11 Rebels Killed Near Chechnya, New School Siege Averted |
| 2006-02-10 |
| The militants killed in a sweep operation in the village of Tekui-Mektep on Friday had been plotting a Beslan-style school siege, Viktor Barnash, head of the Stavropol territory department for the fight against organized crime, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying. “Five shooting points were destroyed and 11 militants were killed. Units are continuing to comb the village. The armed group was plotting a Beslan-style terrorist attack,” he said. Russian special forces on Friday stormed two houses in southern Russia where alleged militants were holed up, after three police officers were killed in a clash. Police, acting on a tip, hunted down the group in Tukui-Mekteb, a village in the southern Stavropol region, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the border with Chechnya. The militants refused to surrender. The militants were heavily armed with automatic weapons, grenade-launchers and ammunition. The operation to eliminate them required armored vehicles and helicopters. No civilians were killed or injured during the operation |
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| #4 Given the elapsed time since Beslan, the non-existent follow-up to Puttyputz's dramatic declaration regards going after terrs everywhere, Russkie hard-currency whoring to any asshat regime willing to pay for whatever's left in the inventory, and a hundred other examples of bloviation and dissembling and Back-stabbing Bullshit for Dollars, this has the odor of PR. Once, looooong ago, I would've taken such an announcement on faith as likely, if not truth. Now - not a chance. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-02-10 20:10 |
| #3 No civilians were killed or injured during the operation You know, there's a lesson to be learned here. Just call all the dead "Militants" and eliminate all those pesky reporters from anywhere near the operation. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-02-10 20:02 |
| #2 "...11 militants were killed." The lesson is that the above phrase will never be followed months later by, "Militants escape..." |
| Posted by: Hyper 2006-02-10 15:34 |
| #1 Islamic militants sure like kidnapping and killing women and kids. Wussies. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-02-10 14:10 |