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| February 23 terrorist attacks thwarted |
| 2006-02-23 |
| Several terror acts, hatched by gunmen for February 23, Fatherland Defenders Day, was warded off in Chechnya, Tass learnt from Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov. “On February 22, police officers uncovered a big cache with weapons and explosives, belonging to Isa Muskiev’s armed gang, in the basement of an apartment house in Grozny,” Alkhanov noted. According to the minister, “police seized 11 homemade explosive devices, each weighing ten kilos, four grenade launchers and great quantities of firearms and ammunition”. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |