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| Russia carries out airstrikes in Ingushetia |
| 2006-05-03 |
| During the night of May 1-2 Russian fighter-bomber airforce made several strikes on a forest tract in the south-western part of Ingushetia. There were no casualties or structural damage. The strikes were reportedly carried out in an area of mountain and forest situated between the Nazranovsky and Sunzhensky districts of the republic (not far from Ingushetia’s administrative border with North Ossetia). Local residents say they heard the sound of jet fighters, and of bombs being dropped in the vicinity of the villages of Ali-Yurt and Surkhakhi in Ingushetia’s Nazranovsky district. "At around 11.30 pm we heard the rumble of aircraft. After a while there was the sound of bombs being dropped. It’s very probable that the strikes were carried out on the area of forest to the southeast of the villages of Ali-Yurt and Surkhakhi. There were only two explosions, 10-15 minutes apart. The force of the blast wave was such that the glass rattled in the windows of several houses. We were so scared that we couldn’t get to sleep all night. Fortunately, no one was hurt as a result of these raids,” Akhmed G., a resident of Ali-Yurt, said in a conversation with PW’s correspondent. It is not known what served as the grounds for airstrikes on the forest. In connection with the incident the Ingushetian law enforcement agencies have reported that sub-units of the 58th Army were taking part in special training exercises on the outskirts of Surkhakhi and Ali-Yurt. However, officials of the republic’s interior ministry refused to answer a question about whether ground support aircraft were used in the course of the exercises. In addition, it is reported that on the same night Russian soldiers also subjected the outskirts of the village of Valerik in the Achkhoy-Martanovsky district of Chechnya to a concentrated artillery bombardment. The attack began at approximately 11 pm and went on for 10-15 minutes. According to local residents, the firing came from long-range artillery at a place in the Urus-Martanovsky district where Russian soldiers are deployed. No one was hurt as a result of the shelling. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 The article certainly doesn't make it sound like they got anything more mobile than trees, Mucky. Agreed. Let's hold them personally responsible for the end of life on this planet when the global warming goes into overload because the remaining trees aren't capable of soaking up the excess CO2. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-05-03 22:12 |
| #2 »:-) |
| Posted by: RD 2006-05-03 17:50 |
| #1 goddam tree merderers |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2006-05-03 16:58 |