Friday 9-May-2008                    

Profile of Captured Dagestani Terrorist Farid Magomedov

RUSSIA’S MOST WANTED: Abu Khavs al-Urduni (also Abu Khavs and Abu Hafs)

 

Biographical Data: Doku Umarov

Damir R. Markovskiy

Ali Taziyev

Doku Umarov

Ali Agamerzayev

Magomed Taimaskhanov

Isa Mazhidov

Zara Murtazaliyeva

08-May-2008 Fighter Who Participated in 1999 Attack on Dagestan Surrenders

08-May-2008 Fighter Killed in Spetz-Operation

08-May-2008 Police Attacked in Untsukulsky District

08-May-2008 Bomb Found on Railroad Tracks

08-May-2008 Fighter Captured in Makhachkala

08-May-2008 Chechen NVF Member Arrested in Volgogradskaya Oblast

07-May-2008 Militant Bomb Targets Another FSB Vehicle

07-May-2008 Krasnoyarsk Contract Soldier Killed in Militant Attack

07-May-2008 No One Hurt in Yesterday’s Gun Battle

07-May-2008 Kabardino-Balkaria Cash-for-Arms Program Results

06-May-2008 Details on Cases Against Four NVF “Accomplices” Released

CHECHNYA – The cases against four Vedensky residents who served as NVF “accomplices” have been sent to the Shalinsky District court for trial.  The four have been identified as Beksolt Istamulov, Islam Gastiyev, Uspa Luluyev, and Zargan Khitiyeva.

06-May-2008 Serviceman Steps on Landmine

06-May-2008 Police Deny Bomb Was Found in Nazran

06-May-2008 Tonight’s Attempt to Assassinate Anti-Narcotics Chief Fails

06-May-2008 Website Reports Evening Attack on Police Post

05-May-2008 Bombing Terror Attack Kills Five Policemen, Wounds Two More

05-May-2008 Sappers at Work Tonight on Another Bomb Found in Nazran

INGUSHETIA – Police tonight (at around 21:00) found a homemade bomb in the Nasyr-Kortsky municipal okrug of Nazran on Tutayeva Street.

05-May-2008 Morning and Afternoon Attacks Wound More Servicemen

INGUSHETIA – For the second time today, militants have wounded military servicemen in attacks on military convoys.  This afternoon’s attack took place on the road between the villages of Yandare and Surkhkhi in the Nazranovsky District. Three shooters reportedly carried out the attack, then fled in two vehicles (an UAZ 452 and a Niva), but soon abandoned them and fled on foot into the forest.

 

05-May-2008 Sniper Attack Kills Karelsky Policeman

CHECHNYA – Dmitry Kuzetsov, an inspector of the GIBDD road patrol service for the Lakhdenpokhsky ROVD, Karelskaya Oblast, on assignment to Chechnya, died last night after a sniper’s bullet penetrated the windshield of the car he was driving and went into his heart. 

05-May-2008 Man Gets 8 Years and 2 Months for 1999 Ransom Kidnapping

05-May-2008 Grenade Thrown at General Director’s Home

03-May-2008 Three Explosions Heard in Troitskaya Tonight

03-May-2008 Friday Morning Attack Wounded Unit Commander and Technician

03-May-2008 Police Unit Attacked in Nazran Firday Night

03-May-2008 Azerbaijan Prepares to Extradite Chechen Refugee

03-May-2008 Three Policemen Wounded in Nalchik Militant Ambush

03-May-2008 Two Die in Gun Battle With Militant Group

02-May-2008 Gelayev Arms Cache Found

02-May-2008 CHECHNYA: No Kidnappings So Far in 2008

02-May-2008 Borzoi Resident Hands Over Arms Arsenal

02-May-2008 Another Mosque Bomb Found

02-May-2008 Underground Bunker Found

02-May-2008 No Militant Attacks Reported on May Day Celebrations

01-May-2008 President Zyazikov Reportedly Beaten in Moscow

01-May-2008 Resident Hands Over Four Grenade Launcher Projectiles

30-Apr-2008 Two Bombs Disabled Yesterday in Nazran INGUSHETIA – Police in Nazran yesterday disabled two homemade explosive devices, each consisting of two RKG-3EM grenades,  electronic detonators, and Nokia cell phones.

30-Apr-2008 “Volga-16” Police Post Attacked Tonight

30-Apr-2008 Another Bomb Found Under Car in Malgobek

30-Apr-2008 Court Sentences Former Ichkerian Deputy Commander for 1996 Kidnapping and Murder

CHECHNYA – A former Ichkerian front deputy commander has been sentenced to nine years for the kidnapping and murder of a Chechen civilian in October 1996.

 

30-Apr-2008 Military Serviceman Wounded in Attack on Post

30-Apr-2008 Accused Terrorists Continue to be Held

CHECHNYA – A Moscow court has ordered that the detention period for three Chechen men accused of preparing a terror attack in Moscow on 9 May 2007 be continued until 8 July 2008 in order to allow investigators to complete their investigation.

30-Apr-2008 Two Chechen Men Freed on Explosives Possession Charges

SWEDEN – A court in the city of Malma today freed two of three Chechen men detained in March at the Port of Trelleborg with explosives and arms in their possession. 

29-Apr-2008 Dagestan Increases Security for May Holidays

29-Apr-2008 More Details on Last Night’s Attack on Police Vehicle

29-Apr-2008 Wounded Fighter Captured

29-Apr-2008 Fighters Believed Responsible for Murder of Girls Killed

29-Apr-2008 Shooting Incident Registered in Malbobek

28-Apr-2008 FSB Offical Finds Bomb Under His Car

28-Apr-2008 Man Hands Over 150 Kilograms of Explosives

CHECHNYA – An unemployed resident of the settlement of Tolstoi-Yurt, Groznensky District, over the weekend turned in 150 kilograms of trotil (TNT) to police. 

 

28-Apr-2008 Arms/Explosives Cache Found in Basement

CHECHNYA – Rosbalt.ru reports that an arms and explosives cache was found on Saturday in the basement of a demolished house in the village of Bamut.  Achkoi-Martanovsky OVD and UUR MVD Chechnya personnel found:

28-Apr-2008 Arms Cache Found in Stavropolsky Krai

28-Apr-2008 Police Identify UBOP Officials’ Assassin

28-Apr-2008 Gunmen Wound Policeman in Car Ambush

28-Apr-2008 Police Prepare for the May Holidays

CHECHNYA – Police in Chechnya are gearing up for the upcoming May holidays when the threat of terrorism from North Caucasus militants is greatest.

28-Apr-2008 Former NVF “Accomplice” Voluntarily Surrenders

CHECHNYA – Police report that yesterday a former NVF “accomplice” to two illegal armed formations voluntarily surrendered in the Kurchaloisky District.    The 24-year-old district resident told investigators that in the fall and winter of 2001 he served as an “accomplice” to NVFs commanded by Abubakarov and Gatayev.

28-Apr-2008 Anti-Terror Exercise Underway in Tsentoroi

CHECHNYA – The republic’s presidential press service announced today that an anti-terror training exercise is underway in the village of Tsentoroi, President Kadyrov’s hometown.  It is being observed by the president himself, State Duma Deputy Adam Delimkhanov, and Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov.

28-Apr-2008 Grenades Dangling from Vehicle Undercarriage Fail to Detonate

CITY OF KROPOTKIN – A resident of the city of Kropotkin told police today that he found two RGD-5 grenades attached to his car after hearing a rattling sound under his car.  The grenades were found under the man’s VAZ-2114 car a 13:30 today after the man arrived at the Kubana airport.

28-Apr-2008 Trotil (TNT) Cache Seized From Nalchik Resident

26-Apr-2008 Cache Found

26-Apr-2008 Nalchik Man Arrested for Explosives Possession

26-Apr-2008 Man Looses Legs to Homemade Bomb

25-Apr-2008 Attacks in Ingushetia Intensify

25-Apr-2008 MVD Says Salim Bimurzayev Responsible for Deaths of Two Little Girls

24-Apr-2008 Multiple Attacks Result in Death of Brother of Parliamentary Deputy

24-Apr-2008 Gunmen Shoot Up Stores in Nazran

INGUSHETIA – At 04:00 on 23 April unknown gunmen shot up a two story building housing the stores “Eldorado” and “Ruslan” at house No. 72, Oskanova Street in Nazran.  Both stores are owned by a 53-year-old man identified as Aushyev. No one was hurt.

24-Apr-2008 Two NVF Members Suspected of Murder Captured

24-Apr-2008 Cash for Arms Program Yields Results

Aburakhman Muminov gave police an OZM-72 anti-personnel mine, 18 grenades, 5000 rounds of ammunition and 55 projectiles to a shoulder fired grenade launcher. The 42-year-old man said he had found the cache in 1999 in a field not far from Botlikh, Botlikhsky District.

 

23-Apr-2008 Kabardino-Balkaria Announces Fresh “Wanted” list

KABARDINO-BALKARIA – Thirty-one NVF members (including 11 who participated in the October 2005 on Nalchik) and the former director of the Kabardino-Balkaria Institute of Islamic Research, Ruslan Nukhushev, have again been put of Russia’s “Wanted” list. 

 

The 11 suspects who attacked Nalchik include:

23-Apr-2008 Militant Attack on FSB Leaves Dead and Wounded

INGUSHETIA –   The silver VAZ 21112 car used in this evening’s attack on FSB personnel has been found in a forest near the settlement of Yandare. 

 

23-Apr-2008 Grocery Store Shot Up This Morning

INGUSHETIA – At 08:00 this morning unknown gunmen firing automatic weapons attacked a grocery store on Oskanova Street in Nazran.  There have been no reports of dead or wounded. 

 

23-Apr-2008 Former Gelayev Fighter Voluntarily Surrenders

23-Apr-2008 Two Fighters Captured

CHECHNYA – A former fighter who, according to police, from January to March 1995 belonged to an NVF was taken into custody yesterday at 10:30 in the settlement of Chechen-Aul, Groznensky District, on Partizanskaya Street.

23-Apr-2008 Explosives Cache Found

DAGESTAN – Police at 18:30 yesterday found an explosives cache three kilometers from the settlement of Mazhgar, Novolaksky District.  It contained:

 

23-Apr-2008 Gunmen Fire on FSB Helicopter

23-Apr-2008 Arms Cache Found

22-Apr-2008 Police Post Attacked, Civilian Wounded

22-Apr-2008 Arms Cache Found

22-Apr-2008 Policeman Wounded in Grenade Attack on Police Post

22-Apr-2008 Sweden Refuses to Extradite Fighter

22-Apr-2008 Serviceman Wounded by Roadside Bomb

21-Apr-2008 Two Girls Die in Attack on Vehicle

21-Apr-2008 Police Appeal to Public for Information on Fighters

21-Apr-2008 Interior Ministry Troops’ Officer Dies in Gunfight

19-Apr-2008 Police Find Secret Fighter Bunker

DAGESTAN – At 12:00 today, police in the settlement of Gimry, Untsukulsky District, found a hidden bunker which had recently been occupied by members of the NVF commanded by Ibragim Gadzhidadayev. RETWA readers will recall that Gadzhidadayev has been wanted for the murder of Peoples Assembly Deputy Gazimagomed Magomedov (Gimrinsky District) since December 2007.

19-Apr-2008 Explosive Device Detonates in Man’s Hands

19-Apr-2008 Body of Second Missing Policeman Found

INGUSHETIA – The body of the policeman from northern Russia thought to have been kidnapped several days ago has been found near the village of Galashki in the Sunzhensky District.  “The body was found in a forested ravine during a search of the area conducted by MVD Ingushetia and North Ossetia personnel,” an MVD Ingushetia spokesman told Interfax  today.

 

19-Apr-2008 Railroad Crossing Ambush Leaves Serviceman Wounded

19-Apr-2008 Explosives Cache Found

19-Apr-2008 Military Servicemen Attacked

18-Apr-2008 Man Sentenced to 13 Years for Murder

18-Apr-2008 Arsonist Sets Fire to Government Building

18-Apr-2008 Bomb Targets Nazran Mayor’s House

18-Apr-2008 Body of Sunzhensky ROVD Chief Found

17-Apr-2008 Terrorism Responsible For Gas Pipeline Explosion

CHECHNYA – Terrorism is attributed to an early Wednesday morning explosion of a gas pipeline in Grozny which killed a Interior Ministry Troops serviceman and wounded another.    Later reporting indicated that both died.  They have been identified as a unit deputy commander, 20-year-old Sergeant Ryazantsyev and his colleague 19-year-old Kalachyev.   

 

17-Apr-2008 Fighters Attack Karabulak OMON Base

INGUSHETIA – At 01:10 Wednesday morning blogger “Kaloy” reported that a gunfight was taking place in Karabulak following an earlier attack on GOVD policemen.  Kaloy indicated that the information came by telephone from his father who lives in Karabulak.

17-Apr-2008 Landmines Have Claimed 3096 Victims Since 1994

CHECHNYA – UNICEF reports that 3096 people have been victims of landmine explosions in Chechnya since the end of 1994 when the first Chechen campaign began.  Of those, 715 died.

17-Apr-2008 Gunman Attack OMON Police Car

17-Apr-2008 Cash for Arms Program Paying Off KABARDINO-BALKARIA – Since operation “Oruzhiye” (arms) went into effect 15 days ago, people have voluntarily turned in arms and explosives from which they will be paid 253,000 Roubles. 

17-Apr-2008 Policeman Overpowers Shooter

15-Apr-2008 Two Fighters Attacking Police Post Killed

15-Apr-2008 Two Children Die in Grenade Projectile Explosion

15-Apr-2008 Policeman Kidnapped

15-Apr-2008 Police Disarm Explosive Device

15-Apr-2008 Another Member of Barayev’s NVF Arrested

14-Apr-2008 Telephone Terrorist Turns Out to be Underage Girl

14-Apr-2008 Police Hunt Two Men Hunted for Theater Bombing

SOCHI –  Police tonight are searching for two young men, 25-30-years-of-age,  suspected bombing a movie theater in the Lazaryevsky District of the oblast.  One suspect is described as being 165-175 centimeters in height, middle build, light colored short hair, dresse in a camouflage jacket  and dark pants.  The second  suspect is believed to be 175-180 centimeters tall, medium build, dressed in a black jacket, dark pants, boots or shoes.

14-Apr-2008 Two NVF “Accomplices” Arrested

14-Apr-2008 Active Fighter Captured

14-Apr-2008 Ingushetia’s Judges to Receive Increased Security

14-Apr-2008 Dagestan’s Judges Work Without Body Guards

13-Apr-2008 Three NVF “Accomplices” Arrested

13-Apr-2008 NVF Leader Ismail Yangizbiyev Killed

13-Apr-2008 Ingushetia’s Supreme Court Chief Judge Assassinated

12-Apr-2008 “Passport Regime” Check Underway in Berd-Yurt

12-Apr-2008 Half Kilogram of Explosives Seized from Resident

12-Apr-2008 Policeman Dies, Three Wounded in Militant Attack

12-Apr-2008 Active Fighter Detained/Cache Found

12-Apr-2008 Arms Cache Found

11-Apr-2008 Two NVF “Accomplices” Arrested

CHECHNYA –  IA Regnum reports that two NVF “accomplices were arrested today.  An unidentified 47-year-old resident of Belgatoi, Shalinsky Disrict, was taken into custody today at around 12:00 by police and Interior Ministry Troops’ personnel.  According to investigators, from March 2000 until January 2002, the suspect provided food and medicine to fighters belonging to the NVF commanded by Movsayev.

11-Apr-2008 Arms Cache Found

11-Apr-2008 OMON Sniper Dies in Accidental Weapon’s Discharge Incident

11-Apr-2008 Apartment Building Explosion “May Have Been Terror Act”

MOSCOW – Investigators are now saying that the 4 April 2008 explosion of Koroleva Street in Moscow may have been a terror attack.  The Investigative Committee with the Procurator’s office for the North-Western Okrug of Moscow, Sergey Frolov, made that announcement today.  Investigation into the explosion continues.

11-Apr-2008 Skinheads Stab Ingushetian Man  

MOSCOW – On 7 April at 21:30, a group of “skinheads” attacked and killed a 24-year-old Ingushetian man near the “Vykhino” metro station.  According to police, the victim identified as Bashir Oziyev died from a knife stab wound in the back.  His friend, managed to take the knife from the stabber and wound two of the attackers, causing the rest to flee.

 

11-Apr-2008 Man Arrested for Joking About Bomb on Aircraft

MOSCOW – Police have taken a man into custody on the Moscow-to-St Petersburg flight “OP-923” (originating at Vnykovo airport) for joking that there was a bomb aboard the plane.   

10-Apr-2008 NVF Leader Rakhmatull Bekmurzayev Arrested

ASTRAKHANSKAYA OBLAST – Last Saturday police arrested wanted NVF leader Rakhmatull Bekmurzayev“ in the Limansky District of the Astrakhanskaya Oblast.  Bekmuarzayev had been wanted for some time for the murder of Neftekumsky ROVD policemen in the Stavropolsky Krain in 2002. 

 

10-Apr-2008 More Fighter Bases and Arms Caches Found

10-Apr-2008 Former Barayev Gang Member Detained

10-Apr-2008 40 Times Fewer Kidnapping Over the Past Two Years

CHECHNYA - There were “40 times fewer kidnappings” in Chechnya over the past two years compared to earlier years.    That announcement was made today by Deputy Interior Minister Arkadiy Yedyelyev at a meeting of the ATK (anti-terror commission) in Grozny.

09-Apr-2008 A Ton of Ammonium Nitrate Stolen from Warehouse

09-Apr-2008 KB’s Interior Minister Says Ingushetia Poses Threat

09-Apr-2008 Cache Containing 40 Mortar Shells Found and Destroyed

09-Apr-2008 Remembrance of the 1995 Samashki “Cleaning” Operation Victims to Be Held in Moscow Tomorrow

09-Apr-2008 Man Arrested for Transporting Explosives

08-Apr-2008 Young Men Arrested for Arms Peddling

08-Apr-2008 Two Bombing in Ingushetia Yesterday

08-Apr-2008 Counter-Terror Statistics for March

08-Apr-2008 Fighters Hunt Policemen in Chechen Village

CHECHNYA - On the night of 3 April a group of 10-15 armed men entered the village of Yandi-Kotar, Achkoi-Martanovsky District.  According to a resident, the men went door-to-door to confirm whether the homes’ occupants were civilians or policemen.  Finding no policemen, they left the village. 

 

08-Apr-2008 Police Station Shot Up, Captain Wounded

07-Apr-2008 Aviation Bomb Destroyed In Botliksky District

07-Apr-2008 Chechen Family Caught Entering Lithuania Illegally

07-Apr-2008 Ingushetia Law Enforcers Working Under Heightened Security Regime

07-Apr-2008 Bomb Detonates Near Bridge

07-Apr-2008 Former Barayev Fighter Detained

07-Apr-2008 Four Fighters Taken Into Custody on 5 April

07-Apr-2008 Man Surrenders Grenade Launcher

06-Apr-2008 More Details on Last Night’s Attack in Ingushetia

06-Apr-2008 Wanted Fighter Detained

05-Apr-2008 Interior Ministry Serviceman Wounded in Ambush

05-Apr-2008 Woman Killed in Drive-by Shooting

05-Apr-2008 Former Fighter Voluntarily Surrenders

05-Apr-2008 Two Fighter Facilities and Explosives Cache Found

05-Apr-2008 Fighter Facility and Cache Found in Ingushetia

05-Apr-2008 Terrorism Ruled Out in Moscow Apartment Building Explosion

03-Apr-2008 Three Chechens Caught in Sweden with Explosives and Kalashnikov’s

03-Apr-2008 Fighter and Accomplice Taken Into Custody

02-Apr-2008 Man Sentenced to Four Years for Financing Terrorists

02-Apr-2008 Terror Attack Thwarted

02-Apr-2008 Roadside Bomb Targets Police Bus

02-Apr-2008 Unknown Gunmen Ambush Police

01-Apr-2008 Police Post Attacked

01-Apr-2008 Roadside Bomb Targets Police Vehicle

31-Mar-2008 Home of Deputy Cultural Minister Attacked with Grenade

31-Mar-2008 Wanted Terrorist Captured in Rostov-on-Don

31-Mar-2008 Arms Cache Found in Budennovsk

31-Mar-2008 Woman Wounded in Grenade Explosion in Serious Condition

30-Mar-2008 Abandoned Weapon and Ammunition Found

30-Mar-2008 Two Arms Cache’s Found

30-Mar-2008 19 Wounded by Grenade at Wedding

30-Mar-2008 Four Policemen Caught in Ransom Trap

30-Mar-2008 “Marakesh” Restaurant Shooter Arrested

28-Mar-2008 Woman Injured in Oil Terminal Explosion Dies

28-Mar-2008 Prosecutor Demands Life Sentences for Kidnappers/Murderers

27-Mar-2008 Three Fighters Killed in Ogni Counter-Terror Operation

27-Mar-2008 Explosion at Oil Terminal Not Terror Act

27-Mar-2008 Three Fighters and “Accomplice” Arrested

26-Mar-2008 Four Men Peddling Explosives Arrested

26-Mar-2008 Policemen in Satisfactory Condition

26-Mar-2008 Fighter and “Accomplice” Taken into Custody

26-Mar-2008 Police Blockade Fighters in Apartment

26-Mar-2008 Servicemen Outnumber Fighters 60 to 1 in North Caucasus