http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15695288&PageNum=0 <http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15695288&PageNum=0> Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria have worst terrorist threat level
18.11.2010, 20.47 PYATIGORSK, November 18 (Itar-Tass) -- The highest level of the terrorist threat in the North Caucasus is in the republics of Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said at field meeting in Pyatigorsk on Thursday. "The crime situation in several regions of the North Caucasus Federal District, despite the measures being taken, remains complex and cannot but cause sound alarm," the minister said. "The increased level of the terrorist threat today is observed in two territories of the NCFD - Kabardino-Balkaria and Dagestan." For example, in Dagestan in the current year the manifestations of terrorism showed a 40-percent increase. Shootouts have grown 20 percent and bomb attacks almost doubled. "Despite the overall decline in common crimes there has been observed a sharp increase in homicides, intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, and disorderly conduct, and the number of thefts of motor vehicles nearly doubled," Nurgaliyev said. In Kabardino-Balkaria militant gangs operating underground have grown far more active. "We should study the no easy situation once again. Terrorist crimes have grown five times and more," he said. According to the Russian interior minister, Kabardino-Balkaria this year saw six time more fire attacks than in the same period of last year and nearly five times more explosions. "The leaders of bandit groups are increasingly focused on the incitement of interethnic conflicts and on the creation of hotbeds of tension," Nurgaliyev said. Terrorist attacks in the republic had provoked "greater tensions among the Balkars with the aim to destabilize inter-ethnic relations." "Hit-and-run raids by militants in the North Caucasus pursue the purpose of undermining the current government. The bandits wish to draw the maximum attention to their actions," said the interior minister. "Against the background of positive results of efforts by the law enforcers for eliminating underground militants - and here I would single out the Chechen Republic - the leaders of extremist organizations rely on one-time large-scale terrorist acts, including the use of suicide bombers," Nurgaliyev said. <http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=15695288&PageNum=0> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
