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Russian forces killed at least 17 militants in airstrikes yesterday on a training camp for suicide bombers in the Ingushetia region on the eve of the one-year anniversary of a terrorist attack in the Moscow subway.
Special forces in the North Caucasus also detained two suspects in the January suicide bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, Sergei Smirnov, a deputy head of Federal Security Service, told President Dmitry Medvedev in televised remarks.
Twin suicide subway bombings during the morning rush hour in the Moscow subway killed 40 people a year ago. Doku Umarov, a Chechen rebel who claimed responsibility for the airport and subway attacks, may have been among those killed, state-run Vesti television reported on its website, citing an unidentified security official from Ingushetia.
“The operation was a great success,” Andrei Przhezdomsky, a spokesman for the National Anti-Terror Committee, said by phone in Moscow today. The committee operates under the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB. The bodies are still being identified, he said.
North Caucasus
Russia has struggled to control the North Caucasus, a strategic strip of mountainous terrain between the Black and Caspian seas that borders Georgia and Azerbaijan. Russian forces fought two wars in Chechnya to get the mainly Muslim republic back under federal control.
Then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ascended to the presidency in 2000 after sending troops into Chechnya for a second time. Violence continues to escalate in nearby regions even as Putin, who ceded the presidency to his protege Medvedev in 2008, has managed to reduce the carnage in Chechnya itself through his handpicked local leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.
Special forces located and surrounded the camp in a forest in Ingushetia and helicopters then conducted airstrikes before ground forces moved in on the militants, Przhezdomsky said.
Umarov’s close associates could have been killed in the attack, a local government official, who declined to be identified because of the ongoing investigation, said by telephone, adding it was too early to say whether Umarov himself was among the dead.
Three security officers, including two from the FSB, were killed in another operation after a suspected rebel resisted arrest, Smirnov told Medvedev. Also yesterday, security officers detained two people suspected of direct involvement in the Domodedovo attack, he said.
Russian Airstrikes Kill 17 at Caucasus Suicide-Bomber Camp - Bloomberg
Special forces in the North Caucasus also detained two suspects in the January suicide bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, Sergei Smirnov, a deputy head of Federal Security Service, told President Dmitry Medvedev in televised remarks.
Twin suicide subway bombings during the morning rush hour in the Moscow subway killed 40 people a year ago. Doku Umarov, a Chechen rebel who claimed responsibility for the airport and subway attacks, may have been among those killed, state-run Vesti television reported on its website, citing an unidentified security official from Ingushetia.
“The operation was a great success,” Andrei Przhezdomsky, a spokesman for the National Anti-Terror Committee, said by phone in Moscow today. The committee operates under the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB. The bodies are still being identified, he said.
North Caucasus
Russia has struggled to control the North Caucasus, a strategic strip of mountainous terrain between the Black and Caspian seas that borders Georgia and Azerbaijan. Russian forces fought two wars in Chechnya to get the mainly Muslim republic back under federal control.
Then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ascended to the presidency in 2000 after sending troops into Chechnya for a second time. Violence continues to escalate in nearby regions even as Putin, who ceded the presidency to his protege Medvedev in 2008, has managed to reduce the carnage in Chechnya itself through his handpicked local leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.
Special forces located and surrounded the camp in a forest in Ingushetia and helicopters then conducted airstrikes before ground forces moved in on the militants, Przhezdomsky said.
Umarov’s close associates could have been killed in the attack, a local government official, who declined to be identified because of the ongoing investigation, said by telephone, adding it was too early to say whether Umarov himself was among the dead.
Three security officers, including two from the FSB, were killed in another operation after a suspected rebel resisted arrest, Smirnov told Medvedev. Also yesterday, security officers detained two people suspected of direct involvement in the Domodedovo attack, he said.
Russian Airstrikes Kill 17 at Caucasus Suicide-Bomber Camp - Bloomberg
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