Russia’s Anti- Terror
Campaign
Despite pressure
from Jordanian officials on Russia to prevent an attack on Iraq–a
country the US, Britain and a few other countries have found to
be a sponsor of terror–Russia has been aggressively conducting
it’s own anti-terror campaigns within Russian territories.
Grozny, was
the site of a recent terrorist attack that killed 57 innocent
people while they were at work and wounded over 150 others. Since
that time security efforts to protect civilians and hunt out terrorists
have intensified an already aggressive campaign by Russian officials
to prevent terror attacks.
According
to the RIA Novosti, Monday, January 27, 2003, officers of the
Russian Interior Affairs Ministry have uncovered seven arms-caches
over the past 24 hours.
One weapons-cache
was found in a forest, nearby Samashki village. The cache contained
20 anti-tank mines, three shots for a grenade launcher and six
F-1 grenades.
In the course
of the operative and investigative measures, Interior Affairs
Ministry officers discovered an arms-cache kept by terrorists
in one of the abandoned houses in the village of Belorechye of
the Gudermes district of Chechnya. 3 shots for an underbarrel
grenade launcher, 125 7.62 caliber bullets and a mine were confiscated
from the arms-cache. A self-made unit for shooting from an RPG
grenade launcher was found at the same place.
The measures concerning the identification and
arrest of those involved in the keeping of arms-caches are being
taken at the present moment.
All in all,
three pistols, an automatic rifle, 6 grenade launchers, a carbine,
5 hunting rifles, 1,600 bullets of various caliber for automatic
weapons, 19 grenades, 34 shots for a grenade launcher, 38 artillery
shells, 17 mines, and 3 fuses were confiscated over the last two
days in Chechnya, the RIA Novosti reported.
During one anti-terror operation last July, Russian
officers seized a large terrorist arsenal, that contained "several
portable anti-missile systems, many anti-tank grenade-launchers,
F-1 grenades, antipersonnel mines, plastic explosives, mine detonators
and modern satellite communication systems."
Recently, French officials provided Russia information
on terrorists plots on Russian interests after arresting men responsible
for the murder of 21 in a Tunisian synagogue bombing. The arrests
resulted in the discovery of detailed chemicals list and prices,
methods and materials on how to forge documents, and videotapes
of extreme tactic fighting in Chechnya.