News Digest
DISQUALIFIED CHECHEN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DETAILS THREATS, PRESSURE
By empty (7/27/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In an interview published in \"Novaya gazeta\" No. 53, Moscow-based Chechen businessman Malik Saidullaev said that when he went to the Chechen Central Election Commission in Grozny to register as a candidate for the 29 August ballot to elect a successor to slain pro-Moscow Chechen leader Akhmed-hadji Kadyrov, he was surrounded in the government building by some 100 armed men and then threatened by Chechen State Council Chairman Taus Dzhabrailov that unless he withdrew \"voluntarily\" from the ballot, all possible measures would be undertaken to prevent him from participating. Saidullaev said that three days before he was informed last week of his disqualification, he received a telephone call from the election commission again asking him to withdraw, but he refused to do so.DISQUALIFIED CHECHEN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DETAILS THREATS, PRESSURE
By empty (7/27/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In an interview published in \"Novaya gazeta\" No. 53, Moscow-based Chechen businessman Malik Saidullaev said that when he went to the Chechen Central Election Commission in Grozny to register as a candidate for the 29 August ballot to elect a successor to slain pro-Moscow Chechen leader Akhmed-hadji Kadyrov, he was surrounded in the government building by some 100 armed men and then threatened by Chechen State Council Chairman Taus Dzhabrailov that unless he withdrew \"voluntarily\" from the ballot, all possible measures would be undertaken to prevent him from participating. Saidullaev said that three days before he was informed last week of his disqualification, he received a telephone call from the election commission again asking him to withdraw, but he refused to do so.OFFICIAL: CHECHEN WARLORD VIDEO LOOKS REAL
By empty (7/27/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A top security official Tuesday said a videotape showing prominent Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev looting an arsenal after last month\'s insurgent attacks in Ingushetia appeared authentic. A second expert said testimony from captured rebel suspects indicated that Basayev led the June 21 raid in which 90 people died. The video was posted to a pro-rebel Web site on Monday and showed Basayev and about a dozen other camouflage-clad men pulling weapons and ammunition boxes off shelves in a building that Basayev said on the tape was an Interior Ministry arsenal in Ingushetia.TOP OFFICIAL CONFIRMS BASAYEV LED INGUSHETIA ATTACK
By empty (7/27/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian Deputy Prosecutor Deneral Sergei Fridinsky has confirmed that an armed raid by militants into Ingushetia on June 21-22 was led by Chechen rebel warlord Shamil Basayev. \"It follows from evidence given by the detainees that Basayev led the bandit attack,\" Fridinsky told Interfax. Earlier, a videotape that appeared on the Internet showed Basayev in front of weapons depots in Ingushetia.Visit also
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