As many as 70 terrorist attacks were perpetrated in the republic of Dagestan over the first six months of 2005, Igor Dobayev, a Russian Academy of Sciences expert, said in a report, copies of which were circulated by the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights. \"As many as 70 terrorist attacks were staged in Dagestan in the first half of 2005 alone. Of them, more than 40 [attacks] took place in [the Dagestani capital of] Makhachkala. Every second terrorist attack staged over the period of time in question was perpetrated through planting and detonating explosive devices, every fourth involved automatic weapons and grenade launchers, while some other instances used cars packed with explosives,\" Dobayev\'s report reads. \"More than half of the aforementioned number of terrorist attacks were aimed against high-ranking officials, one-third [of attacks] targeted deputies of various levels and law enforcement officials, while some other attacks were staged against servicemen and their family members. Methods of \"untargeted terrorism\" have become quite popular among terrorists, who commit their destructive actions in public places where primarily civilians are concentrated,\" it reads. Referring to Dagestan\'s law enforcement agencies, Dobayev said that 30 crimes of a terrorist nature, which killed 16 people and injured another 39, were registered in the republic in 2004. Of them, 18 were reported in Makhachkala and another six in the republic\'s second-largest city of Khasavyurt. Other attacks took place on highways or targeted the Mozdok-Kazimagomed gas pipeline. (Interfax)