By empty (8/31/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen police have eliminated a guerrilla group which had been organizing terrorist attacks against top republic and federal troop commanders, Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov told Interfax on Wednesday. \"A guerrilla group which planned to carry out large-scale terror attacks was eliminated in the village of Novoterskoye, in the Naurskaya district, on Wednesday morning. The group had caches of shoulder-held grenade launchers, flame-throwers, submachine guns and other ammunition,\" the minister said.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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