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Friday, 10 March 2006
CHECHEN PRIME MINISTER SAYS SPECIAL SERVICES PROTECT BASAYEV...
By empty (3/10/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Ramzan Kadyrov told journalists in Grozny on March 10 that all Chechen resistance formations have been smashed, and that only a handful of \"odious figures\" remain active, whose death or capture is \"a matter of time.\" Kadyrov said some 3,000 Interior Ministry personnel are engaged in hunting down field commanders Shamil Basayev, Doku Umarov, and Rappani Khalilov in southern Chechnya. He added that Basayev would have been apprehended long ago but for the fact that \"he is under the protection of various special services.
Ramzan Kadyrov told journalists in Grozny on March 10 that all Chechen resistance formations have been smashed, and that only a handful of \"odious figures\" remain active, whose death or capture is \"a matter of time.\" Kadyrov said some 3,000 Interior Ministry personnel are engaged in hunting down field commanders Shamil Basayev, Doku Umarov, and Rappani Khalilov in southern Chechnya. He added that Basayev would have been apprehended long ago but for the fact that \"he is under the protection of various special services.\" (RIA-Novosti)