10 Kadyrov's apostates were killed and 10 others were wounded on Saturday in the village of Arshty, Ingushetia Province of the Caucasus Emirate, after Mujahideen ambushed their convoy, local sources report.
The convoy of five vehicles came under grenade and gun fire from Mujahideen hidden in a forest as it travelled on a road in Ingushetia at around 0530 GMT, puppet officials said. One of the vehicles with apostates inside burst into flames as a result of direct hit of a grenade.
"Forty-five members of the Chechnya police force were returning from a joint special operation when their convoy came under fire. Ten were killed and ten were wounded," an Ingush source reported.
The occupation sources say 9 Kadyrovites killed and 9 wounded during the attack of Mujahideen. However, the casualties are probably much higher. No one is killed or wounded from Mujahideen side, sources say. Several UAZ jeeps were destroyed or damaged.
It is worth noting that the battle took place not during apostates' sorties into forest, but on the contrary - during a raid of Mujahideen against apostates.
Puppet officials of the gang of "MIA of Ingushetia" commented on the attack.
As they said the convoy with Kadyrovites felt into a well-planned ambush, it was fired upon from at least three different points with machine guns and grenade launchers.
The motorcade consisted of one UAZ jeep and four UAZ minibuses. The apostates got attacked on the road between the villages and Chemulga and Arshty (Sunzha District of Ingushetia) approximately at 8:45 local time.
According to the Ingush apostates, as a result of the attack 9 Kadyrov's policemen were and 10 were injured.
Ingush apostates explained that the convoy of policemen has got into a well-planned ambush. Assault rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers were used in the attack, according to Ingush puppets.
The ringleader of a puppet administration of Arshty village was in the UAZ jeep, and members of the gang of "PPS (Patrol-Guard Service) of Achkhoi-Martan's OVD (District Department of the Interior)" were in other four UAZ minibuses.
The ringleader of puppet administration Arshty has not suffered; his car managed to slip the place of attack. The officials of Ingush apostates said 3 minibuses were completely burnt down.
Let's specify thereupon that 2 weeks ago the ringleader of Chechen apostates Kadyrov declared that the Mujahideen would be finished off in 2 weeks.
Later, the apostate prolonged his deadline "of the eng of special operation" to 1 month.
The apostate ringleader canceled all holidays to his subordinates and demanded "to finish off the militants at any price". Here is AFP's report about the attack: Concerns have grown in the last weeks about the stability of Ingushetia, after its puppet leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov was gravely wounded in a car bombing on June 22.
The attack is the deadliest single rebel strike in the Caucasus since April when Russia abolished a decade-long "anti-terror operation" in Chechnya which was the scene of two wars since the collapse of communism.
Russia justified that move by saying stability had returned to Chechnya under Kadyrov's puppet regime. But analysts warned at the time that other regions of the Caucasus were still mired in unrest.
Rebels are battling pro-Kremlin authorities and Russian security forces in a low-level insurgency in the overwhelmingly Muslim regions of Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia.
The rebels claim they are trying to form an "Islamic Emirate" in the Caucasus.
Kadyrov said he had given orders to be personally informed of all aspects of the investigation and characterized the attack as a final act of desperation by militants.
"All they can do to us today is crudely shoot us in the back from the bushes. And we are going to put an end to this," he said, according to RIA Novosti.
"Sooner or later we will get them," added Chechnya's interior minister Ruslan Alkhanov, according to Interfax. "Not a single crime will go unpunished."
Officials said Friday that Yevkurov had regained consciousness after almost two weeks in a coma but the Kremlin has appointed the local prime minister Rashid Gaisanov as acting Ingush leader until he recovers.
That move was widely seen as a bid by the Kremlin to halt political infighting in the Caucasus after both Kadyrov and former Ingush pro-Moscow president Ruslan Aushev showed interest in filling the power vacuum.
Dagestan is also of particular concern after rebels in June shot dead the region's long-serving interior minister as he attended the wedding of a colleague's daughter.
Rebels on Wednesday staged a brazen attack in the ancient Dagestani city of Derbent, opening fire on a police station and then exploding a car parked next to it.
Kadyrov's own tactics also remain the focus of attention amid allegations of rights abuses. This week Human Rights Watch accused his security forces of systematically burning down homes of the families of alleged rebels. Kavkaz Center
Publication time: 4 July 2009, 11:14
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