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Chechen leader Sheikh Abdul-Halim: The Russians are losing

The Chechen sources published an address by Sheikh Abdul-Khalim Sadulaev, the Chechen and Caucasus Mujahiddeen leader. He claimed Mujahiddeen forces had destroyed "dozens of pieces of enemy equipment" on "all fronts of the war" this winter. "The most odious figures in the camp of the national traitors, who were decorated with medals and crosses by their bosses, have also been liquidated," Sadulaev said. "God has helped us to defeat them. The greatest successes have been achieved in Dagestan where the traitors' leaders have been wiped out. Successful combat operations are also being waged in Karachaevo-Cherkessia, although not so actively as in the main areas of the mujahideen's attacks in Ingushetia, Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria and Adygeya."

Sadulaev claimed that Mujahiddeen forces had also "performed well" in the Krasnodar and Stavropol territories, carrying out "successful operations there with far-reaching consequences"—including one in which, he claimed, 10 members of an OMON special police unit were killed and Mujahiddeen fighters managed to break out of an encirclement after losing only two men. Sadulaev was apparently referring to a shootout in Tukui-Mekteb, a village in Stavropol Krai's Neftekumsky district, last February. The Associated Press reported on February 10 that two days of fighting in Tukui-Mekteb had killed 12 suspected Mujahiddeens and seven policemen.

Sadulaev also claimed that Mujahiddeens in North Ossetia this winter had destroyed all the armored equipment of one federal battalion. He said, however, that he had "no definite information" that Mujahiddeen forces were behind the incident in the Chechen village of Kurchaloi—which, he claimed, "completely wiped out" a "battalion of Yamadaev's munafiqs [hypocrites]." Sadulaev here was referring to the February 7 explosion at a two-story military barracks of the Vostok Battalion of the federal Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), which is commanded by Sulim Yamadaev. The Emergency Situations Ministry reported on February 8 that 13 people were killed and more than 20 injured in the explosion at the barracks, and some officials said they believed the blast was caused by a gas leak while others said a bomb could not be ruled out.

"We are aware that Kadyrov's criminals are at loggerheads with Yamadaev's men, but until we are in possession of the facts we are unable to say that it was our mujahideen who carried out this operation," Sadulaev said of the Kurchaloi explosion. "When we do get final information, I shall give a further report in my next address about the results of this operation. All we know for certain is that one company of a battalion of Yamadaev's terrorists was completely destroyed. But the only person who could believe that there had been a domestic gas explosion is some amateur dilettante who has no idea that a war is going on or that Putin is in the Kremlin. Nobody else believes such nonsense. The mujahideen know how a gas cylinder explodes, how a shell explodes and how a building collapses when it has been mined on all sides with explosives. The building was mined in such a way that no one could possibly have survived."