IN THIS ISSUE: * Sadulaev: The Russians are Losing * Politkovskaya Condemns the New "Stalinism" * Bodies from Gozny Reburied * Abdurakhmanov Calls for Federal Pullout * Bombs Rock Ingushetia * U.S. Journalist Detained in Dagestan: The Kremlin Closes the Curtain on the North Caucasus By Andrei Smirnov -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SADULAEV: THE RUSSIANS ARE LOSING
The Chechen separatist Daymohk website on April 3 published an address by Abdul-Khalim Sadulaev. The Chechen rebel president claimed his 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 rebel 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 rebel 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 rebels and seven policemen (see Chechnya Weekly, February 16).
Sadulaev also claimed that rebels 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 rebel 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. Following the incident, both the Kavkazcenter and Chechenpress separatist websites posted a statement from "the headquarters of the Military Committee of the GKO [State Defense Committee] Madzhilisul Shura" claiming that the blast was the result of an operation carried out by a "special group of mujahideen" (see Chechnya Weekly, February 9).
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