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Chechnya Weekly - Volume IX, Issue 5
February 7, 2008
IN THIS ISSUE:
* Gunmen Shoot Up Home of Zyazikov's Chief Bodyguard
* Putin Pays a Surprise Visit to Botlikh
* Newspaper Describes How Chechen Officials Get Compensation Payment
Kickbacks
* Briefs
* Counting Chechnya's Rebel Fighters: Kadyrov's Fuzzy Math
By Mairbek Vatchagaev
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Gunmen Shoot Up Home of Zyazikov's Chief Bodyguard
On February 6, unknown attackers fired automatic weapons and grenade
launchers at the home of Khusein Medov, the head of Ingushetian
President Murat Zyazikov's personal bodyguards. An anonymous source
in Ingushetia's "power structures" told Kavkazky Uzel that the
attack took place on the evening of February 5 at Medov's home in
Nazran's Nasyr-Kortsky municipal district and that the attackers had
approached the home in a car and escaped after firing on it. There
were no reports of any fatalities or injuries in the attack. On
February 4, bomb disposal experts defused a large improvised
explosive device on the Caucasus federal highway. ...
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