Newsbrief: Islamic Militants Kill Russian Drug Cops, Claim They Were Dealers 12/17/04

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Islamic militants attacked an office of the Russian anti-drug police Tuesday in the volatile Caucasus region, killing four of them and seizing more than 170 pistols and submachine guns, Reuters reported. According to the attackers, the anti-drug cops were actually a "criminal organization" that was peddling dope and getting the locals strung out.

According to postings on a web site for Moslem separatist rebels in Chechnya (http://www.kavkazcenter.com), a militant group called Yarmuk claimed responsibility for the attack. The night-time assault in Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, ended with the attackers executing the captured anti-drug police and burning down their building. "The attackers handcuffed them, took them into the basement of the state drug-control building and shot them there," Interfax news agency quoted a spokeswoman for the region's drugs control department as saying.

"Thanks to the efforts of this criminal organization (the anti-drugs unit), the number of drug addicts... in the Nalchik and Maisk regions of the republic has grown bigger than the average of the Russian Federation," said a Yarmuk statement on the web site. "According to Shariat (Islamic law), illegal production and distribution of drugs is punished by the death penalty."

The attack in Nalchik, along with other recent incidents in the Caucusus, such as the school attack earlier this year, have raised fears that violence linked to the Chechen conflict is spreading throughout the region, Reuters reported. Chechen separatists are known to be heavily influenced by Muslim radicals, known as Wahhabites in Russia. Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev has branded the entire North Caucasus region a "breeding ground for Wahhabism."

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Issue #367 -- 12/17/04

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