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Newsbrief:
Islamic
Militants
Kill
Russian
Drug
Cops,
Claim
They
Were
Dealers
12/17/04
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/367/caucasus.shtml
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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