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http://www.kavkaz.org.uk/russ/article.php?id=17778 [BBC Monitoring] Unknown Chechen group issues statement to claim responsibility for Moscow metro blast A statement by a previously unknown armed group Gazoton Murdash (Murids of Gazavat - Followers of the Holy War) has been emailed from an anonymous address to the editorial office of the Kavkaz-Tsentr news agency. The statement by the leader of the group, who introduced himself as Lom-Ali Chechenskiy, says that this military organization assumes responsibility for the 6 February blast in the Moscow metro. Kavkaz-Tsentr reported that this statement was first received on 8 February. However, the editorial office decided against publishing the statement. A few days later the statement was sent a second time and then a third time. A man who introduced himself as Lom-Ali Chechenskiy called the Kavkaz-Tsentr news agency editorial office by a satellite telephone late on 29 February. He said he was calling from Chechnya and that it was his people who sent the statement to the news agency. After the telephone call, the Kavkaz-Tsentr news agency decided to publish the statement by the Gazoton Murdash group in full and unabridged. Evidently, if the statement is true and a new and previously unknown group is indeed behind the blast in the Moscow metro, then the war unleashed by Russia against Chechnya has transformed into a qualitatively new one when absolutely autonomous groups of revengers emerge on the scene who declare revenge as their goal and define the enemy's territory as the battlefield. Text of the statement received by the news agency on 8 February 2004 In the Name of Allah the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. We, the followers of saint teachers and Saint Vokkha-Khadzhi from Sayasan, Kishi-Khadzhi from Iliskhan-Yurt, Ovda from Avtury and other sheikhs, whose blessing, by mercy of Allah the Most High, protects our fatherland, declare the foundation of a military wing of the Sufi brotherhood - the division Followers of the Holy War - and the start of revenge on Russia. Patience is not endless. The most honourable part of the Chechen people are today on the verge of extermination. But turds like Kadyrov want to sow slavery, hypocrisy, vice and other evils of the Satan among people, which have never been in character for real Chechens. Sheikh Kishi-Khadzhi, may the blessing of Allah the Most High be upon him, told us to be patient and defined the barriers which we cannot go over. Today the Chechen people have reached the line behind which there is an abyss and there is nowhere to retreat, and the whole of the nation, young and old, must rise up to decisively fight Russian aggressors and their accomplices and traitors. This is a war to exterminate our people, our faith, our peculiarities under the guise of the "fight against terrorism and Wahhabism" with the tacit consent of the international community. They have left us no choice but choose revenge. Here you are! Our first zachistka operation was successfully carried out in the Moscow metro on 6 February. "IT WASN'T MUCH, BUT IT WAS GOOD!" Remember! That was revenge for Aldy on 5-6 February 2000 [town outside Groznyy where Russian troops killed over 60 civilians]. That was only the beginning! You will soon see for yourselves what we have been experiencing for 10 years. Eye for eye! Suffering for suffering! Freedom or death! Allah-u Akbar! Allah-u Akbar! Allah-u Akbar! [Signed] Emir of the Gazoton Murdash brotherhood Lom-Ali Chechenskiy 2004-03-01 18:41:40
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Organizations site reports kidnappings in Chechnya The decomposed corpses of four unidentified men were taken to a mosque in the Shali district centre on 29 February. The bodies were found the day before in a forest between the Shali district centre and the village of Serzhen-Yurt, in a pit located in the area where the Don-2 division of the Russian Interior Ministry was previously deployed, the information centre of the Council of Nongovernment Organizations reported on 1 March. Broken limbs showed that the men had been tortured, the report said. Three Chechen residents were killed in an exchange of fire with officers of the Russian law-enforcement agencies in the village of Ali-Yurt in Ingushetia's Nazranovskiy District in the evening of 23 February. They were Mezhidov, Kurbanov and Dautmerzayev, the information centre of the Council of Nongovernment Organizations reported on 24 February. Armed people in camouflage kidnapped a student of the Chechen State University, Khamid Dokmurzayev, in central Groznyy on 22 February, the information centre reported. No motives for the kidnapping are reported. Officers of the Russian law-enforcement agencies abducted brothers Akram and Imran Edilsultanov in the village of Ishcherskaya on the night of 22 February. No charges were brought against them during the detention, the information centre said. The information centre of the Council of Nongovernment Organizations also reported a number of cases when civilians were abducted by Russian troops in the village of Chiri-Yurt in Chechnya's Shalinskiy District. Two villagers were kidnapped on 20 February. Two others were taken away in a so-called "target clearance" operation on 12 February. They were left outside the village of Shali a few days later, having been brutally beaten up. Russian troops took away two brothers in Chiri-Yurt on 11 February. The two were found unconscious outside Shali on the next day, the Council of NGOs reported. Russian soldiers detained two residents of the village of Novyye Atagi at a checkpoint on 11 February and took them to the local commandant's office. The villagers were brutally beaten up and subjected to torture and then left on the outskirts of the village of Chechen-Aul on the next morning, the information centre reported. Russian troops kidnapped a resident of the village of Avtury in Shalinskiy District, Ali Baysultanov, on 16 February. His whereabouts have not been identified yet, the information centre said. Sheykhakhmed Magomedovich Edilov, a resident of the village of Alleroy in Chechnya's Kurchaloyevskiy District and officer of the Russian Federal Security Service, was abducted on 16 February 2004, Kavkaz-Tsentr news agency web site reported on 24 February. Edilov's relatives believe that he was taken away by Sulim Yamadayev's group. Sulim Yamadayev is the commander of the Vostok special battalion of the pro-Moscow Chechen Interior Ministry. Pro-Moscow Chechen President Akhmat Kadyrov's security men led by Suleyman Abuyev kidnapped another resident of the village of Alleroy, Khamzat Usmanovich Turluyev, on 9 February 2004. Turluyev was beaten up and then returned to his relatives in a serious condition, Kavkaz- Tsentr news agency web site reported. The body of a man identified as Khuseyn Khadisovich Gadayev, 37, a resident of the village of Germenchuk in Chechnya's Shalinskiy District, was found near a cemetery outside the village on 3 February 2004. Gadayev was kidnapped by Russian troops back in March 2003, Chechenpress news agency web site reported on 24 February. His body was cut and stabbed in several places, the report said.
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