This group is the one who chose Seattle as their American hub, btw.
Terrorist organization uncovered in Dagestan
Interfax. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2002, 4:27 PM Moscow Time MAKHACHKALA. Jan 31 (Interfax) - Law enforcement agencies uncovered a terrorist organization in the course of an investigation into the January 18 explosion of a truck carrying servicemen in Makhachkala. Dagestani Prosecutor Imam Yaraliyev said at a session of the republic's parliament that confessions provided by detainees showed that the terrorist group numbered over 30 guerillas, and was headed by one Rappani Khalilov of Dagestan, the prosecutor said. The discovery of the group has made it possible to combine over 10 criminal cases. In particular, it has been established that Khalilov's gang blew up a railroad in Makhachkala on September 4. On September 22 and 25, they planted explosive devices on a tree and a lamp-post near highways coming out of Makhachkala, which Dagestani Interior Ministry officers found in time and neutralized. The bandits were presumably involved in a series of attacks that took place from December 10, 2001 to January 13, 2002, during which 5 police cars and one military prosecution service automobile were blown up. The January 18 blast in Makhachkala was the gravest of all, killing 7 Russian interior troops, Yaraliyev noted. The involvement of the terrorists in the October 31, 2001 assassination attempt on the Makhachkala mayor is being looked into, he said. In the course of the investigation, over 20 people were detained, 14 of them arrested, and 12 indicted with terrorism and membership in illegal armed formations. The seven most active members of this group have been declared federally wanted, and measures to detain them have been taken
Philippine's Linked to al-Qaida (Osama's brother-in-law used local fronts to export into Albania)
Don't leave home without him!
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