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RUSSIA: Chechen Rebels Bushwacked
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| September 27, 2002
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Posted on 09/27/2002 4:19:41 PM PDT by Destro
RUSSIA: Chechen Rebels Bushwacked
Maj.-Gen. Valery Gerasimov, center, commander of Russia's 58th army, and other officials look at a flag captured from rebels during fighting near the village of Galashki, 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Nazran, in the Russian republic of Ingushetia near the border with Chechnya, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2002. A Russian military helicopter was shot down early Thursday in Galashki, killing two crewmen, the Russian Defense Ministry said. At least 10 Russian servicemen were killed in fierce fighting with rebels.(AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
A Russian officer looks at the bodies of Chechen fighters killed in combat near the village of Galashki, 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Nazran in the Russian republic of Ingushetia near the border with Chechnya, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2002. Ten Russian soldiers were killed and 15 wounded in fighting in the region of Galashki over the past 24 hours, said an official in the headquarters of the Russian 58th army. Eighty rebels were also killed, headquarters officials said. Russian news media and military officials routinely inflate Chechen casualty figures.(AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
September 27, 2002; Ambushed in Ingushtia?- The Islamic rebels long active in Chechnya are redoubling their efforts to carry the fight beyond their old battlefield, and have made an end-run into Russia's other southern republics. In order to make it out of Georgia before the winter snows closed the high passes, a large group of fighters moved covertly along several passes and into what the Russians would soon claim was a deliberately laid trap (based on informants' information). The battle's objectives were obvious: the rebels were attempting to break through to Chechnya, the army set out to trap and eliminate them all.
58th Army commander Lieutenant General Valery Gerasimov said the rebels paid $7,000 to a Georgian to lead them from Georgia into Ingushtia. The first contact was on 20 September, a rebel group attacked a military vehicle near the village of Tarskoye in North Ossetia and then fired on a military helicopter.
A reconnaissance patrol of Russian police from Ingushetia and North Ossetia, along with Federal 58th Joint Arms Army troops, engaged elements of this same rebel group near the Ingush town of Galashki on the night of 24 September. The situation quickly snowballed, when the patrol engaged another group of rebels the next morning and claiming to have wounded several. The mountainous border area is about 12 miles from the border with Chechnya. The village of 6,000 has about 1,500 Chechen refugees (Ingushtia is home to about 140,000 refugees from the brutal fighting in Chechnya).
This particular rebel group was led by field commander Abdul Malik and had earlier been deployed in the Pankisi Gorge (at that time, they mustered up to 300 fighters) and were reportedly subordinate to Chechen field commander Ruslan Gelayev's own group.
At 08.00 on the 26th, the rebels fired five shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles and brought down one Mi-24 gunship near the village. Both crewmen were killed. The rebels also fired on a second helicopter, but did not damage it. An Su-25 bombed the village, with smoking rising after it's run. The Federals claimed to have killed and wounded 30 rebels, while suffering 10 wounded.
By 09:20 Moscow time (0520 GMT), the 150-strong group were trying to break through to three bridges across the Assa River and slip into Chechnya. The army moved armored vehicles to block the approaches to the bridges. The army cordon was backed by Ingush Interior Ministry personnel. Civilians in the village were hiding or on the run. An air-mobile landing party was moved in to block higher passes. Russian Armed Forces Chief-of-Staff Anatoly Kvashnin had supposedly personally taken control of the Gakashki operation.
Across the border, the North Caucasus Combined Federal Forces headquarters deployed more troops in the Achkhoi- Martan district, in order to prevent a rebel breakthrough from Ingushetia. Within Chechnya, small groups moving into the dilapidated silos (leftover from a Soviet missile regiment) near the village of Bamut. The Russians believed that these groups had moved out of the mountains to mass and link up with the group attempting to force the border.
By noon, the army casualty list had grown to 10 troops and policemen killed and 17 wounded (three of them critically), while claiming 50 to 70 rebel casualties. ORT television said that up to 20 troops had been killed. The Chechen version was that their groups had withdrawn, leaving only rearguards. They figured to have inflicted 40 deaths for seven of their own killed and ten wounded. They also claimed to have knocked out two APCs.
Among the dead were Arabs, Turks and a Georgian. One of the bodies was 30 year old British citizen Roderick John Scott's, who had a video camera, videotapes, a notebook kept in English and a satellite phone on his person. He was apparently working for British company Frontline Television.
The Ingush Interior Ministry said that the village was back to normal as of 15:00 p.m. Moscow time (1100 GMT), with most of the remaining rebels broke into small groups and were blockaded in a forest about 10 miles away. Federal troops also seized arms, including an "IGLA" surface to air missile.
The pro-Russian Chechen Government accused Georgia of supporting rebels allegedly based on its territory. He described the Pankisi Gorge as 'greenhouse conditions' for their operations.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Russia
KEYWORDS: chechnya
Be afraid Saudi Wahhabists, be very afraid.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Azerbaijan leader Haydar Aliyev share a toast after a signing ceremony in Moscow's Kremlin, September 23, 2002. Russia and Azerbaijan signed a bilateral accord on Monday on dividing the Caspian Sea, the second such deal Moscow has tied up with a state bordering the oil-rich sea. REUTERS/Yuri Kadobnov/POOL
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posted on
09/27/2002 4:19:41 PM PDT
by
Destro
To: American Beerdrinkers Party
bump
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posted on
09/27/2002 4:29:18 PM PDT
by
Destro
To: Destro
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posted on
09/27/2002 4:36:45 PM PDT
by
JCG
To: Destro
That's not just any flag. That's the flag of jihad, it says "There is no God but Allah" or something like that. Seeing it lying on the ground at the feet of a Christian general warms my heart. This is a very great insult to the Islamists. Too bad they didn't pour bacon grease and shit on it, right on the name of Allah, and send the pix off to Al-Jazeera.
-ccm
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posted on
09/27/2002 5:58:33 PM PDT
by
ccmay
To: Destro
A toast to Russia!
To: Marine Inspector; sleavelessinseattle; 2Trievers; swarthyguy; Lazamataz; Snow Bunny; MistyCA; ...
Religion of Peace Ping.
Gotta love these pics! Dead Wahabbis = good Wahabbis.
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posted on
09/27/2002 9:08:44 PM PDT
by
PsyOp
To: PsyOp
Hate to break the news to you, but 2Trievers got banned tonight for pissing off the bushbots.
To: Marine Inspector
What's he say? THe Bushes are up to their neck in Saudi money?
To: swarthyguy
Like Mexico, the Saudi's are very special friends of the Bush's.
Those Bush's just love cheap labor and oil.
To: Destro
Be afraid Saudi Wahhabists, be very afraid. Just this photo is enough to make ME afraid. Look at the guy at the bottom, obviously shot point-blank in the face (and solar plexus, as an afterthought). Perhaps we should give Russia drilling rights in Iraq in exchange for bringing their Chechnya dog-and-pony show to Riyadh.
To: Marine Inspector; PsyOp; swarthyguy; VaBthang4
Hate to break the news to you, but 2Trievers got banned tonight for pissing off the bushbots. -Marine Inspector What did 2Trievers do? I do not know him as well as i do some other freepers but i remember some of his posts and i liked many of them. What exactly did he say ....and how bad were his statements for him to be banned?
Why would someone get banned for saying something against GW? I like GW a lot and support him ......however if he did something i did not agree with and i posted my thoughts on FR would I also get banned?
I thought FR meant FreeRepublic!
Unless he did something else i do not think he should have been banned.
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posted on
09/28/2002 3:38:47 AM PDT
by
spetznaz
To: ccmay
I think I'd have to fight an overwhelming urge to unrinate on it. Funny, Georgia has had this giant Anti-"criminal" operation (would have worked better in Bilisi) for almost 2 months now and seems to have missed all these guys....well, except for the 2 arabs who were to stoned to figure out to leave in the two weeks advertised prior to the operation.....wonder how that happened from Honoest John Shevi?
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posted on
09/28/2002 3:41:31 AM PDT
by
Stavka2
To: spetznaz
I don't know exactly what was said by 2Trievers, the thread called "Suggestions for FR" was pulled" was pulled.
SHE e-mailed me and this this was the stated reason "Look, there is really no reason for you to have this account. See ya". Not sure if it came from a moderator or JimRob.
She can now be found on LibertyPost.org, which is were I spend about half of my time now.
FR is only a FREE Republic as long as you agree with Bush, 110 percent. I'm sure I'll be banned soon also.
To: spetznaz
I give FR the benefit of the doubt before I do another poster. I would like to know what he said.
To: Marine Inspector
The current disunity and 'debate' we are seeing in this country would not be happening if our troops were marching out of Prince Sultan to occupy the oil fields.
Anybody remember Operation Infinite Justice?
Anyone remember Powell acting chummy with Musharraf?
Anybody remember Powell's line about the 'moderate' Taliban at a press conference in Islamabad?
Anybody remember our shameless toadying and hosting of the perverted princes of Saudi in Crawford?
Now i can understand how anti Nazi Americans felt all through the 30's. At least after Japan attacked us, we didn't make the overthrow of Horthy in Hungary our prime objective.
To: swarthyguy
Agreed.
Bush is going after Sadam for two reasons: OIL & REVENGE.
I agree that Sadam needs to be removed and is a threat, but the bigger threat is our wide-open borders and the folks that are using them to bring destruction to the U.S.
Secure the borders, root out the terrorist that are here and abroad and then go after Sadam.
To: Marine Inspector
People blame the rank and file when the true blame lies higher up.
After the Buffalo 6, some of whom were BORN here, how can we trust any of them?
And the universities, dependent on foreign students paying full tuition fees, are reluctant to put national security before their fees.
The tolerance and welcome mat of America is and has been severely abused.
To: swarthyguy
Agreed.
Unfortunatly it may take another attack before those idiots in Washington wake up.
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