Jihad in Caucasus Emirate quickly grows

1 April 2011

A Moscow' paper Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported good news about the growth of Jihad in the Caucasus Emirate. It writes in particular:

"There is an undeclared guerrilla war going on in the Caucasus and its scale is ever growing. The main focus of the tensions is centered in the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic (KBR) and Dagestan. A significant number of Russian internal troops have been deployed in those regions.

The chief of staff of internal troops of the interior ministry, general-colonel Bunin, considers the situation in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria as "unstable."

"Around 6,000 military personnel of the internal troops have been deployed in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria," Bunin said on Monday.

At the same time, he emphasized that such a troop buildup is only a redeployment of interior troops within the North Caucasus.

The situation in KBR and Dagestan is a cause of much anxiety.

In 2010, the internal troops stationed in the North Caucasus were reinforced with an artillery regiment of the 46th division of the operational brigade (Jokhar, Province of Chechnya) - KC) and the 450th division of the special motorized battalion (Kaspiysk, Province of Dagestan - KC).

"6,000 army soldiers which are now stationed in Dagestan and KBR are twelve full battle battalions, a military expert col. Popov points out. - The number of the troops being sent to the troubled republics is increasing. There is an undeclared guerrilla war going there. And, I regret to tell you, the scale of it is ever increasing."

Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center

Source: Kavkaz Center.
Link: http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2011/04/01/13997.shtml.