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Rebels under the command of Rasul Makasharipov have been killing policemen, judges and prosecutors in Dagestan since 2002. The number of their victims has already reached 30 people.

Chechen law enforcers are checking information about the happening and searching for the people who went away in a car together with Said Husein Deniyev, said an officer of the Chechen Interior Ministry.

They will assure the safety of people in the villages of Ganmukhuri and Khurcha in Georgia's Zugdidi district, announced Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania.

Journalist Alan Parastayev, director of the Center for Humanitarian Studies and Initiatives, was savagely beaten on the Transkam road near the Osetia tourist center at about 11 p.m. on December 30, when he made an attempt to obtain from South Osetian law enforcers information about a column of cars they had detained earlier.

"Sessions of the Government, the Security Council, and the Interior Ministry are broadcast every day. Everybody claims we should fight hard against the abductors of people, but nothing happens in reality," an abducted man's close relative said.

"The rumors that the attack on the Anti-Drug Department is an anti-Kabardian action organized by Balkarians are very alarming," head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center Valery Khatazhukov said.

Some sources say that the arms seized during the attack in Kabardino-Balkaria have most likely been taken out to Chechnya.

Earlier, at a session of the State Duma, Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Kolesnikov suggested taking terrorists' relatives hostages.

Criminals killed four officers who were on duty that night and set the building on fire after it. They seized 79 automatic rifles, 182 pistols, and ammunition.

Chechen law enforcement agencies have not confirmed reports that close relatives of Aslan Maskadov, president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, were taken hostages.

Some 8 thousand children tramp in Azerbaijan, official sources say. Approximately 20% of them are children who arrived in Azerbaijan from Russia.

Special services know Alikhan Saduyev, whose nickname is Dodi, as one of the organizers of a series of terror attacks in Chechnya and Ingushetia, including the explosions at the buildings of the Chechen Government House and the FSB Department in Ingushetia.

The killed rebel has been identified. He turned out to be Akhmet Sambiyev, Shamil Basayev's closest associate and a successor of Arab Abu Kuteib Akhmet, reported the FSB Department in Ingushetia.

The murder of seven businessmen was not the first crime in Karachaevo-Cherkessia connected with the redistribution of property, an informed source told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

Aslan Usmayev, and Vakhit and Abubakar Abuyevs were captured by rebels from Akhmed Avdorkhanov's group, who assaulted the Alleroy village on the night of May 1.