{"id":1113,"date":"2005-10-13T22:57:38","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T03:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2005-10-13T22:58:47","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T03:58:47","slug":"74-dead-as-islamic-militants-stage-attacks-in-southern-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"74 Dead as Islamic Militants Stage Attacks in Southern Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radical elements of the Religion o&#8217; Peace are at it again, and yet again Russia is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-101305shootout_lat,0,1366339.story?coll=la-story-footer&#038;track=morenews\">facing the brunt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Islamic militants staged coordinated attacks on police and government buildings in the southern Russian city of Nalchik today, as fresh violence spilled over from war-torn Chechnya to the broader North Caucasus region.<\/p>\n<p>By early evening, 12 police, 12 civilians and more than 50 guerrillas had died in the day&#8217;s fighting, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>As night fell, militants were holding several people hostage in a Nalchik police station, Russian First Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Chekalin told reporters. Three guerrillas were also barricaded in a souvenir shop, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Chekalin estimated the number of militants involved in the attacks at a maximum of 100, but other officials said there could be up to 300 involved.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir V. Putin ordered the city of 235,000 be cordoned off to prevent militants from escaping overnight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president gave an instruction that not one gunman should be allowed to leave the town, and those who are armed and putting up resistance must be wiped out,&#8221; Chekalin said after meeting Putin, the Russian news agency Interfax reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve asked <a href=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=981\">before<\/a>, but isn&#8217;t it about time that we acknowledge that Russia is facing that same expansionist Islamic threat that the U.S. and its allies are fighting elsewhere?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/gatewaypundit.blogspot.com\/\">Gateway Pundit<\/a> is all over this story <a href=\"http:\/\/gatewaypundit.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/chechen-terrorists-attack-city-airport.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gatewaypundit.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/basayev-dead-or-alive.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radical elements of the Religion o&#8217; Peace are at it again, and yet again Russia is facing the brunt. Islamic militants staged coordinated attacks on police and government buildings in the southern Russian city of Nalchik today, as fresh violence spilled over from war-torn Chechnya to the broader North Caucasus region. By early evening, 12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}