Men of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and of the Russian Interior Ministry troops have staged a special operation in Chechnya, which disrupted the channels of financing the gangs and the system of training would-be women suicide bombers, General Ilya Shabalkin, representative of the Regional Operational Staff for controlling the counterterrorist operation in the Northern Caucasus, told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
According to his information, Natalia Khalkayeva, a would-be woman suicide bomber, who is also known under the name of Heda Khalkayeva, was arrested as a result of the operation. She is the sister of Hasan Khalkayev, who maintained contacts with Arbi Barayev and Islam Chalayev — the ringleaders who were destroyed physically. According to the information of the Regional Operational Staff, they engaged in abducting people living in the Krasnodar Territory with the aim to get a ransom for them. |