KHANKALA. May 14 (Interfax-AVN) - The unified federal headquarters in the North Caucasus has obtained information that a courier carrying a huge sum of money from Azerbaijan is to arrive in the Kirov-Yurt village of Chechnya's Vedeno district in the first half of May.
The money is needed for stepping up sabotage and terrorist activities in southern and southeastern districts of the breakaway republic, a spokesman for the group headquarters told Interfax-Military News Agency on Tuesday.
After the death of warlord Khattab extremists' sponsors are trying to restore financing of rebel groups with a goal to beef up their activities. This is indirectly confirmed by reports on numerous attempts to recruit people for execution of sabotage acts. The money for rebels is being delivered to Chechnya mostly through Georgia and Azerbaijan.
According to the spokesman, two kamikaze women have arrived in the Urus-Martan district in order to step up psychological pressure on local residents. They are tasked to carry out terrorist acts towards high-ranking officials of the federal command.
Intelligence reports say that groups of young men have been leaving villages in the Naurskaya, Nadterechny and Shelkovskaya districts over the past few weeks to earn money in southern and southeastern districts of Chechnya. The federal command does not rule out that some of those men are heading for the Vedeno, Shatoi and Nozhai-Yurt districts to reactivate mothballed training bases and a network of arms and ammo caches.