KHANKALA. Sept 7 (Interfax-AVN) - Arab mercenaries are demanding that militants carry out new terrorist acts, regardless of who will become victims of terrorism, Major General Ilya Shabalkin, an official with the regional headquarters directing the anti-guerilla operation in the North Caucasus, told Interfax on Tuesday.
Shabalkin said this information came from a member of the group that committed crimes in the Achkhoi-Martan and Urus-Martan districts, who voluntarily turned himself in to law enforcement agencies recently. The man also surrendered his Kalashnikov assault rifle, Shabalkin said.
The former militant says Arab mercenaries are constantly demanding new terrorist acts and their main goal is to instill fear and chaos in Chechnya. Those mercenaries do not care who the victims of the terrorist acts are, the man said.