HEAVY WEAPONS MAY BE USED IN SPECIAL OPERATIONS

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ROSTOV-ON-DON, February 17 (RIA Novosti) - Presidential plenipotentiary in the Southern Federal District Dmitri Kozak has said that antiterrorist special operations with the use of heavy weapons will be repeated if necessary.

"If there's no other way out, we will not expose Russian servicemen to risk", Mr. Kozak told journalists on Thursday after a sitting of the antiterrorist commission for the Southern Federal District.

It assessed the conduct of special operations in Daghestan, Ingushetia and other North Caucasian republics where large-scale destruction was caused, he said.

"As regards citizens reporting terrorists hiding in their homes, it will certainly be decided fully to make up for the damage and the lost property", Mr. Kozak assured.

At the same time, he stressed that "when citizens hide criminals they cannot hope for a compensation".

In his opinion, large-scale special operations carried out in the North Caucasus last month set an example of efficiency of the law-enforcement agencies.

Mr.Kozak described the situation in Daghestan as complex. "Criminals, terrorists are being reinvigorated in Daghestan", he said.

An attempt was recently made in Kizlyar on the life of the republic's deputy prime minister, head of the Daghestan branch of the Federal Pension Fund, Amuchi Amutinov. Three persons were killed. Mr. Amutinov and secretary of the Daghestani Security Council Akhmed-Nabi Magdigadzhiev, riding in the same office armoured Mercedes, did not suffer. Several days ago General Magomed Omarov, Interior Minister of Daghestan, was killed in Makhachkala.

"We'll step up work to prevent such terrorist acts", Mr. Kozak said.

Chiefs of the power structures of the North Caucasian region participated in the sitting of the antiterrorist commission for the Southern Federal District.

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