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North Caucasus Security Watch, November 10

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MOSCOW, November 10 (RIA Novosti)

Below is a summary of the main security-related events in the North Caucasus on November 10, 2005

* Dmitry Kozak, the Russian presidential envoy to the South Federal District, said Russia should study and introduce Israel's experience in countering terrorism

* Dmitry Kozak, the Russian presidential envoy to the South Federal District, accused Al Qaeda and other extremist organizations of financing terrorist activity in Chechnya

* Abdulmanap Musayev, the chief of the Daghestani Interior Ministry press service, said a terrorist act against the republic's leaders had been prevented in Daghestan

* A police source said a Chechen citizen on the federal wanted list had been detained when his car was checked on the federal highway "Crimea" that links Russia and Ukraine

* Hearings on the case of Nurpashi Kulayev charged with seizing a school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan on September 1, 2004, continued in the republic. A total of 16 eyewitnesses were summoned

* The Russian Supreme Court postponed consideration of changing the verdict for Magomed Mukhtarov, convicted to life imprisonment for organizing an explosion in the Daghestani city of Makhachkala in September 1998, due to the judge's illness

* A North Caucasian prosecutor's office press secretary said the office had launched criminal proceedings against the Rostov region's military commandant Maj. Gen. Valery Shpak. He did not specify what Shpak was charged with

* The Chechen Interior Ministry said 64 policemen had died and 230 had been wounded on duty since the start of 2005

* Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov said 122 militants, including 18 ringleaders, had been killed in Chechnya since the beginning of 2005

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