MOSCOW, March 5, 2004. (RIA Novosti) - Staff of the Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) prevented on Thursday a major act of terror which militants planned to stage in one of the cities of the Southern Federal District (SFD) by suicide bombers, Ilya Shabalkin, an official spokesman for the regional headquarters for the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, told RIA Novosti.
According to him, on the day before operatives of the FSB department for Chechnya and Stavropol Territory spotted, in the village of Alkha-Yurt of the Urus-Martan district, two camouflaged cars VAZ-2106 and Gaz-24, stuffed with three hundred kilograms of explosive. Wires for detonating the bombs had been taken out to the passenger compartment.
