Open Source INTSUM: Friday, Oct. 14, 2005

[Airbornelawyer]

Various Sources:

Terrorism arrests in the Netherlands:
Dutch police make terror arrests (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4341784.stm) (BBC)
Dutch police make arrests in anti-terror raids (http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-10-14T122811Z_01_WRI439727_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SECURITY-DUTCH.xml) (Reuters)
Zeven arrestaties bij anti-terreuractie (http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/26900531/ZEVEN_ARRESTATIES_BIJ_ANTI-TERREURACTIE.html) (De Telegraaf)

Weakening Indonesia's Mujahidin Networks: Lessons from Maluku and Poso (http://63.247.134.60/~pobbs/archives/002012weakening_indonesias_mujahidin_networks_less ons_from_maluku_and_poso.html) (from Security Watchtower (http://63.247.134.60/~pobbs/)) – Review of a new report from the International Crisis Group of the same title. The full report is available here (http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/asia/indonesia/103_weakening_indonesia_mujahidin_networks_lessons _fr_maluku__poso.pdf), in PDF format.

South Asia Terrorism Update (http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=10/14/2005#1)


From Bill Roggio's blog, The Fourth Rail (http://billroggio.com/):

Iraqi Security Forces Update (http://billroggio.com/archives/2005/10/iraqi_security_1.php)
Haditha, Haqlaniyah and Barwana – A Permanent Presence (http://billroggio.com/archives/2005/10/haditha_haqlani_1.php)

From the daily reports of Strategie & Technik, a German defense affairs journal:

14.10.05: Sudan: UN-Mitarbeiter werden aus Darfur abgezogen. Wegen der zunehmenden Gewalt in der sudanesischen Krisenregion Darfur wollen die Vereinten Nationen einen Großteil ihres Personals abziehen. Die heftigen Kämpfe hatten die UN-Mitarbeiter gezwungen, sich nur noch in kleinen Gebieten aufhalten zu können. Die UN-Hilfe hat die etwa 650 000 Flüchtlinge seit Mittwoch nicht mehr erreichen können.

Sudan: UN Workers withdrawn from Darfur. The UN will withdraw a large portion of its personnel due to increasing violence in the Sudanese crisis region of Darfur. The heavy fighting has forced the UN workers to stay in small areas. UN aid has not been able to reach the approximately 650,000 refugees since Wednesday.

14.10.05: Türkei: Kurdische Rebellen töten türkische Soldaten. Im Osten der Türkei haben kurdische Rebellen fünf türkische Soldaten getötet. Ein weiterer wurde schwer verwundet. Die türkischen Streitkräfte haben daraufhin mit Hubschraubern die Verfolgung der Rebellen aufgenommen.

Turkey: Kurdish rebels kill Turkish soldiers. In the east of Turkey Kurdish rebels have killed five Turkish soldiers. Another was seriously wounded. The Turkish armed forces thereupon took up pursuit of the rebels by helicopter.

[Airbornelawyer]

From the RFE/RL Newsline (http://www.rferl.org/newsline/):

Russia

POLICE, TROOPS RESTORE CONTROL OVER NALCHIK... Russian police, security forces, and army troops succeeded by mid-morning local time on 14 October in storming the two locations -- a police station and a souvenir shop -- where several armed militants were holding out in Nalchik, killing the fighters in question, Russian media reported. But regnum.ru reported on 14 October that one district of the city remains cordoned off, and a group of militants subjected a police post in Khasanya on the outskirts of the city to mortar fire, killing two policemen.
... AS QUESTIONS REMAIN OVER MILITANTS' NATIONALITY, NUMBERS Russian and international media have cited diverging estimates of the number of fighters who participated in the Nalchik attack, their ethnicity, and the casualties they sustained. "The Guardian" on 14 October quoted Fedor Shcherbakov, spokesman for Presidential Envoy to the Southern Federal District Dmitrii Kozak, as saying there were "dozens" of fighters, "all from different parts of the North Caucasus," but apparently all residents of the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic (KBR). Shcherbakov said 20 militants were killed and 19 arrested. The "Financial Times" said local officials variously estimated the number of attackers at between 80-200, or even as many as 300, and quoted unnamed Russian Interior Ministry officials as saying that 50 militants, 12 Interior Ministry troops, and at least 12 civilians were killed in the fighting. RIA Novosti on 14 October quoted KBR security officials as saying 61 fighters have been killed, 27 apprehended, and a total of 24 Russian police and special forces personnel killed. Some 120 residents of Nalchik have been hospitalized with injuries, regnum.ru reported late on 13 October.
PUTIN ORDERS SHOOT-ON-SIGHT POLICY IN NALCHIK... First Deputy Interior Minister Aleksandr Chekalin briefed President Vladimir Putin on 13 October about the raid on Nalchik, RTR and other media reported. Putin ordered Chekalin to surround Nalchik with troops "so nobody can slip out of the city" and to "shoot on sight all armed attackers offering resistance." At press briefings on 13-14 October, Chekalin said that Nalchik is sealed off with a double perimeter of troops, RTR and Channel One reported. On 14 October, Russian special forces managed to quash one of two remaining pockets of resistance in the city. RIA-Novosti reported. Deputy Prosecutor-General Vladimir Kolesnikov said on 13 October that most of the attackers belong to the local Yarmuk militant group, led by Anzor Astemirov, who was killed during the fighting, RTR reported. Russian officials claimed to have wiped out Yarmuk in two raids in Nalchik in January and April of this year. Meanwhile, General Yurii Baluevskii, the chief of the Russian Army's General Staff, said he has no indications from military intelligence that radical Chechen field commander Shamil Basaev was behind or took part in the attack, NTV reported.
...AS EXPERTS CONSIDER RAID TO BE POLITICAL AND INTELLIGENCE FAILURE Former KGB Colonel Sergei Goncharov, the chairman of a veterans' association for the Alfa antiterrorism force, said on 13 October that events in Nalchik show that militants can carry out well-planned full-scale operations throughout the North Caucasus, ej.ru reported. "I cannot name any republic in the North Caucasus where the law-enforcement system is working. Everywhere there is pervasive corruption and complete treachery. It is laughable to talk about fighting terror," he said. Goncharov also said that the current federal policy in the North Caucasus has failed and it is necessary to introduce direct federal rule in the North Caucasian republics. Gennadii Gudkov (Unified Russia), a member of the Duma Security Committee and former security-service officer, said on 13 October that events in Nalchik show the "helplessness of the Federal Security Service [FSB], Interior Ministry, and other law-enforcement agencies riddled with corruption," polit.ru reported. The raid on Nalchik shows that the FSB and Interior Ministry have failed to penetrate the militant organizations, as they have managed to launch a well-planned and well-equipped attack, Gudkov said

Southwestern Asia And The Middle East

U.S. SOLIDER CHARGED WITH PRISONER-ABUSE CASE Staff Sergeant Brian Doyle was charged with dereliction of duty and maltreatment for ordering another solider to beat an Afghan detainee who later died in the U.S. military facility in Bagram, north of Kabul, the BBC reported on 13 October. Doyle was also accused of not preventing maltreatment of Afghan detainees by his subordinates. The detainee in question, identified as Habibullah, died in December 2002.
NATO RULES OUT SENDING TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN TO HELP IN QUAKE-RELIEF WORK IN PAKISTAN On 12 October NATO announced that troops and helicopters attached to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan will not be sent to Pakistan to help in the rescue efforts in the aftermath of the devastating South Asian earthquake (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 11 October 2005), the Karachi daily "Dawn" reported on 13 October, though its aircraft will continue to transport relief supplies from Europe to Pakistan. The first NATO aircraft from Europe reached Pakistan on 13 October and the alliance is planning to dispatch helicopters by sea if they are required in the rescue operations. NATO said that ISAF is stretched to its limit in Afghanistan. NATO member states that have troops or equipment under their national command are free to move them to Pakistan.