LiveLeak.com - Rare Footage of Nalchik Attack

The 2005 Nalchik attack was a raid by a large group of militants on Nalchik (pop. 250,000), in theKabardino-Balkar Republic (KBR) of southern Russia, on 13 October 2005.
A number of buildings associated with the Russian security forces were targeted. More than 100 people (142 according to official tallies), including at least 14 civilians, were reported to have been killed during the ensuing shooting, which continued into the next day. Many other people were wounded.
After the raid, Arsen Kanokov, the newly appointed president of the KBR, admitted publicly that it could have been triggered at least in part by brutal crackdowns by local police.
There was an uncertainty about the size of the rebel force. Russian sources put the figure at between 80 and 300, while Basayev claimed that 217 fighters had been involved. Police told the news agencyTASS that the attackers had operated in 10 mobile groups, each with a different set of targets.MSNBC reported several statements made by Deputy Interior Minister Andrei Novikov to reporters in Nalchik. In particular Novikov announced that:
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[*]Ilyas Gorchkhanov had led the attack, and had been killed[/*]
• two-thirds of the militants were local residents
• there had been at least 100 attackers in all
• most were 20 to 30 years of age

According to kavkazcenter, the operation had been "carried out by forces of the Kabardino-Balkarian Sector of the CF (Caucasian Front) and associated units from other sectors of the Caucasian Front," with "217 Mujahideen" in all participating.
Asked about who might have been behind the rebel raid on Nalchik, pro-Kremlin prime minister ofChechnya Ramzan Kadyrov answered that Chechens had nothing to do with it:
"If Chechens had been there, then it wouldn't have ended so quickly. It was their own people there. It was weak guys, which is why it ended quickly — they got the better of them in two hours."


source: liveleak.com