October 17, 2005
Chechen Militants
:Chechen insurgents attacked at least nine police and security stations this week in coordinated daylight attacks. One police station was captured and held overnight by Chechen insurgents. As opposed to highly publicized mishaps during attacks in Moscow in 2002, Nazran in 2004, and a school in the same year where Russian forces were accused of losing civilian hostages needlessly, this response seemed to work well. Most of the 108 people killed were insurgents and there were not widespread hostage deaths.