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North Caucasus Security Watch, November 11

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MOSCOW, November 11 (RIA Novosti)

Below is a summary of the main security-related events in the North Caucasus on November 11, 2005

* Two suspects in the October 13 attack on the city of Nalchik, detained in the Chita region in Russia's Far East early Friday morning, have started providing authorities with evidence

* A militant from Doka Umarov's gang was detained in the Chechen capital of Grozny

* The Chechen Interior Ministry said an anti-terrorism center official in Chechnya had been wounded in Grozny after being fired on from a passing car

* Military prosecutors said the village of Starye Atagi in Chechnya had come under mortar fire on November 9, with five wounded due to a targeting error

* A militant was killed and a serviceman wounded in a special operation in Chechnya's Achkhoi-Martan region

* Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel said police had arrested 38 suspects to date in connection with the attack on the North Caucasus city of Nalchik in October

* Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel confirmed the presence of a former prisoner of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay among those arrested in the Nalchik attack

* Judge Vitaly Besolov said the case of three former North Ossetian policemen charged with negligence in relation to the September 2004 Beslan attack would be preliminarily heard November 15

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