Another Chechen Jihad Update: "Militancy Reportedly Rising Outside Chechnya," from [1] Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, with thanks to Twostellas:

Russia; August 25, 2006 -- The head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says militants are becoming more active in southern Russian republics neighboring Chechnya.

Nikolai Patrushev attributed the change to successes scored by security forces against militants in Chechnya itself.

He says that over the past seven months, militants carried out 18 "terrorist" acts in Ingushetia and 11 in North Ossetia, twice as many as in the same period of 2005.