Ingush leader urges clerics abstain from discussing counter-terrorism

Ingush Leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov says that Doku Umarov, the mist well-known Chechen terrorist leader and head of the Caucasus Imarat, may be hiding in the republic, RIA Novosti reports.

Yevkurov has commented on the murder of a deputy mufti of North Ossetia, stating that Ingushetia was doing its best to protect clerics. He reminded that there had been three reports about attacks plotted against clerics in 2012.

The Ingush leader urged clerics to abstain from mentioning counter-terrorism in their preaches.