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| Russian police kill eight suspected Islamist militants in North Caucasus |
| 2013-05-09 |
| Russian police officers killed eight suspected Islamist militants in the volatile North Causcasus region where insurgents are fighting to establish an Islamic state, Russia's anti-terrorism agency said on Thursday. Four were shot dead in a rural region of predominantly Muslim Dagestan, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said. "(The men) opened fire with automatic weapons on law enforcement officials and as a result of the firefight the militants were fatally wounded," the agency said in a statement. Three others were killed in separate firefights in two other regions of Dagestan. An eighth suspected rebel was killed in the nearby North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria. Russian security forces are trying to staunch an insurgency in the North Caucasus, between the Caspian and the Black Sea, where militants want to establish an Islamist state. Dagestan, on the Caspian Sea, is the epicenter of the insurgency. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 Reduces trial & prison costs, |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-05-09 19:31 |
| #2 It's a start .... |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-05-09 18:30 |
| #1 and dat's the end of dat. 'sounds of hands, dusting' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2013-05-09 17:11 |