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| Car Blast in Russia’s Dagestan Kills Policeman after ISIL Claims Earlier Attack | |
| 2016-03-31 | |
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] One policeman was killed and another injured when a car went kaboom!at a checkpoint in Russia's volatile region of Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republiccurrently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... Wednesday, local police said, hours after another officer died in a bombing claimed by the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... group, ISIL.
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| Posted by:Fred |