A series of explosions in Chechnya have left three people wounded, local law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
The first explosion occurred on a road in the southeast of the troubled North Caucasus region, wounding a military serviceman from a reconnaissance group.
Two other explosions occurred in the Gudermes district, about 20 miles east of the regional capital, Grozny. The first blast, at a railway bridge, wounded a policeman, while the second injured a local female resident.
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But hey, George Mason is demonstrating his solidarity with the Paleos, so let's call it even... (photo hat tip LGF)
Muslims in Albania's northern city of Shkoder are opposing plans to erect a statue to Mother Teresa, the ethnic Albanian Catholic nun in line for elevation to sainthood by the Vatican. The dispute is unusual for Albania,
But not at all unusual for Dar-al-Islam,
where religion was banned for 27 years under the dictator Enver Hoxha, and "mixed" marriages are the norm. Seventy per cent of the population are moderate liberal Muslims,
who are ever so tolerant and inclusive...
the rest are Christian Orthodox and Catholic. But Muslim groups in Shkoder rejected the local council plan for a statue, saying it "would offend the feelings of Muslims".
"We do not want this statue to be erected in a public place, because we see her as a religious figure," said Bashkim Bajraktari, Shkoder's mufti, a Muslim religious leader. Several residents said they felt there was an underground effort to treat Shkoder as a Catholic town, ignoring its majority Muslim community. Shkoder's Muslims recently protested against crosses being erected on prominent hilltops around the city.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
