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| Blast kills police chief in Russia |
| 2006-05-17 |
| ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) -- A powerful car-bomb blast apparently set off by a suicide attacker killed a high-level police official, two of his bodyguards and four civilians in southern Russia's Ingushetia region Wednesday, authorities said. Ingushetia's Deputy Interior Minister Dzhabrail Kostoyev was riding to work in an armored car when a sedan packed with explosives blocked a road on the outskirts of the region's main city of Nazran and blew up, regional police officials and a spokesman for the Interior Ministry branch in southern Russia said. According to preliminary information, a suicide attacker was in the car that exploded, said the spokesman, Roman Shchekotin. He said Kostoyev had been traveling to work in Nazran in a column of three cars. Four civilians in at least one passing car were also killed, an official in the Ingush Interior Ministry said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record. Russian news agencies said they were innocent bystanders. Ingushetia, adjacent to war-ravaged Chechnya in Russia's restive North Caucasus, has been plagued by militant attacks, many targeting law enforcement officials and facilities. A concerted attack targeting police in Ingushetia in June 2004 killed 92 people. Kostoyev, then Nazran's police chief, was wounded in August when unknown assailants detonated a radio-controlled land mine as his car was passing. The ITAR-Tass news agency reported that a mortar shell hit his office in a February 2005 attack, but that he was not there at the time, and RIA-Novosti said his home in the village of Ekazhevo was hit by gunfire twice late last year. In another republic of the North Caucasus, Karachayevo-Cherkessiya, unidentified assailants fatally shot the acting chief of a prison in the city of Cherkessk early Wednesday outside his home. Poverty, corruption and persecution connected with Islam have fueled anger at the authorities in the North Caucasus, an ethnically mixed strip of republics, most of which have large Muslim populations. The region is troubled by violence in some cases linked to the persistent conflict in neighboring Chechnya, where two wars have been fought in the past 12 years between federal forces and separatist Chechen rebels who increasingly have espoused extremist Islamic ideology. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 Article: Poverty, corruption and persecution connected with Islam have fueled anger at the authorities in the North Caucasus, an ethnically mixed strip of republics, most of which have large Muslim populations. If there's one thing that Russia doesn't need, it's more Muslims. And yet Russia is busily trying to add Muslim-dominated sections of Georgia to Russia territory. I assume Putin has a plan. My feeling is that Putin's plan is stupid beyond words. Hitler and Stalin weren't nice people. But they understood what was in their interest and what wasn't in their interest. Putin is nowhere near as bad as either character. But compared to those two, Putin has the brain power of an amoeba. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-05-17 16:51 |
| #1 And Putin continues to suck up to Hamas and Iran. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2006-05-17 11:54 |