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Ali Taziyev, once of leaders of islamic separatist movement of North Caucasus Emirate, has been captured by russian secrets Services (Fsb). The man has been taken near Ingushetia and brought in Moscow.
Anna Politkovskaya was killed in her condominium in Moscow on October 7 2006. In her computer had another article against Ramzan Kadyroy, man that today is president of Chechnya.
For seven years the journalist wrote about this little republic of Russia Federation such as a black hole of conscience, where rapes, tortures and massacres were normal for soldiers and militias.
«A place - sustained - where many can do what they want and others have to accept it. Russia continues to permit that exist a place of country where civils rights don’t exist. It is a very risky choice» («A little corner of hell», Rizzoli 2008). Four years have passed since her death. Chechnya is still that «place»?
The pro-government militia group of Ahlu Sunnah Waljama (ASW) in Somalia on Friday claimed they killed at least 91 Islamist fighters and wounded 170 others in Thursday’s fierce clashes with rebel forces in Mogadishu.
The group which is allied to the Somali government said it also captured two vehicles loaded with weapons and ammunition supplies from the radical Islamist group of Al Shabaab opposed to the Somali government.
The fierce battles on Thursday left at least 20 civilians dead and almost 60 others injured after allied Somali government forces and the pro-government militias backed by African Union peacekeeping forces launched an early morning offensive on rebel positions in Mogadishu.
Qatari mediators brokered an agreement between the Djiboutian and the Eritrean governments after months of shuttle diplomacy. Qatar has deployed its forces on the border between the two countries starting late Tuesday night; and by Wednesday morning, the forces had been deployed on the entire disputed areas between the two countries. The number of the Qatari forces is estimated to be several hundred soldiers
Reached by telephone in Djibouti, Mr. Mohammed Taha Tewekel, the director of Gulf News Center confirmed the news. Though Djibouti hosts American and French forces, it is not known whether they had any role in the deployment.
Djibouti’s rebel Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD) said Monday that it had fought off two attacks by the army and killed three soldiers, in a statement sent to Nairobi.
Last Friday and Saturday, “the army undertook two attacks against fighters of the FRUD in the north of Djibouti, near Bouya (close to the Ethiopian border) and at Eshatou Asmadera (35 kilometres, 22 miles from Obock), the statement said.
“These attacks were pushed back on the two fronts by FRUD fighters,” the rebel movement said, adding that two government soldiers were killed at Bouya and one died at Eshatou.
“Tensions are very high in the regions of Mabla, Moussa Ali and Bouya”, according to the rebels, who “impute the entire responsibility for this escalation to the obstinacy of the regime in locking itself into the logic of war.”