RFE/RL: 'Veteran Arab Field Commander' Killed In Daghestan
posted by circassiankama on February, 2010 as DAGESTAN
'Veteran Arab Field Commander' Killed In Daghestan
February 04, 2010
The Federal Security Service (FSB) in Daghestan has identified
one of two militants killed late on February 2 in Botlikh Raion (on the
border with Chechnya) as Egyptian citizen Mohmad Mohamad Shabaan, known
by the nom de guerre Seyf-Islam.
The Daghestan FSB claimed that
Seyf-Islam was part of an Al-Qaeda network operating in the North
Caucasus, and that it was he who masterminded the suicide-bomb attack
on January 6 on an Interior Ministry base in Makhachkala in which six
police officers were killed. The website ingushetia.org,
citing ITAR-TASS, claimed that the FSB in Moscow has evidence that
Seyf-Islam organized an unspecified number of acts of sabotage
operations targeting oil pipelines, railways, and power lines at the
behest of Georgian intelligence.
According to the FSB,
Seyf-Islam, one of the pleiad of field commanders whose portraits ...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (left) meets with Daghestan's Mukhu Aliyev in Sochi in 2008.
February 04, 2010
Seven prominent academicians and writers have written
to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev asking him to renominate
Daghestan's incumbent President Mukhu Aliyev for a second term. They
point out that recent opinion polls show that over 50 percent of the
population wants Aliyev, who is 69 and reputedly in poor health, to
serve a second term.
The signatories argue that Medvedev's unexplained delay
in deciding between the five prospective candidates proposed by the
republican chapter of the pro-Kremlin Unified Russia party has given
rise to an unprecedented barrage of mud-slinging that is destabilizing
the political situation. (One report in mid-January alleged that Aliyev's relatives collected $30 million as a bribe to ensure he remains president.)
The
signatories also criticize the inclusion in the ...
Magomedsalam Magomedov has difficult decisions to make if he wants to preserve ''ethnic parity.''
February 17, 2010
Just eight days after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev named
Magomedsalam Magomedov to succeed Mukhu Aliyev as president of
Daghestan, that republic's third-largest ethnic group has taken to the
streets to protest
the violation of the unwritten agreement on the distribution between
the various nationalities of the three top leadership posts.
Between
500 and over 2,000 Kumyks attended a meeting in Makhachkala on February
16 to protest the anticipated dismissal of the republic's Prime
Minister Shamil Zaynalov (a Kumyk) following Magomedov's inauguration.
Attendance at the demonstration would reportedly have been far higher
had not police and security forces cordoned off the square where it
took place.
The Makhachkala correspondent for the Russian daily "Kommersant"
reported that the angry Kumyks adopted an appeal to ...
This file photo shows the Taşkışla barracks in İstanbul after artillery
was fired by the Hareket Ordusu (Action Army) to suppress the March 31
Rebellion, which aimed to put an end to the Second Constitutional Era
in the Ottoman Empire in 1909.
"It was the wedding anniversary from hell.” That was Peter’s summary comment in a recent e-mail.
As
an anthropologist, he was in Dagestan with his Russian wife last month,
researching the local people. Taking a break from work, they went into
the town center in ...
Key West, February 9 – President Dmitry Medvedev’s naming of Magomedsalam Magomedov to be Mukhu Alyev’s successor as president of Daghestan is certain to prove fateful for that troubled North Caucasus republic and could ultimately lead Moscow to restore elections for the heads of federal subjects in order to avoid having to take responsibility for everything. In Daghestan itself, the selection of Magomedov is likely to have two inter-related consequences. On the one hand, it may presage a return to the Lebanon-style allocation of government positions on ethnic lines Magomedov’s father successfully used to keep the republic relatively calm when other republics in the region were descending into violence. And on the other, because supporters of the losing candidates, many of whom have already used violence as an electoral tool, may not soon be prepared to accept Moscow’s ...
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