Jamestown Foundation: The Roots And Transformation Of The Dagestan Insurgency
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posted by eagle on September, 2010 as DAGESTAN
The Roots and Transformation of the Dagestan InsurgencyPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor September 29, 2010 04:36 PM
 Dagestani militant Magomed Vagabov. (ITAR TASS)
In early April, two women from Dagestan were named by the federal authorities as key suspects in the March 29 suicide attacks which targeted the Lubyanka and Park Kultury metro stations near to the interior ministry and the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Moscow (RIA Novosti, April 1; ITAR-TASS, April 6). On July 14, representatives of the Caucasus Emirate announced that Magomed Vagabov had been appointed as the Emir of the Dagestani Front (Kavkaz Tsenter, July 15). Vagabov, the bombers who struck in Moscow, as well as another terrorist who launched a suicide operation in Makhackala on January 6, all represent a younger generation of volunteers who have pledged allegiance to the Caucasus Emirate, led by Doku Umarov. Indeed, Vagabov (known as Emir Seyfullah of Gubden) and ...
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RFE/RL: President Of Karachayevo-Cherkessia Dismisses Government
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posted by eagle on as DAGESTAN
At Least 42 Injured In Suicide Bombing In Russia's North Caucasus Special forces during a counterterrorism operation in Makhachkala earlier this month. The region is plagued by almost daily violence. September 25, 2010 Russian media reports say a suicide bomber has blown himself up in the republic of Daghestan, injuring at least 42 people, including several police officers.
The bomber broke through a police cordon in the capital, Makhachkala, where security officers were battling militia fighters.
At least two Islamist rebels were killed in that incident.
On September 24, at least five suspected Islamist terrorists, including a woman, were killed in Daghestan.
Daghestan has been the scene of bloody clashes between forces loyal to Moscow, criminal gangs, and Islamists striving for independence from Russia.
The region is plagued by almost daily violence.
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Global Times: Two Policemen Killed In Russia's Dagestan
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Two policemen killed in Russia's Dagestan- Source: Xinhua
- [08:52 September 25 2010]
Two police officers from Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan died during Friday's anti- terror operation, said the National Anti-terrorist Committee. Two militants were killed in the operation, a third has been arrested, said the committee. The operation was carried out in the regional capital of Makhachkala on Friday evening, as police officers surrounded a private residence with several insurgents inside. The militants started the shootout by firing at policemen and throwing grenades, said the committee. Earlier Friday, five militants were killed in another operation conducted in the Kirovaul village of the Kizilyurtovsky region in the republic. Two police officers were slightly injured. In another separate movement in Makhachkala, a police patrol vehicle suffered from a bomb attack on the road, causing no casualties. Violence is common in Russia's North Caucasus republics, especially Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia, with militants frequently targeting police and officials. Moscow has said it ... >> full
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PT: Suicide Bomber Strikes In Russia's Caucasus
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posted by eagle on as DAGESTAN
Suicide bomber strikes in Russia's Caucasus
'Pakistan Times' Wire Service
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Shawwal 19
MOSCOW: A suicide bomber blew himself up in Russia's North Caucasus province of Dagestan, wounding at least 26 people, Russian news agencies reported on Saturday. The attacker set off explosives after approaching police guarding a cordoned-off site where security forces had battled with suspected militants hours earlier, a news agency reported, citing a local law enforcement official. The blast late on Friday wounded 13 police officers and 13 civilians, the report said. Other reports said as many as 30people were hurt. Unidentified assailants gunned down a school principal in her home in Dagestan earlier on Friday, while separate shoot-outs killed 12 people across the North Caucasus. An insurgency is raging in the mainly Muslim region, where rebels angry about poverty and fuelled by the ideology of global jihad want to carve out an independent state governed by sharia law. The suicide bomber ...
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Jamestown Foundation: Son Of Former President Of Dagestan Named To Head The Republic
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Son of Former President of Dagestan Named to Head the RepublicPublication: North Caucasus Analysis September 21, 2010 05:09 PM
Dagestan’s new president-elect, Magomedsalam Magomedov, is the son of the republic’s former leader, Magomedali Magomedov. The younger Magomedov became the head of Dagestan’s parliament after Mukhu Aliev was elected the republic’s president in 2006 (www.runewsweek.ru, February 10). It is difficult to determine if this was coincidental, but the candidacy of Aliev, proposed by the then President Vladimir Putin five years ago, was recently rejected by President Dmitry Medvedev. Putin was not satisfied with the performance of the father of the current president of Dagestan. For this reason he pensioned him off, replacing Magamedov with his protégé Mukhu Aliev. Steadily, Putin’s former aides are being replaced by new people who cannot be called members of his team. Only time will tell whether this is a coincidence, or if Medvedev is really creating his own ...
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