Britain News: Three Militants Killed In Dagestan
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posted by eagle on June, 2011 as DAGESTAN
Three militants killed in DagestanBritain News.Net
Saturday 11th June, 2011 (IANS)
Three militants were killed in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan in a shootout after they refused to stop at a police checkpost, police said.
'Police officers tried to stop a car near the Manas village but people inside the car opened fire. All the three people inside were killed in return fire,' a police spokesman said.
A Federal Security Service (FSB) spokesman said one of those killed was identified as Kamil Magomedov, a subversive group leader reportedly involved in an attempt to organise a terrorist attack in Moscow Dec 31, 2010.
He said a second militant was identified as Magomedsultan Aigunov, on a federal wanted list, and the third man's identity was not established yet. Two handguns and a grenade were seized from the site.
An investigation is underway.
More that a decade after the end of a federal war against separatists in Russia's ...
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Jamestown Foundation: In A New Trend For The North Caucasus, Dagestani Muslims Organize Civil Protests
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In a New Trend for the North Caucasus, Dagestani Muslims Organize Civil ProtestsPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor June 6, 2011 02:09 PM
 Dagestanis assert Russian authorities infringe on the rights of Muslims in Dagestan and the North Caucasus (Source: RIA Novosti)
On June 1-2, Russia’s Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights held a conference in Makhachkala, Dagestan. The heated discussions at the conference indicated the enormous explosiveness of the situation in the republic, which is rooted in complex political, social and religious discrepancies. Soon after the symposium on human rights started, 3,000 - 5,000 Muslim protesters gathered outside the Dagestani national library building in central Makhachkala, where the event was taking place, to complain about the government’s disregard for their civil rights. A delegation of protesters was eventually allowed to participate in the conference, voicing their concern over unlawful actions of the police in regard to Muslim communities ... >> full
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APA: Theology Professor Shot In Russia’s Dagestan
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posted by eagle on as DAGESTAN
Theology professor shot in Russia’s Dagestan
[ 08 Jun 2011 02:12 ] 
Baku-APA. The rector of a theology institute in Russia’s mainly-Muslim Dagestan republic was shot by unknown assailants near his home on Tuesday, local police said, APA reports quoting RIA Novosti.
Rector Maksud Ibnugadzharovich Sadikov was one of the founders of the first academic institutions in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region to offer both secular and religious teachings.
"According to preliminary information, Sadikov and the person accompanying him were shot by and unknown assailant by the entrance of his house, when they were getting out of a car," the source said.
Local police later confirmed that the person accompanying Sadikov was his nephew.
Sadikov had been rector of the Institute of Theology and International Relations in Dagestani capital Makhachkala since 2003 and tried to promote education as the greatest weapon in the fight against religious extremism.
He also headed a project to translate the Koran into Russian and ... >> full
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Jamestown Foundation: Emir Of Dagestan’s Sharia Jamaat Reportedly Killed In Russian Special Operation
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posted by eagle on April, 2011 as DAGESTAN
Emir of Dagestan’s Sharia Jamaat Reportedly Killed in Russian Special OperationPublication: North Caucasus Analysis
April 21, 2011 03:08 PM
Russia’s intelligence services reported on the night of April 18 that they had identified the body of Israpil Validzhanov, who was better known as Emir Hassan, the head of Dagestan’s Sharia Jamaat armed resistance movement, among four militants killed near the village of Tashkapur in the republic’s Levashinsky district. The area is near Dagestan’s Gunibsky district, where the local jamaat is led by Emir Rappani (www.rosbalt.ru/kavkaz/2011/04/18/840300.html). Emir Hassan became the militant leader in September 2010 following the killing of his predecessor, Magomedali Vagabov, in August of that year (www.rosbalt.ru/kavkaz/2011/04/18/840300.html).
Emir Hassan is already the sixth head of the Dagestan jamaat liquidated by the Russians since 2007. The average lifespan of a leader of the Sharia Jamaat is no more than a few months. It shows both the active character of the rebel leaders ... >> full
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Jamestown Foundation: Eight Policemen Killed In Rebel Attacks In Dagestan
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Eight Policemen Killed in Rebel Attacks in DagestanPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor V April 15, 2011 01:45 PM
Insurgency-related violence was reported across the North Caucasus this past week. On April 14, three suspected militants were detained in Kabardino-Balkaria after police stopped a car in which four people were traveling along the Kavkaz federal highway between the villages of Chegem and Shalushka. The three detained men, inhabitants of Kabardino-Balkaria’s Baksan district, were on the federal wanted list for alleged involvement in attacks on law-enforcement personnel as well as terrorist activities. Police said that an improvised explosive made from sticks of dynamite was found in the car along with ammunition. Also on April 14, a suspected militant was killed in the city of Baksan after he allegedly opened fire on police. The incident took place in a dacha area on the outskirts of the city and police said the slain man, a ... >> full
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