Boy killed, 5 schoolchildren injured by Chechen roadside bomb blast
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posted by zaina19 on April, 2006 as War in Chechnya
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/24/2006 12:47 AM Boy killed, 5 schoolchildren injured by Chechen roadside bomb blast The Associated Press Sun Apr 23 19:58:00 PDT 2006 ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — A bomb exploded on a roadside in Chechnya where schoolchildren were cleaning up trash, killing a boy and wounding five other children, an emergency official said Saturday. The blast occurred Friday while students from a rural school in eastern Chechnya, near the city of Gudermes, were clearing trash in a spring "subbotnik" — an organized work outing that is a tradition dating from the Soviet era — a duty officer at the regional branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry in Chechnya said. The explosive device was hidden in a pile of trash some 100 feet from the school, said the official, who was not authorized to give his name to the media. He did not know the ages or the conditions of the injured children, ... >> full
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HOW STRONG (AND UNITED) IS THE CHECHEN RESISTANCE?
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posted by zaina19 on as War in Chechnya
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/24/2006 2:31 AM RFE/RL Reports 21 April 2006, Volume 9, Number 14 HOW STRONG (AND UNITED) IS THE CHECHEN RESISTANCE? In May 2005, Chechen field commander Doku Umarov, who is the most senior Chechen field commander after Shamil Basayev, told RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service that following the death of President Aslan Maskhadov in March, the resistance planned to expand military operations beyond the borders of Chechnya -- a move that Maskhadov had always vetoed (see "RFE/RL Newsline," May 10, 2005). And in preparation for that expansion of military operations, Chechen State Defense Committee head Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev issued a series of decrees designating the North Caucasus regions of Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachayevo-Cherkessia, Adygeya, Stavropol, and Krasnodar sectors of the so-called Caucasus Front (see "RFE/RL Newsline," May 17, 2005). Sadulayev also named commanders of the Ingush, North Ossetian, and Kabardino-Balkar sectors of that front. Since then, resistance forces have ... >> full
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