Police say kill eight militants in southern Russia http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL12667568
Mon Nov 12, 2007
MAKHACHKALA, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Russian police killed eight suspected militants in a special operation in the southern region of Dagestan, the local police chief said on Monday.
The operation was the bloodiest for several months in Dagestan, where Moscow's forces are fighting a low-level insurgency linked to Islamist radicals. http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL12667568