--- On Thu, 11/13/08, uvj at vsnl.com <uvj at vsnl.com> wrote:
> From: uvj at vsnl.com <uvj at vsnl.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Leader insists his Caucasus region not at war
> To: "lbo" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 6:47 AM
> FEATURE-Leader insists his Caucasus region not at war
> http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLR229542
>
> Mon Oct 27, 2008
>
> By Conor Sweeney
>
> MAGAS, Russia, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Armoured vehicles patrol
> the streets and
> his bodyguards do not let him out of sight, but the leader
> of Russia's most
> volatile region calls predictions of civil war "the
> ravings of a madman".
>
> Gunbattles, ambushes and explosions erupt regularly in
> Ingushetia, a mainly
> Muslim region in Russia's turbulent North Caucasus
> where Moscow and its
> local allies are fighting insurgents, many of them inspired
> by radical
> Islam.
> http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLR229542
>
>
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