Monday, July 25, 2005

Russia sees global jihad on southern flank / The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2005

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0725/p07s01-woeu.html?s=hns
Fred Weir
"Police announced the apparent terror bombing as an almost routine event, the latest of nearly 80 deadly attacks by Islamic extremists that have rocked the multiethnic mountain republic of Dagestan so far this year. The Kremlin insists the wave of attacks that threaten to unhinge Russia's mainly-Muslim Caucasus region is being orchestrated by the same global jihad groups that have struck in London and Sharm-el-Sheikh"