Exactly one year ago, April 16, 2009, the counterterrorist operation (KTO) in Chechnya was concluded. President Ramzan Kadyrov declared that day a national holiday for all Chechens – the day the war ended. Yet a year later, peace has not come to Chechnya.

Between April 2009 and March 2010, 85 law enforcement officers were killed in the republic and 168 wounded. Acts of terrorism continue.

The first post-KTO suicide bombings occurred less than a month after the declaration, in May 2009. Of the 57 terrorist acts registered in Chechnya between April 2009 and March 2010, nine were suicide attacks and a tenth suicide attack was averted.

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Four Sahara desert countries are set to open a joint command headquarters in the south of Algeria to counter a growing al-Qaeda threat, the Algerian defence ministry says.

The command headquarters for Algeria, Mali, Mauritania and Niger will be based in Tamanrasset, about 2,000km south of Algiers, the Algerian capital, it said.

The announcement on Wednesday followed a meeting last month of senior officials from regional governments that the US hailed as a step towards confronting al-Qaeda.

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Seven rockets have been fired against a military base that hosts also italian soldiers in Bala Murghab, in west of Afghanistan: nobody was wounded.

Alpini have answered at fire with six mortars rounds and have «neutralized the threat».

The news has been confimed by general Claudio Berto, commander of Brigata Taurinense of italian contingent in Afghanistan.

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Two leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq have been killed. Prime Iraq Minister referred it, Nuri al Maliki. The operation of secret services would hit leader Abu Ayyub Al-Masr. It’s not the first time that terrorist leader, succeed to al-Zarqawi, reported died. In may of three years ago, Iraq Government announced that Masri was killed by a sunni clan.

During press conference, in Baghdad, al-Maliki has announced the dead of others terrorists. Between them, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the emire of “Iraqi Islamic State”. To validate killing, he would have showed to journalists the pictures of two bodies without life of presumed leaders.

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Suspected members of Somalia’s Al-Shabaab militias have for the second time this month raided Kenya’s border town of Liboi.

The heavily armed gunmen barricaded and attacked several positions within the remote settlement, some 18km from Somalia’s porous-ragged border, witnesses told Saturday Nation.

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Georgian military personnel trespassed the state borderline of South Ossetia, reports the Defense Ministry press-service.
“At around 17:00, two armored vehicles COBRA and one military pick-up enter the territory of South Ossetia as far as 150 meters near the village of Okona bordering with Georgian village of Knolevi. After warning shooting, the Georgian armed forces representatives returned back to Georgia”, says the report.

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These are 18 States: Lincoln, Shasta, South California, Navajo, Absaroka, West Kansas, Texlahoma, Jacinto, Superior, Chicago, Forgottonia, Nickajack, Acadia, Boston, Long Island, South Jersey, Chesapeake and South Florida.

Long Island’s latest quest to split from New York and become its own state had a promising start last year. Legislators in Suffolk county, upset over a new payroll tax to fund New York City’s subways, voted 12-6 in favor of a secession plan. It seemed viable: In terms of square miles, Long Island is bigger than Rhode Island; its gross state product would be larger than that of 20 states. Some optimists even proposed a state bird: the duck.

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