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Three explosions have struck central Baghdad within minutes of one another, killing at least 30 and wounding up to 170.
Saad Kamel, a Baghdad correspondent for RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq, reported that the largest explosion occurred near the Iranian Embassy and the Real Estate Bank building, both near Baghdad’s heavily guarded Green Zone.
“The bank building is severely damaged. Tens of employees [and others] were killed or injured, and dozens of cars were damaged or burned there,” Kamel said.
Independence of Abkhazia “can be recognized by Bolivia and Ecuador in near future “, the republic’s Foreign Minister Maxim Gvindzhia said Wednesday in an interview with Russian journalist. He heads the Abkhaz delegation which has been to Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador.
“We expect the next recognition of independence of Abkhazia from Bolivia and Ecuador because the attitude to our country is positive there”, the head of the Foreign Ministry said. “Sometimes Abkhazia is compared to the problems of separatists in Bolivia, but this country’s leadership has thoroughly studied this issue and understands that such a comparison is unacceptable in case with Abkhazia”, he specified.
Three children were injured caused by israeli air strike in Gaza: F16 fighters and helicopters with David’s stars have made seven raids on Strip and children have wounded by shards of glass.
Raids were pre-annunced Thursday by israeli army that had launched leaflets on Strip’s streets warning population about a retaliation for killing two soldiers last Friday in an armed fight with palestinians (leaflets where there was a child with a flower and an arab writing, «wait the answer tomorrow»); and came after repeated rocket launches from Gaza into southern Israel (more than 40 from the start of the year, and twenty only in March).
The Kavkaz Center editorial staff has received a video statement made by the Caucasus Emirate’s Emir Dokka Abu Usman, who stressed that the attack in the Moscow subway on March 29, 2010 had been organized under his personal order.
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In his video statement, reordered on March 29, 2010, Dokka Abu Usman said that the attack had been a retaliation and a retribution for the massacre by Russian invaders of the poorest residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia, who were picking wild garlic in the Arshty village on February 11, 2010, to feed their families.
Twice attacks in Dagestan, one of Caucasus republics in North. Two explosions in Kkzlyar town have left on the ground nine dead and some wounded. Between victims also police chief, colonel Vitali Vedernikov. The attack follows of only two days the bloody attack in Moscow underground in which 39 people died.
The explosions are happened at almost three hundred meters from Police local building and Fsb, secret russian services. The firs explosion is happened during the passage of a police car causing the dead of two police men. Almost fifteen minutes later, when on point were arrived investigators and a crowd of curios was there, a kamikaze dressed by policeman exploded himself in the middle of people provoking other seven dead, including five members of police, a local investigator and a man.
As reported by russian invaders media outlets on Sunday, the Mujahideen of Idel Ural captured a strategic district 29 in the Bashkerian town of Oktyabrskiy Friday morning.
On Saturday, the Russians moved tanks, 50 APCs and military helicopters against the Mujahideen.
The battles in the town lasted 2 days and were still going at least on Sunday morning, according to some reports.
According to local residents of the Muslim town, the number of the Mujahideen which took part in the raid was about 16 fighters. The Russians said that they moved more than 500 soldiers of the KGB troops alone to fight the Mujahideen. A large number of Russian troops from police paramilitary units also took part in 2-day battles.
At least 34 people are dead with 37 injured after two blasts ripped through two packed metro stations during Moscow’s rush hour. The explosions happened within forty minutes of each other.
The first tore through the second carriage of a train as it stood at the Lubyanka station. An hour later at the Park Kultury station a second blast wrecked the second carriage of a train. The Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov blamed the attacks on suicide bombers.