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The leadership of the so-called “Caucasus Mujahideens” has claimed responsibility for the explosion that caused the derailment of the “Nevsky Express” train on November 27.
The statement was published on one of the militants’ websites, Lenta.ru reports.
The online news edition says the terror act was one of a series targeting several strategic objects in Russia. The militants are said to have acted on the order of their leader Doku Umarov.
As the source of KC from Dagestan reported, a fierce fire fighting between the Kadyrov’s apostates supported by Russian infidels on the one side and the Mujahideen on the other took place near the village of Aktash-aul (Russian name Lenin-Aul) during the whole day of Sunday November 29 2009.
Military officials in the Central African Republic say they have retaken a key northern town that was captured by rebels last week. The country’s president is pushing a peace deal ahead of 2010 elections.
Military officials in Bangui say government troops have recaptured the town of Ndele, about 675 kilometers north of the capital. It was at the center of fighting earlier this year that drove more than 8,000 civilians across the border into Chad.
Rebels from the Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace took control of Ndele last Thursday in a three-pronged attack that the government says killed at least 15 people including two soldiers. Government forces from the garrison there regrouped and regained command of the town over the weekend, driving out rebels led by former prime minister Charles Massi.
Chávez: “Israel threatened us and we will act accordingly”
“We will be together until the end,” Ahmadinejad said to the Venezuelan President.
President Hugo Chávez and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reaffirmed their brotherhood against the “imperialist enemy”.
Politics:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez, exchanged praise and reaffirmed their brotherhood “against imperialist threats.”
Chávez welcomed the Iranian leader, calling him an “anti-imperialist gladiator,” and a “brother and friend” in the struggle of “two free countries” (against imperialism). Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad described Chávez as a “brave brother,” and a man “who resists like a mountain.”
Saudi Arabia says it has captured a strategic mountain area near its border with Yemen from Yemeni Shia rebels.
Saudi forces detained about 150 Ethiopians and Somalis as prisoners of war as they cleared the area, Saudi Arabia’s deputy defence minister said.
The Houthi rebels denied that the area, which is known as Jabal al-Dood or Jabal Mudood, had been taken.
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), an Ethiopian rebel group that is operating in eastern Ethiopia, is reporting more Woyanne regime casualties in a renewed offensive that took place since November 10. The following is a military communique:
Military operations related to the 10 November 2009 offensive have concluded in Ogaden. In total, 6 military vehicles belonging to the regime have been destroyed thus far by ONLF forces. The death toll from all fronts now stands at 985 of Woyanne regime troops killed, including 12 officers, with a large number wounded.
Georgia urged fellow former Soviet republic Belarus today not to follow Russia in recognizing the breakaway Regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as Independent States.
Belarus dispatched parliamentarians to Georgia and its rebel territories this week to consider the issue, with Minsk torn between loyalty to traditional ally Russia and a bid to improve relations with the European Union, which supports Georgia.
Russia recognized the breakaway Regions in August 2008 after crushing an assault by U.S.-ally Georgia on South Ossetia in a five-day war. Only Nicaragua and Venezuela have followed suit.