Kavkaz

The international forecaster editor Bob Chapman writes: This past Saturday in Venezuela, it was announced that a sniper with a long-range rifle and a motorcycle to escape was captured … his target was President Hugo Chavez Frias.

Israel’s army chief sacked a top general on Wednesday for criticizing the Israeli government’s policy and the military’s conduct during the recent offensive in Lebanon, the BBC reported.

The UK underestimates the threat to its future security posed by Russia, shadow defence secretary Liam Fox has warned. Addressing a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference, Dr Fox said Russia was increasing its defence spending this year by 25%, BBC News reported.

A Canadian firm in Halifax is suing the Russian government for US million in a last-ditch legal push to regain its investment in a Moscow hotel that was suddenly occupied by armed Russian militants two years ago, the Canadian Press reported.

A Talib fighter detonated his explosive laden motorcycle by NATO convoy in Mirwais Maina, five kilometers to west of Kandahar city today (Oct. 03). The attack was carried out by a Talib fidayeen fighter, Abdullah. Six NATO invaders were killed in the attack, the AIP reports. 

Mr Roman Kanaev, Chief Technologist at the Volgograd section of the gas pile line ” Asia-Center” which had been blown up Thursday morning, September 29, undirectly confirmed to a local newspaper, “Komsomolskaya Pravda in Volgograd”, that the blast had been caused by a sabotage operation.

BEIRUT (AFP) — Russian troops are to deploy in Lebanon soon for the first time in more than 200 years, with a small contingent being sent to build bridges — not only real ones but also geopolitical ones. As a member of the Middle East diplomatic “Quartet”, Moscow is grouped …

A source in the Special Department (SD) of State Defense Commitee-CRI Majlisul Shura told the Kavkaz Center that the SD knew who had ordered and who had carried out the killing of the Russia’s Central Bank Deputy Chairman Andrei Kozlov.

Many adults in Russia believe their russian government should negotiate with Chechen mujahiddeen, according to a poll by the Yury Levada Analytical Center. 68 per cent of respondents believe their country should attempt to begin peace talks.

According to reports from Chechnya,  Chechen State President Dokka Umarov’ own brother Ahmad “disappeared”  once again after infidels and apostates showed him on their TV, claiming that he had “voluntarily surrendered” to them as a former militant.