July, 2008

• 15 July

  Israel moves Hezbollah prisoners ahead of swap

  HADARIM PRISON, Israel (Reuters) – Israel prepared on Monday for a prisoner swap with Hezbollah by moving four Lebanese guerrillas in its custody to a holding facility ahead of Wednesday’s U.N.-mediated exchange.

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• 15 July

  Kuwait speaker says U.S. provocative toward Iran

  KUWAIT (Reuters) – The United States and other Western countries are dealing in a provocative way with Iran over its nuclear program and should respect its sovereignty, Kuwait’s parliament speaker said.

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• 15 July

  Karzai opposes U.S. use of Afghan soil against Iran

  KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan opposes U.S. use of its territory for launching a possible attack against neighboring Iran, President Hamid Karzai said in an interview broadcast on Monday.

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• 14 July

  Chechen pro-Russian accomplices go AWOL and flee from Abkhazia

  Chechen pro-Russian accomplices (whom we call murtadin/apostates) from the Zapad (“West”) and Vostok (“East”) gangs have left the ranks of the troops of Russian invaders in Abkhazia without any permission. Georgia-based Rustavi-2 TV channel reported that yesterday up to 90 Chechen pro-Russian accomplices left Russian checkpoints 304 and 204 in …

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• 14 July

  Moscow not willing to settle conflicts in Georgia

  Russia is not interested in settlement of conflicts in Georgia and this country’s entrance to NATO, and therefore, provokes Georgian- Abkhazian and Georgian-Ossetia conflicts, experts consider. ” Moscow appears to think that so long as Georgia is in conflict with its breakaway regions and Russia, Georgia will not be allowed …

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• 14 July

  What happened in Muzhichi?

  After a guerrilla attack on the village of Muzhichi, members of the “Memorial” human rights centre conducted a painstaking survey of village residents, gathering comprehensive information about the raid. Tamerlan Akiyev, head of Memorial’s Nazran office, has kindly provided an article written specially for Prague Watchdog about the results of …

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• 14 July

  Rice warns Russia over Georgia row

  Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, has urged Russia to help resolve tension in Georgia’s rebel regions rather than “contributing to it”.   Rice was in Tbilisi, the country’s capital, on Thursday in a show of support for Georgia, an ex-Soviet state which wants to join Nato and is …

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• 14 July

  Russian military gangs ready to invade Georgia. U.S. sends thousand marines in response

  Gangs of the Russian invaders from the so-called North Caucasus Military District are ready “to provide assistance to the Russian troops in case the situation gets more aggravated in the conflict zones in Abkhazia and South Ossetia”, as gang leader of Russian North Caucasus Military District, Sergei Makarov, said.

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• 14 July

  Salafists and Sufis square off over Chechnya

  From July 5 to July 7, an international Islamic conference entitled “The Place and Role of Sufism in the Islamic World,” which gathered together more than 200 clergymen from Russia and other countries, was held in the Chechen town of Gudermes. According to official sources, the event was organized by …

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• 14 July

  Mujahideen conduct military operations and read lecture to villagers

  Sources from the Province of Ingushetia, The Caucasus Emirate, reported that a unit of the Caucasus Armed Forces (Mujahideen) consisting of over 100 fighters entered the village of Muzhichi early morning of Rajab 6, 1429 (July 9, 2008). At the same time the locals said that the number of Mujahideen …

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