July, 2008

• 2 July

  Russia says journalist’s killer is in Western Europe

  MOSCOW (Reuters) – The man suspected of killing Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya in 2006 is hiding in Western Europe, Russia’s chief criminal investigator was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

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• 2 July

  Lebanon says prisoner swap marks Israel’s failure

  BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon said on Tuesday a prisoner swap deal reached between Israel and Hezbollah marked a “big failure” for the Jewish state which had earlier refused to agree to such a plan.

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• 2 July

  NATO and Pakistan troops kill Taliban on Afghan border

  KABUL (Reuters) – NATO troops in Afghanistan and Pakistani soldiers together killed a number of militants along the rugged border, the NATO force said on Tuesday, in a rare show of close cross-border military cooperation.

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• 2 July

  Former Iraqi detainees sue U.S. military contractors

  ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Four Iraqi men are suing U.S. military contractors who they say tortured them while they were detained in Abu Ghraib prison, according to lawsuits being filed at U.S. federal courts on Monday.

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• 2 July

  Iraq sues companies over oil-for-food kickbacks

  NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Iraqi government sued dozens of companies, including oil giant Chevron Corp., for more than $10 billion on Monday, saying they paid kickbacks to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s government under the U.N. oil-for-food program.

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June, 2008

• 30 June

  SCANDAL. Estonians demonstratively leave congress in Khanty-Mansiysk

  The Estonian delegation headed by the country’s President, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, has left a forum for Finno-Ugric nations in protest at comments made by the Chairman of Russian Duma’s (Parliament’s) International Affairs Committee, Konstantin Kosachev, who said that Estonia’s ethnic policies are “unprincipled”.

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• 30 June

  SCANDAL. Presidents of Estonia, Hungary and Finland demonstratively leave Russia

  For censorship considerations, Russian media have concealed from their readers the fact that Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves left not only the conference room in protest of the slander against Estonia voiced at the so-called “Fifth World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples”, but he also left Russia and returned to Tallinn …

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• 30 June

  Two explosions in Gagry

  According to earlier reports, 6 people were injured. All of the victims of the explosions in Gagry are locals, Echo of Moscow (“Ekho Moskvy”) reported.

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• 30 June

  Russian kuffar come up with their own ‘version’ of events in Elistanzhi

  After the Command of Armed Forces of the Caucasus Emirate released the report about the successful operation in the village of Elistanzhi, the sources of the Russian invaders came up with their own “version” of the special night operation by the Mujahideen, as usual.

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• 30 June

  KADYROV vs. YAMADAYEV. Kadyrov shows movie about Yamadayev

  Ringleader of Chechen pro-Russian accomplices (murtadin/apostates) has launched another turn of the informational campaign against his rival puppet, Sulim Yamadayev. It was reported that Kadyrov’s TV showed a film, in which ringleader of the Vostok (“East”) gang is declared a murderer, a kidnapper and a criminal.

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