March, 2008

• 20 March

  Kataib al-Hawl: ”We have eliminated a sadist”

  Kavkaz Center’s editorial staff received an e-mail containing a statement signed by Huzeifa, a deputy of the Amir of the Jamaat Kataib al-Hawl (Wilayah Iriston, the Emirate of Caucasus).

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• 20 March

  5 Mujahideen martyred in Temir-Khan-Shura District of Dagestan

  Kavkaz Center’s sources in Wilayah of Dagestan of the Caucasus Emirate reported that command of Temir-Khan-Shura sector of Degestani Front of Armed Forces of CE (Seyfullah unit) confirmed martyrdom of an operative unit of Mujahideen during a fierce gun battle that took place on  Friday 6 Rabi‘ al-Awwal 1429 (14.03.2008) …

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• 20 March

  3 Mujahideen martyred in Vedeno district

  According to Kavkaz Center’s three Mujahideen were martyred (inshaAllah) in a hostile incident on 8 Rabi‘ al-Awwal 1429 (16.03.2008) in Vedeno district of Wilayah Nokhchicho of the Caucasus Emirate.

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• 20 March

  Fierce gun battle takes place in Urus-Martan district

  Kavkaz Center’s source from Wilayah of Nokhchicho (Ichkeria) of the Caucasus Emirate reported about an ambush of a group of murtadin and kuffar made by a mobile team of near the village of Olhazar-Kotar (Alhazurovo) on 13 Rabi’ Al-Awwal 1429 (20 March 2008).

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• 20 March

  Cheney in Afghanistan to back government

  KABUL, Afghanistan – Vice President Dick Cheney met with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday to discuss ways the country’s fragile government as it faces rising threats from al-Qaida and Taliban militants.

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• 19 March

  Kuwait dissolves parliament, sets May election

  KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait’s ruler dissolved parliament and set an election for May 17 on Wednesday after a political crisis that delayed economic reforms forced the oil exporting state’s government to resign.

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• 19 March

  Neighbors’ Kosovo recognition deals blow to Serbia

  BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia’s neighbors in Croatia, Hungary and Bulgaria dealt a blow to the Serb campaign to overturn Kosovo’s month-old independence on Wednesday by announcing they would recognize the new republic.

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• 19 March

  U.N. police return to tense Kosovo Serb stronghold

  MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) – U.N. police in Kosovo returned to the Serb stronghold of north Mitrovica on Wednesday with heavy NATO support, having pulled out two days ago after deadly riots by Serbs opposed to secession.

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• 19 March

  Trial of Iraq fighter suspects opens in Paris

  PARIS (Reuters) – Six French men and one Algerian went on trial in Paris on Wednesday accused of involvement in a network smuggling Islamist fighters to Iraq.

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• 19 March

  Saudi clerics back death fatwa for liberal writers

  RIYADH (Reuters) – A group of Saudi clerics has come out in support of a colleague who issued a fatwa saying two writers deserve to die if they did not retract views that he said made them apostates.

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