GROZNY, Russia – Insurgents stormed the parliament complex in Russia's volatile Chechnya region on Tuesday, killing at least two police officers and one parliamentary official, and injuring 17 others, authorities said. At least three insurgents were also killed, officials said, ending one of the most brazen attacks on the province's capital in months.Sending in a guy named Rashid will make things all better.
One insurgent set off a bomb at the gates of the parliament complex in Grozny, killing himself and wounding others, Chechen police spokesman Ramzan Bekkhoyev told The Associated Press.
At least two other gunmen ran into the building shouting "Allahu Akbar!" — "God is great!" in Arabic — as they opened fire on the people inside, Bekkhoyev said.
Restive Chechnya in the Russian North Caucasus has been battling an Islamist insurgency for years despite the iron rule of its Moscow-backed president, Ramzan Kadyrov. Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev is in Grozny and holding talks with Kadyrov about the violence.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
"Gunmen" storm Chechen government buildings
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This is why our abandoning Afghanistan will do much more damage to China and Russia than to us.
This is their back yard, and we're doing their Sisyphean dirty work.
God bless our troops, they really are doing a heroic job, but modern-day rules prevent us from conducting this war the way it needs to be done.
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