A court in Tajikistan has handed down a 23-year prison sentence to a former member of the al Qaeda terrorist network.
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March 7, 2007An Algeria-based Islamic extremist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for a weekend attack that killed a Russian engineer and three others.
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March 6, 2007Four workers from Russia and Ukraine and three Algerians were killed in a bomb attack on a bus near the town of Ain Defla, south of the capital Algiers, the AFP news agency reported on Sunday quoting local sources.
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March 5, 2007One Russian citizen was killed and another injured in a bomb explosion in Algeria, Russia’s foreign ministry said Sunday.
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March 4, 2007According to Moscow police security officials prevented a bomb attack in the Russian capital the day before the country celebrated a national holiday last week, the Bloomberg news agency reports.
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February 27, 2007Around 450 rebels are fighting Russian troops in Chechnya, a higher estimate than previously given, the Reuters news agency reported on Friday quoting a newspaper interview with Russia’s top military officer in the north Caucasus, Lieutenant-General Arkady Yedelev.
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February 2, 2007Russian anti-terrorism chiefs have stood down security forces from a state of high alert imposed earlier this week over reports of an imminent attack, an official said on Friday.
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January 19, 2007The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is marking the 10th anniversary of the murder of six of its international workers by unidentified gunmen in the village of Novye Atagi in Chechnya, RFE/RL reported Monday.
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December 18, 2006A Russian computer security expert predicts that terrorists could seek to target his country’s critical infrastructure through electronic warfare, the PC World web-site reported on Monday.
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An exiled Kremlin opponent accused the West on Wednesday of standing by passively as Russia passed laws allowing its agents to hunt down opponents overseas, saying these had led directly to the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, Reuters reports.
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