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"Suicide bomber kills 4 in Chechnya" by Associated Press | August 26, 2009
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia - A suicide bombing in Chechnya killed four police officers yesterday, authorities in the restive Russian region said.
Magomed Diniyev, a spokesman for the Chechen Interior Ministry, said the blast took place about midday in a gas station-car-wash complex in the town of Mesker-Yurt, about 12 miles southeast of the capital, Grozny. Another police officer and two civilians were also wounded in the blast, the ministry said.
The attack is the latest in a rising wave of violence against police and soldiers in Russia’s North Caucasus. At least 25 people died in the Aug. 17 suicide truck bombing of a police station in neighboring Ingushetia.
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Separatist rebels and Russian troops have fought two full-scale wars in Chechnya over the past 15 years, and small clashes persist. Earlier yesterday, the Chechen Interior Ministry said a police officer was killed and another wounded in an overnight clash with militants, and suicide bombers on bicycles killed four police officers in Chechnya on Friday.
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I've already said it and I'll say it again: this is about destabilizing the corridor of Russian assistance to Iran after Israel (or the U.S.) attack.
Look at a map, readers.
