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| Foreign and domestic hard boyz involved in Ingush violence |
| 2006-05-20 |
| Criminal forces in Russia and abroad were behind Wednesday's attack that killed a senior local official and six others in the North Caucasus area of Ingushetia, a regional leader said on Thursday. "Those forces can't reconcile themselves with the fact that life is getting better here and the social and economic situation is stabilizing," Ingushetia's President Murat Zyazikov said, quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency. "But no one will be able to impose their ideology on us," Zyazikov added. Law enforcement agencies have begun an investigation into the attack. Dzhabrail Kostoyev, deputy head of the Ingushetia interior ministry, was killed along with his driver and bodyguard when the assailant drove his car into a police convoy and detonated a bomb. The bombing left four other civilians dead, all of them in a car that crashed into Kostoyev's vehicle after the explosion. Last year, attempts were made on the life of Kostoyev, who was head of the Nazran police department at the time. The department building was fired upon by a mortar in February. One shell hit Kostoyev's office room, which was unoccupied at thetime. In August, Kostoyev was seriously injured by a roadside explosive device while traveling in his car. Law enforcement officials said the assassination might have been organized by Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 hey let's get a clue, too someone around him.Just too many ppl know where his office was in the building and his schedule. |
| Posted by: Greamp Elmavinter1163 2006-05-20 22:11 |