Crossfire War: Caucasus; Chechnya - More than 40 Firefights from August 23-25

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Night Watch: VEDENO - Speaking over the phone a spokeman of the Military Council of State Defense Council Majlis al-Shura reported that mobile squads of Mujahideen had enaged Russian units more than 40 times from August 23-25.

The news will admit that a lot of the violence in the Caucasus, including Dagestan along the Caspian is not being reported but word occasionally does get out and it reveals an ongoing war that shows no sign of ending.

Most of the fighting seems concentrated in Vedeno and Nojay-Yurt districts and in what the Mujahideen call the enemy capital Jokhar (Grozny), Shelkovsk and Kurchaloy districts of Chechnya. Other than Russian soldiers the Mujahideen are also attacking those they call "puppet imams", Islamic priests who work with Moscow and others they call collaborators. The militants also target road blocks and refer to Russian soldiers as invaders and aggressors.

Russia has responded to the combat and sabotage with artillery bombardments and air strikes.

Other than Agence-France Press, Iranian radio is also monitoring the war. Both sides know that the war is over control of the Caspian Sea oil region and will intensify with each passing month.

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