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ohio2007

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Sat Sep-01-07 09:08 AM
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4. they are basically the same region

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The regional Interior Ministry said Friday's attack may have been aimed to frighten Russians and Ossetians, a mostly Orthodox Christian ethnic group concentrated in the neighboring republic of North Ossetia. Ingush and North Ossetians fought a territorial war in the early 1990s, and relations remain tense.

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"The people who did this are those who want things here to develop like they did in Chechnya," he said, not specifying whether he meant militants or forces linked to the government.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/RUSSIA_BOMB?SITE=INKEN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Not exactly near "northern Siberia"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Ossetia-Alania

May 2007 article;
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/14/europe/EU-GEN-Russia-Dagestan.php

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