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August 31, 2012

Reuters: Insight: Brutality, anger fuel jihad in Russia's Caucasus

by Alissa de Carbonnel
Reuters

(Reuters) - Little girls in hijabs peek out of tin-roof houses and boys play at "cops and insurgents" in the narrow dirt streets.

At one end of the village of Gimry men are building a new, red-brick madrassa, one of many religious schools springing up across Dagestan, a region in the high Caucasus mountains on Russia's southern fringe, in the throes of an Islamic revival.

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