The fierce battles between the Taliban forces and the detachments of the Northern Alliance unfolded in the regions of Afghanistan, border with Tajikistan. According to reports received today, the fighting unfolds south of Balkha - the administrative center of the province of the same name, as well as in the area of ​​the Dara -Yi Suf gorge in Samangan. Today, the Severov detachments managed to knock the Taliban from the gorge.

A few days after the tragedy in America, terrorists of the Islamist organization operating in Germany planned to commit similar terrorist attacks in Ankara, ITAR-TASS reports. They were going to send a plane with Kamikaze pilots to the Mausoleum of the founder of the Turkish Republic of Kemal Ataturk. However, the authorities of Turkey became aware of the planned action. On September 13, the Consulate General of Turkey in Cologne was warned.

Employees of the Department for Economic Crimes in the Irkutsk region stopped the activities of criminals who were making and distributing counterfeit rubles, Kommersant reports. Counterfeit money appeared in the region in August of this year. Several samples of counterfeits were sent to the Main Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes of the Criminal Police Service (GUBEP SKM) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

While due to terrorist attacks in the United States, the leading Western airlines encountered a crisis, the demand for transatlantic flights provided by the Israeli airline El al. This company has the richest flight experience in conditions of "increased terrorist danger." According to Izvestia.Ru , foreign competitors are already stated about the intention to adopt him. “I am not surprised by the increased demand for our services on transatlantic lines.

By 2050 The number of Islamic migrants to Europe can increase to 40 million. Such data, according to CNA, was cited by the famous Isismist scientist, professor of the Department of International Relations of the University of Gettingen Bassam Tibi in his speech at the Uzbekistan Academy of State and Public Building in Tashkent. The scientist reinforced his forecast by the following numbers: in 1950. The number of Islamic migrants in Europe was about 1 million people.

Today, the Pakistani International Eirines Pakistani has received a request for tickets for reservation on the Karachi-Islamabad flight, in which the name of Usama Ben Laden appeared, ITAR-TASS reports. The application was submitted by one of the Pakistani travel agencies.

About 40 thousand people tried to answer the question of Playboy.com: "Who is the sexiest tennis player of the planet?" As expected, the vast majority of the respondents cast their votes for Russians Anna Kurtnikov, who, due to her leg injury, has recently appeared quite rarely on the court. More than 40 percent of readers voted for it. In second place, losing only 8 percent to the Russian woman, was the American beauty Barbara Shhett.

"As a result of the insufficiently thought -out and combined -ups of the US tough measures taken in the near future, a new surge of even more monstrous terrorist attacks will occur." This opinion was expressed in an interview with Perm News Afghan General, who in the past was a member of the President of Najibullah, Izvestia reports. The general did not exclude that terrorists use chemical, bacteriological or even nuclear weapons.

The representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the State Duma, Alexander Kotenkov, advocates the introduction of a state of emergency in Chechnya. “If events take place such as in Chechnya, then it is necessary to introduce a state of emergency,” he said in an interview with Interfax.

24 Insurance companies included in the Lloyds group said that in connection with the announcement of September 27 to the north of the 24 parallel "Military Risk Insurance Zone", the level of bets will rise to 0.05%, this is the highest level of the Gulf of War in 1991 Until now, the military risk rate was 0.0275% of the cost of insured goods, vehicles and other things, RIA Novosti reports. The military risk zone included the countries of the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea basin.

In the investigative insulator of Kursk, a new corps is opened today, in which it is planned to equip “commercial cameras” with a refrigerator, a TV and other attributes of the equipped life, RIA Novosti reports. Naturally, for an increased level of comfort, the under investigation will have to be paid.

The head of the public stove for foreign and defense policies (swap) Sergei Karaganov considers an impossible idea to overthrow the Taliban regime and establish a transition government under the auspices of the UN in Afghanistan. Karaganov expressed his opinion on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station. Today, the British newspaper The Guardian suggested that the US military operation in Afghanistan aims to overthrow the Taliban regime and establish the UN power in Afghanistan.

We both worked and work, "despite the fact that police officers of the Central Administrative District came to the premises of Mosenergo JSC, Alexander Remezov, General Director of Mosenergo JSC, suspended from office by decision of the meeting of shareholders. He said that he did not know on whose initiative the forces of public order arrived in the building, since the prefect of the district informed him that the administration did not know anything about such an initiative.

The leadership of the Afghan movement "Taliban" cannot force Osam Ben Laden to leave Afghanistan, as required by the United States. About this, according to ITAR-TASS, said today the ambassador of Taliban to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaif. “Ben Laden can voluntarily leave Afghanistan. But we cannot force him to do it,” he said. The day before, the highest religious figures of Afghanistan, gathered in Kabul, decided that the Taliban should ask Ben Laden out of their own free will to leave the country.

Church attendance in the UK has increased markedly since the terrorist attacks on the US, Blagovest-info reports. Representatives of the country's main Christian denominations said Tuesday that thousands of people were flocking to churches for prayer and consolation. There has not been such a gathering of worshipers in British churches since the death of Princess Diana in 1997.