Yahoo! News - Russia says kills al Qaeda militant in North Caucasus
Yahoo! News reports: "A decade after federal forces drove a separatist government from power in Chechnya in a war that started in 1999, Moscow is struggling to contain a growing Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus. Russian officials say the insurgency depends on ideological and financial patronage from the Middle East and militant Islamist groups like al Qaeda, although analysts dispute the extent of those links."