Doku Umarov, whose Caucasus Emirate group claimed atrocities including a deadly Moscow airport bombing in 2011 and a metro attack in 2010, said from now only security objects and officials would be targeted.
The report stands in contrast to an upbeat assessment of 2011 as “remarkably successful” by NATO-led forces, who are preparing to withdraw combat troops in 2014 and hand security over to the Afghan government.
Five people were reported to have been killed in cairo and Suez as police used live rounds to hold back crowds trying to break into a police station and fought in front of the state security headquarters, Al Arabiya reported citing witnesses and the ambulance authority personnel.
The landlocked new African nation needs to export its crude through a Sudanese port and pipelines but both sides have failed to reach a deal, prompting Khartoum to seize some southern oil as compensation for what it calls unpaid fees.
The alleged extra-judicial killing, the relative said, appeared to be associated with Darafshan’s opposition of the Iranian regime’s policies against ethnic Arabs and Sunni Muslims in the region.
In separate clashes, protesters laid siege to Egypt’s Interior Ministry on Friday, extending a rally against the military-led government into a second day.
Sunni Islamists took 23 seats compared with just nine in the dissolved parliament, while liberals were the big losers, winning only two places against five previously.
On Friday the Islamic Republic would not yield to international pressure to abandon its nuclear course, threatening retaliation for sanctions aimed at Iran’s oil exports.
Earlier Friday, Bedouin sources told AFP the kidnappers were demanding the release of relatives held in Egyptian jails, without providing further details.
Jewish residents of Akko upset by the scheduled opening of a mosque in the heart of a Jewish neighborhood.
