Peace Like A River


It was a wide river, mistakable for a lake or even an ocean unless you'd been wading and knew its current. Somehow I'd crossed it... Now I saw the stream regrouped below, flowing on through what might've been vineyards, pastures, orhards... It flowed between and alongside the rivers of people; from here it was no more than a silver wire winding toward the city. - Leif Enger, Peace Like A River

Saturday, June 17, 2006

Explosions in Dushanbe

From India Daily:

Three explosions rocked central Dushanbe, Tajikistan's capital, on the night of June 15 and morning of June 16, with a fourth occurring about 12.5 miles away from the city, damaging a pipeline that supplies the capital with natural gas. The first explosion struck near the Iranian Embassy and the Tajik parliament. The second explosion hit near a charity run by Said Abdullo Nuri, the leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party. The third went off near Tajikistan's Constitutional Court. The Interior Ministry said it is investigating the incidents.


This report suggested the explosions were not terror-related.

Tajikistan's police said they think three explosions that shook Dushanbe overnight were not terrorist acts.

Interior Ministry spokesman Khudoinazar Asoev said a preliminary investigation suggests the three explosions were linked and could be the work of teenagers. No casualties have been reported.

The first blast was near Dushanbe's Iranian cultural center. The second occurred near the offices of a charity run by the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan. The third was in front of the Constitutional Court building.

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