BUB: Afternoon Details

This afternoon's BUB includes a few details to go with the headlines...

Chechen insurgents have stormed government buildings in Grozny and started shooting.

Insurgents stormed the parliament complex in Russia's volatile Chechnya region on Tuesday, killing at least two police officers and one parliamentary official, and injuring 17 others, authorities said. At least three insurgents were also killed, officials said, ending one of the most brazen attacks on the province's capital in months.

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The Indian Government is convinced the the ISI was tied to the Mumbai siege.

Pakistan's intelligence agency was deeply involved in planning the 2008 terror attack on Mumbai, going so far as to fund reconnaissance missions to the Indian city, according to a government report on the interrogation of a U.S. citizen convicted in the attack.

The attack, blamed on the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba group, killed 166 people, paralyzed India's business capital and froze peace efforts between Pakistan and India.

David Headley, who pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to laying the groundwork for the attack, told Indian interrogators in June that officers from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency were deeply intertwined with Lashkar-e-Taiba.

The spy agency provided handlers for all the top members of the group, gave them direction and provided their funding, Headley said, according to the government report on his June interrogation. The report, marked secret, was obtained by The Associated Press late Monday.

"According to Headley, every big action of LeT is done in close coordination with ISI," the report said, using a common abbreviation for Lashkar-e-Taiba.

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Is Russia finally making good on their withdrawal promises after the 2008 war with Georgia? The BBC says it appears to be moving that way.

ccupied since a brief war between the two countries in 2008.

Georgian officials said the Russians pulled out from Perevi, which is located just outside Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region.

Moscow and Tbilisi agreed after the war that their troops would move back to their pre-conflict positions.

Georgia had condemned Russia's military presence as a violation of the truce.

By: Brant