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ISIS claims responsibility for attack on tourists at ancient fortress in Russia's Dagestan
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... has grabbed credit for Tuesday's attack on a group of tourists visiting a fortress in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republiccurrently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... , the US-based SITE Intelligence Group reported. Police have not confirmed there is a link to ISIS. The attack in Derbent left one person dead and 10 injured Tuesday night. The attack occurred when as many as 20 tourists were on a panoramic terrace of the ancient Naryn-Kala fortress, which houses Russia's oldest mosque and madrasa (Islamic religious school). The person killed was a warrant officer with the FSB (the Russian Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... ). One of those injured was a member of the Russian border service from the city of Bryansk. According to the message, attributed to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group and made public by SITE, a group monitoring jihadist threat and propaganda, the hard boyz boasted about being able to attack Russian security service employees. A front man for Dagestan's Investigative Committee, Rasul Temirbekov, declined to confirm an ISIS connection in the attack when asked to comment by RT, but said that according to one of the most likely theories, the violence was committed by "militants, some of whom had been allegedly fighting in Syria." Police found 67 cartridges of various caliber bullets at the scene of the attack. According to Sherlocks, the assailants fired from a nearby forest. The security agencies have uncovered the identity of those wanted in connection with the shooting. "According to initial reports, three gunnies from a Derbent group were responsible, including its leader Abutdin Khanmagomedov. This is the same group that in the middle of December shot at fire trucks, when three members of the emergency services were shot at," a local security officer told RIA. Posted by: Fred 2016-01-01 |
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