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| Shinakov sez international terrorists to blame for the Moscow boom | ||
| 2003-12-12 | ||
| A little bit of a follow-up to yesterday’s story ... The bombing that killed six people outside Moscow’s National Hotel probably was the work of the same Chechen rebel group blamed for last week’s explosion on a train in southern Russia and a suicide bombing at a rock concert in the capital last summer, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Brilliant, Holmes! ’’We can see the same style here in all three crimes, and most likely they were coordinated from one center,’’ Grigory Shinakov, a Moscow prosecutor, said in comments broadcast on Russian state television. That center would be Basayev’s boomer brigade Riyadus Salikhin, of course. ’’Also the type of explosive and the nature of destruction were the same,’’ he said, adding that a connection could also be drawn to Chechen rebels’ seizure of some 800 hostages in a Moscow theater last year. Shinakov said the explosives belt worn by a female suicide bomber at the National Hotel on Tuesday resembled those worn by the women participants in the October 2002 theater siege. In the hostage taking, the women and their male comrades threatened to blow up the building. Russian special forces stormed the theater after three days, and 129 hostages were killed, most by the effects of the gas used to knock out the assailants. OTOH, had the gas not been used almost all of those folks would’ve gone up in a big ball of fire along with Barayev and Co ... A spokesman for the Federal Security Service, Sergei Ignatchenko, said female bombers carried out both the hotel blast and the train explosion in the southern city of Yessentuki, and that they had probably been trained outside Russia by Islamic extremists, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. In Georgia, perhaps?
Al-Walid’s an al-Ghamdi, so no surprise there. That would also make As-Seyf the moneyman for the Caucasus jihadis. ’’Big financial resources reach al-Walid and Abu Omar from extremist centers in a series of Arab countries,’’ Ignatchenko was quoted as saying. I think that most of cash is still coming from the Magic Kingdom, though ... He called the use of female suicide bombers a ’’trademark invention of al-Qaida and other radical groupings,’’ and said that the style of the most recent terrorist attacks in Chechnya, Moscow, Yessentuki, Turkey and Saudi Arabia was ’’identical.’’ Y’think?
Seeing how they all work for or with Binny to one degree or another, that’s too be expected. Russia has sought to deflect criticism of its military campaign in Chechnya by portraying rebels there as part of the international terrorist movement. Except that they’re, y’know, correct in that regard as the Moscow hostage seige demonstrated for anyone who was paying attention to the whole situation ... | ||
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 Doh! But still not Qaeda, are they? |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-12-12 10:22:09 PM |
| #1 Using boom babes is as Chechen as can be. The only other place it's happened to date has been in Paleostine, and that's been rare. Ummm, don't forget Sri Lanka. Tamil Tigresses and all. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-12-12 6:47:32 PM |