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| Streetside bomb kills two teens in Russia's Dagestan |
| 2013-05-02 |
| [Al Ahram] Two teenagers were killed in Russia's volatile 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... region Wednesday when they opened a box left on the street that contained an bomb, police said. The kaboom occurred around midday in a busy shopping area of main Dagestani city of Makhachkala, said a spokeswoman of the Dagestan interior ministry. "Two people, teenagers, have died, and two people have been hospitalised," she told AFP. Russian agencies quoted police sources as saying that the victims, aged 15-16, opened a box standing on the pavement outside a store, and apparently set off the bomb, which had two kilogrammes of TNT equivalent. Television footage showed the street with broken windows where the bomb went off surrounded by police cars and camouflaged officers with search dogs. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 We are NOT "Used to it" as the savages are. And I hope we NEVER get "Used to it". |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-05-02 23:16 |
| #3 Magomed, a young man in a black leather jacket who declined to give his full name Well, that says something. Afraid that the "super people" might take offense to his statement? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-05-02 12:33 |
| #2 "Americans think they are some kind of 'super people', like their lives are more important than others'; They're the world's police. We have enough of our own problems to worry about it." Both a universally held perception, as well as the hint of a solution. I hope our reluctance to get involved in Syria heralds a new trend. Let them slaughter one another as they must. Should they attack or harm us.... say nothing, but quietly bomb them into extinction. Then again.... say nothing. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-05-02 01:44 |
| #1 SSDD in Dagestan. From Reuters 21 Apr 2013: Dagestan is the focal point of the insurgency in the North Caucasus where militants wage almost daily violence to establish an Islamist state. Residents of the city of half a million are so used to the violence that they are surprised by what they see as the fuss over the Boston bombings. "What's there to say? We're used to this. There are bomb blasts and rebels everywhere," said Galia Sulemanan, 55, a housewife buying bread in Abdulayeva's grocery store. "Young people do this for money." The Caucasian Knot website, which monitors the violence, says 124 people were killed and 75 wounded in the first three months of his year in predominantly Muslim Russian provinces that stretch almost from the Caspian to the Black Sea, and include Dagestan and Chechnya. "Such things (as in Boston) are always upsetting but you know this happens every day here. We're surprised by the huge reaction," said Magomed, a young man in a black leather jacket who declined to give his full name. "Americans think they are some kind of 'super people', like their lives are more important than others'; They're the world's police. We have enough of our own problems to worry about it." Insurgents from the North Caucasus have carried out attacks outside the region - including on Moscow's subway and at the main international airport of Domodedovo, where 37 people were killed in a bombing in January 2011 - but not on U.S. soil. Many people in the region have long focused their ire on Moscow and Kremlin-backed local leaders, not on the United States, although there are clear signs of irritation in the region about some American attitudes. "They blew up three people in the United States and people are up in arms. When they (Americans) kill 150, 200 people in Afghanistan, Iraq - why do they react differently?" asked Vagib Devletkhanov, 24, a soldier in the Russian army. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-05-02 00:12 |