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| Daesh-linked gunmen kill guard at UNESCO heritage site | |
| 2015-12-31 | |
| [Telegraph] Gunmen reported to be from a Daesh-linked group opened fire at a UNESCO world heritage site in the Russian republic of Dagestan on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding 11. The region surrounding the ancient city of Derbent has long been plagued by shootouts between police and members of the underground Islamist insurgency. The area has also become a focus for Daesh recruiters. The shootings targeted a group of local residents, two of them border guards, who had climbed onto a viewing platform to survey the city by night. The suspects allegedly opened fire towards the citadel at Derbent from three positions in a nearby forest. Rasul Temirbekov, a representative for the Investigative Committee, said that "a minimum of three people carried out the attack," adding that they believed Islamist extremists were behind it. Those who carried out the attack were not identified, but the leader of the group was named as Abutdin Khanmagomedov.
...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.... (ISIS) group has grabbed credit for a shooting at an ancient citadel in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region 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... that killed one and injured 11, the SITE Intelligence Group said. "With the help of Allah, the warriors of the Khalifate were able to attack a group of Russian special service officers in the city of Derbent in southern Dagestan, killing one officer and injuring the others," the bully boyz monitoring organization SITE quoted ISIS as saying on Wednesday. | |
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