[Al Arabiya Latest] Chechen rebel leader Dokka Abu Usman claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in the Moscow metro that killed at least 39 people, according to a video posted on an unofficial Islamist rebel website on Wednesday."As you all know on March 29 in Moscow, two special operations were carried out to destroy the infidels and to send a greeting to the FSB," Usman was shown saying in the four-and-a-half minute long video on the Kavkazcenter website.
One of the metro stations bombed was just meters (yards) away from the headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), the country's main domestic security service.
"Both of these operations were carried out on my command and will not be the last," Usman was shown saying against the background of what looked like a forest.
In his video statement recorded on Monday, Usman said the attack was to avenge "the massacre by Russian invaders of the poorest residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia, who were picking wild garlic in the Arshty village on Feb. 11, 2010, to feed their families."
Usman, whose claim was also confirmed by the SITE monitoring group, said the troops stabbed their victims to death and then "mocked" their corpses.
He said the attacks were an act of retaliation against those "who send their gangs to the Caucasus and support their security services, who carry out massacres."
He warned Russians that the "war will come to your streets, and you will feel it with your own lives and skins."
It was the first claim of responsibility for Monday's metro bombings in Moscow that killed 39 people.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had Tuesday ordered security forces to snare the masterminds of the metro bombings, saying they should be "scraped out from the sewers."
How long has he had a sword sticking through his head?
If the spetznaz get ahold of him, since tomorrow ...