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| Dagestan now most violent in Caucasus |
| 2010-07-30 |
| Russia’s Dagestan region has overtaken its neighbours as the epicentre of violence in the North Caucasus, where the Kremlin is struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency. Analysts say the region’s proximity to Sochi, site of the 2014 Winter Olympics, poses a major headache for the Kremlin. In January-June, Dagestan saw 79 attacks by Islamist Nadira Isaeva, editor of Dagestani paper Chernovik, said official corruption drove youths to extremism. “When everything is being sold and bought the state no longer exists as an operator. People look for an alternative fate,” she said in an interview. The tiny impoverished region of Ingushetia had the most bloodshed last year, with suicide bombs aimed at police and an attack on the Kremlin-backed leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov that left him fighting for his life. The Dagestani branch of the insurgency said last month it was gaining ground because of the sympathies of the general population. “With the active support of locals, the power is transferring (to us),” it said in a statement on its site. Another Dagestani paper, popular weekly Novoe Delo, has started a section to keep track of the death count in what it calls “the undeclared war”. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #4 See also DER SPIEGEL > ISLAMISTS GAIN UPPER HAND IN RUSSIAN REPUBLIC. ARTIC = Govt-Public Oficials claim it will take MANY YEARS to defeat the Islamist Extremists = Struggle, IFF THEY CAN EVER BE DEFEATED AT ALL. RUSSIAN GENERAL > opined that iff RADICAL ISLAM DO EFFEC TAKE OVER RUSSIA + EUROPE, THE LATTER WILL FIND OR DISCOVER RADIC ISLAM IS "FASCISM CLOAKED IN RELIGION"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-30 19:58 |
| #3 The cruelest beheading videos I have seen was from Dagestan with moslems cutting the necks off of Russian soldiers. It is not the only place in the Caucacus they have problems. Ingushetia is also a sore place. |
| Posted by: newc 2010-07-30 09:50 |
| #2 I hadn't realized Russia is having a hard time with Islamic terrorists inside its own borders. Chechnya, the siege of the theater in Moscow, the Breslan school siege, young women systematically raped until they choose to become suicide bombers... Russia's Muslim citizens have been causing problems at home as well as abroad for a long time, miscellaneous. Rantburg's archives contain quite an education on the region. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-07-30 08:43 |
| #1 I hadn't realized Russia is having a hard time with Islamic terrorists inside its own borders. |
| Posted by: miscellaneous 2010-07-30 02:43 |