The Black Widows of Dagestan: Media Hype and Genuine Harm
A curious article:
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On April 9 2010, after explosions in the Moscow metro killed 39 people, rumours were circulated of 1,000 ‘black widows’ who had been recruited by the militants. When the press published the names of 22, Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch found that she knew some of these dangerous women : a seamstress whose real crime was being a human rights worker, a pious young mother whose husband had been tortured in the ‘6th Department’.
Link:http://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russ...d-genuine-harm
Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.
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Originally Posted by
bourbon
U.S. Designates Chechen Militant Umarov As A 'Terrorist', RFE/RL, 24 June 2010.
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The United States has designated Russia's most-wanted militant leader as a terrorist.
The State Department on June 23 said the listing, approved by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, would block the assets of Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov and sanction individuals or companies doing business with him.
The announcement -- seen as another sign of improving ties between Washington and Moscow – comes ahead of talks between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, in Washington today.
Bargaining chip?
Moscow bombing: Carnage at Russia's Domodedovo airport 24.01
24 January 2011 Last updated at 17:06 GMT
Moscow bombing: Carnage at Russia's Domodedovo airport
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Moscow's Domodedovo airport has been rocked by a bomb explosion that an airport spokesman says has killed 35 people.
More than 100 people were injured - 20 of them critically - by the blast, which reports suggest was the work of a suicide bomber.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12268662
sympathetic or just pathetic
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Originally Posted by
kaur
Hey Kaur,
We just finished clearing up the Tallinn airport following a bomb threat this evening. One wonders however, if some sort of sick solidarity now exists in Estonia. At least our pathetic threat mongers fortunately remain with little more than empty words and worthless deeds.
The death toll now according to ETV is at 35 and growing with a purported trail of evidence leading directly to the Northern Caucasus region.
Stay Safe, Stan
Why a terrorist mastermind is sending chills down spines
Opens with:
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a photograph of the man suspected of masterminding the deadliest attack on an airport anywhere in the world has nonetheless shocked the nation.
Staring out from the front pages of their newspapers this weekend is not the usual dark-skinned, heavily-bearded Islamist terrorist they have come to expect and fear but an ethnic Russian who looks like millions of Russians' brothers, sons or husbands.
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Sergei Arutyunov, an expert at Russia’s Academy of Sciences, said poverty was driving people to convert and that southern Russia was a fertile recruiting ground. People are frustrated and are therefore looking for alternative ideologies,” he said. “Our civilisation is in crisis.
Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...wn-spines.html
Dagestan - the most dangerous place in Europe
A short BBC report that opens with:
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Once it was Chechnya, today it is the republic of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea that is the most explosive place in Russia - and in Europe. There are bomb attacks almost daily, shootouts between police and militants, tales of torture and of people going missing.
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15824831
Sounds horribly similar to many other places, nearly all off our "radar".
The Lesson of Russian Jihad
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Five ways to stop terrorism - the Russian way
Recommended by a "lurker" and rather optimistic given the insurgency in the Caucasus, even if that is "contained":http://sputniknews.com/russia/201608...m-lessons.html
It ends with - no, not a hint at influencing Europe:
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Ultimately, Naryshkin emphasized that unfortunately, there are never any guarantees of complete safety against terrorism. Nevertheless, given the series of measures Russian security services have at their disposal, Russians can look confidently toward the professionalism of the security services to protect against the threat. European countries, meanwhile, may just have something to take away from the Russian experience.
Rostov’s Red Army Faction
A strange criminal case in Russia:
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On 14 February 2017, a trial against two alleged “terrorists”, Artur Panov and Maksim Smyshlyaev, opened in the North Caucasus District Military Court. The prosecution claimed that before prior to arrest in December 2015, Panov, an underage Ukrainian citizen, planned to organise a series of explosions in Rostov-on-Don and manufactured an explosive device with which to carry them out. Maksim Smyshlyaev, a Russian student, supposedly offered to help him, providing him with advice on the best way to plan and carry out terrorist acts.
Somehow the case has ended up with prosecuting Maksim with:
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...a new definition of terrorism — here, it’s the desire to dissuade a terrorist from carrying out any terrorism.
Link:https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-rus...-army-faction?
Artur Panov the aspiring terrorist appears to have mental health issues; now where have we heard that CT investigations have found that too?:wry:
Russia’s domestic terrorism threat is serious, sophisticated and complex
An assessment by two UK-based SME after the St. Petersburg Metro bombing; it also looks at who might have been behind the attack:https://theconversation.com/russias-domestic-terrorism-threat-is-serious-sophisticated-and-complex-75869?
Book review: Russia’s Muslim Heartlands reveals diverse population
Worth adding for the stats:
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What is the largest Muslim city in Europe? It is Moscow. In 2015, Vladimir Putin, inaugurating Moscow’s Cathedral Mosque, which can accommodate 10,000 worshippers, reminded congregants that Islam is enshrined in Russian law as one of the nation’s “founding religions” (the others are Christianity, Buddhism and Judaism). Islam arrived in Russia before Christianity, and the country’s Muslim population grew with its imperial expansion.......Muslims today account for up to 15 per cent of Russia’s population.
Link:https://www.thenational.ae/arts-cult...ation-1.723230