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News of escalating jihad violence in Ingushetia, though sandwiched between anecdotes and political speculation that tend to de-emphasize the jihadist aspect of the story. "Violence escalates in turbulent Russian region," from Reuters:
ALI-YURT, Russia (Reuters) - Petimat Tatriyeva was woken up [sic] one morning late last month by shouts and banging coming from the courtyard of her home.
She said it was a raid by Russian security forces. "About 15 men ... burst into the yard. One of them put a machine gun to my forehead. They said: 'Where are the men? We'll count to ten, then throw a grenade into the house'," she told Reuters.
"When my 15-year-old son woke up, they threw themselves at him and beat him up," she said. "They beat my husband on the kidneys and pressed their fingers into his eyes."
Tatriyeva and her family live in Ingushetia, a mainly Muslim republic where for more than a decade Moscow's forces have been fighting a low-level military campaign against armed Islamist militants linked to separatists in neighboring Chechnya.
But things are getting worse. In response to an escalation in attacks by insurgents, Moscow in late July sent in an additional 2,500 interior ministry troops, almost tripling the number of special forces in Ingushetia.
The escalation in violence shows that seven years after President Vladimir Putin came to power on a pledge to "wipe out" the insurgency in Russia's North Caucasus region that includes Chechnya and Ingushetia, the rebels are not beaten.
In Chechnya, attacks have grown rare, but the problems appear to have shifted next door.
Some people in Ingushetia draw parallels with Chechnya eight years ago. Then, after a lull in the fighting that had already dragged on for six years, troops were sent back in to respond to a wave of rebel attacks. That unleashed a new war.
Now in Ingushetia, reports emerge almost daily of gun battles or ambushes on police vehicles.
This summer the insurgents have killed an aide to Murat Zyazikov, the region's pro-Moscow president, and launched an audacious attack on an army base. Last week a Russian soldier was killed in an attack on a column of troops.
In July, the rebels murdered an ethnic Russia schoolteacher, Lyudmila Terekhina, and two of her children. A bomb went off in the cemetery as she was being buried, wounding several mourners.
In Ingushetia's capital, Nazran, armored personnel carriers drive through the streets. Roadblocks check the documents of everyone entering the city.
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Nazran resident Idris Khamkhoyev said heavy-handed police operations were causing bitterness among the local population.
"They (Russian security forces) are rampant and answer to no one," he said. "They are exacerbating the situation and we now fear a repetition of the Chechen problem."
Sounds like the jihadists aren't helping, either.
In Moscow, some observers see other parallels with Chechnya. The start of the second Chechen war helped the then little-known Putin show off his credentials as a tough politician. It was a factor in his victory in the 2000 presidential election.
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"In theory, the new deterioration of the situation in the Caucasus could be used to raise the profile of the successor, or as a pretext for calling off the election completely," said New Times, a Russian-language news magazine.
Posted by Marisol at August 30, 2007 12:00 AM
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Marisol at Midnight, a regular treasure here at JW. Apparently from the article, it seems that everywhere, even on the Eastern European/Russian border, the jihad never sleeps and is in full vigor.
Is this a cause for concern? methinks so.
Read on all.
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at August 30, 2007 12:11 AM
For the sake of fairness, let's highlight this part of the news too:
When my 15-year-old son woke up, they threw themselves at him and beat him up," she said. "They beat my husband on the kidneys and pressed their fingers into his eyes."
at August 30, 2007 12:17 AM
ataa,
They beat the son after he arose from an Islamic-free, blissful slumber.
They ALSO beat the husband and tried to poke out his eyes.
There is no way to validate from the story which event came first. Your point is essentially moot.
This is unlike Islam, which is obviously a poor attempt to pass off a religion, which was nothing more than gratuitous plagarism from the historically previous established ideologies of Judaism and Christianity.
Apparently, the moronic statement that "Allah knows best" doesn't always ring true, for why would Allah allow the worship of subordinate prophets and deities before finally "getting his shit together" and establishing Islam?
There is no answer to that question obviously, for Allah simply does not exist. There is and was, only Muhammad, the morally flawed desert warlord from the seventh century.
When studying Islam, as much as my soul and stomach can bear, I found poetic irony in the fact that he, Muhammad, died a rather nondescript death at the hands of one of his Jewish concubines.
That historical fact alone proves most certainly to me at least, that there truly is a divine deity, and it certainly ain't Allah, for only a slave or a fool would believe that crap, no offense to you, of course.
Posted by: awake at August 30, 2007 12:47 AM
Standard mujahideen tactics of killing teachers and attacking funerals. Could be anywhere Islam has borders.
Posted by: Beagle at August 30, 2007 12:49 AM
Robert,
i have had a request for you to speak on a tlk show here in Alaska. Can you please send a contact E mail to eddie@kfqd.com
Thanks
The Unbeiever
at August 30, 2007 1:52 AM
Islam: the Violence Escalator.
(Or the Express Elevator to hell?)
Posted by: profitsbeard at August 30, 2007 2:35 AM
putin who shares his wares with iran, now get bitten back by the same death cult he deals with, how ironic. putin is getting paid back in spades for his mercenary ways. paybacks a bitch!
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at August 30, 2007 3:46 AM
There is nothing new about this particular series of events. The Jihad in the North Caucasus has not abated since the time of Imam Shamil. The current strategy that is in place by the insurgency, under the leadership of Doka Umarov, was first established by Shamil Basayev and Ibn Al-Khittab and then formalized under the command of Abdul-Khalim Sadulaev. This strategy, simply, was (is) the expansion of the localized conflict from Chechnya to a regionalised conflict involving the entire North Caucasus. The insurgency is now under a central command vis a vis the Chechen leadership but each particular "front" has its own Amir. Those following the events in the region via sources such as www.retwa.org or even the pro-insurgent website www.kavkazcenter.com (the creation of the chickenhawk Movladi Udogov) will note the continuation of the conflict from the time of cessation of the Second Russian-Chechen conflict. The Russians have allowed the insurgency to fester for much too long while attempting to present the facade of normalcy via their Chechenizatsiya policy (e.g. the appointment of Ramzan Kadyrov as President of Chechnya).
Posted by: Amir of Kaffir at August 30, 2007 4:09 AM
...and not to forget, the Muslim (as reported here)that was caught transporting 500kg of explosives in the trunk of his car returning to Russian soil after going to Iran....Iran has been exporting weapons , explosives , and death to IRAQ, LEBANON, GAZA, YEMEN, SUDAN, DARFUR, PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, SAUDI ARABIA, AND RUSSIA. The evidence agains Iran keeps growing and Amadinejad keeps denying....Islam is a thrill kill machine uninterested in peace or the lives of Non Muslims.....When Ahmadinejad unleases his nuclear missiles , obtained from Russia (and he does have them), the body count will be high...Perhaps then, the real world will unite against the Islamic thrill kill machine reducing Islam to the dustbins of history....Islam knows no boundries, honors no treaties, seeks no peace, and worships death....Islam is unworthy of the praise its followers give it....Islam has started a world war and the war grows larger every day....It is a war that must be fought to the death...victor takes all...
Ban Muslim Immigration...
Posted by: exsgtbrown at August 30, 2007 5:57 AM
awake - how did Mohammed die "at the hands of one of his Jewish concubines?" He was murdered?
Also, have you seen this?
Posted by: darcy at August 30, 2007 7:40 AM
Oops, linked only the Comments. Here's the article:
Posted by: darcy at August 30, 2007 7:42 AM
"Violence escalates in Caucasus"......instigated by ....?
Posted by: exsgtbrown at August 30, 2007 8:58 AM
I read in a few places that Mo simply "fell ill and died." Could he have been poisoned?
Posted by: darcy at August 30, 2007 9:49 AM
Who were the peaceful fellows that give kidney shots and gouge eyes? the G.O.P.? nope... Christians? nope...Buddhists?nope....Commies?nope....Satanist?nope.....the real russian army?nope....the local Heavy Metal kids?nope....oh wait they were......
Posted by: americanmadestrat at August 30, 2007 10:06 AM
swami?...a bigot? PuhLEASE!
LMAO...oh, that's rich! I need to get that shovel back out!
LOL
at August 30, 2007 4:19 PM
hey Amir of Kafir (great name by the way), the
Russians have succeeded in killing almost all of
the Chechens command organization. What "central
command" are you referring to?
at August 30, 2007 8:13 PM
Russia (I hate to say it) has it coming to it.
ps: Chechens Command is al-Qaeda.
Posted by: pythagoras at August 31, 2007 2:27 PM
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