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Ingush leader on Moscow jihad bombing: “The Caucasus Emirate did it, I am sure they did it”

Jan 27, 2011 12:49 pm By Robert Spencer

And why? Because they want to establish Sharia, of course. And they believe that the way to impose what they consider to be the law of the supreme and only God is through bloodshed and terror. “Russian region head blames bomb on Caucasus rebels,” by Amie Ferris-Rotman for Reuters, January 27 (thanks to Block Ness):

MAGAS, Russia (Reuters) – Islamist insurgents from the North Caucasus were behind a suicide bomb attack that killed 35 people at Russia’s busiest airport, the head of the mainly Muslim province of Ingushetia said on Thursday.

Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, who heads an impoverished region neighboring Chechnya, is the most senior Russian official to blame insurgents publicly for Monday’s attack on Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.

“These leaders of the North Caucasus underground are responsible, like Doku Umarov,” Yevkurov told reporters in Ingushetia’s capital, Magas, referring to a Chechen rebel chief who calls himself emir of the “Caucasus Emirate.”

“The Caucasus Emirate did it, I am sure they did it,” he told journalist in his oak-lined and heavily-guarded palace.

“International airports, trains, crowds… It doesn’t matter what you protect: It is like putting on a gel against mosquitoes. You will always miss a spot and they will find it.”

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack that killed at least eight foreigners. It bore the hallmarks of Caucasus insurgents and Russian media said security forces were hunting for an ethnic Russian suspect from an Islamist group.

Russia’s leaders are struggling to contain a growing Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus, a strip of impoverished, mainly Muslim provinces along predominantly Orthodox Christian Russia’s southern border.

Local leaders say a mix of clan feuds, poverty, Islamism and heavy-handed tactics by law enforcement agencies has driven youths into the ranks of rebels who want to create a Sharia-based pan-Caucasus state separate from Russia.

A leading daily, citing unnamed security sources, said the wanted man was named Razdobudko and was believed to be a member of the Nogai Jamaat, an insurgent group based in Dagestan, a region at the heart of the Islamist insurgency fueled by two post-Soviet separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya.

The Kommersant daily said the man may have organized the attack or even been the suicide bomber himself. A mug shot photograph of him on the Internet shows a young man with short cropped hair and a beard, staring defiantly at the camera.

He was one of about 10 people wanted in connection with the attack, the state-run RIA news agency cited an unidentified law enforcement official as saying.

Investigators “are certain the trail of the crime leads to the North Caucasus. The suicide attacker who detonated the bomb in the airport was a native of that region,” the official was quoted as saying.

The Nogai Jamaat, a group experts say operates under the umbrella of the “Caucasus Emirate,” was reported to be behind a foiled New Year’s Eve plot in Moscow when a bomb detonated prematurely killing a would-be female suicide bomber….

Umarov, who rose to the head of the Chechen guerrilla movement in June 2006 after Basayev was killed by Russian security forces, now leads a rebellion that has increasingly morphed from a separatist to a radical Islamic movement.

In October 2007, Umarov styled himself as head of the Caucasus Emirate, uniting rag-tag rebel groups in several southern Russian regions in a drive to establish Sharia, or Islamic law, across the Caucasus mountains.

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