This is the handiwork of the ideological kin of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — not that the jihad in Dagestan is unique. The trail of blood encompasses the entire world. “Bomb in Russia’s Dagestan Kills 2,” from the Associated Press, May 1 (thanks to Lookmann):
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) “” A bomb exploded Wednesday in a busy shopping area in the capital of the restive republic of Dagestan, killing at least two people, police said.
The bomb went off when two teenage boys tried to open a cardboard box left near a store and both of them were killed, police said.
The explosion in Makhachkala also wounded an undetermined number of people, said a spokeswoman for the republic’s Interior Ministry, Fatina Ubaidatova. She did not have details on the force or construction of the bomb.
Dagestan is plagued by Islamic insurgents who frequently mount small attacks on police and security forces, with bombs often placed in cars or along roads. Wednesday’s explosion, however, was unusual in that the target was not clear….