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Russia: Two accomplices of Volgograd jihad-martyrdom suicide bombers arrested

Jan 31, 2014 3:51 pm By Robert Spencer

Volgograd Russia

The Russians are determined not to allow the Sochi Olympics to be disrupted. The Islamic jihadists are just as intent on committing mass murder there. “Russia: 2 suspects arrested in suicide bombing,” from the Associated Press, January 30:

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s counterterrorism agency on Thursday identified the two suicide bombers who struck the southern city of Volgograd and announced the arrest of two suspected accomplices.

The bombings of a train station and trolley bus in Volgograd in late December, which killed 34 people and wounded many more, heightened security fears before the Winter Olympics in Sochi, which start next week.

The suspected bombers, Asker Samedov and Suleiman Magomedov, were members of a terrorist group based in Dagestan, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said.

Two brothers, Magomednabi and Tagir Batirov, were detained as suspected accomplices Wednesday in Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim republic that has become the center of an Islamic insurgency. The brothers were believed to have helped the suicide bombers travel to Volgograd, about 650 kilometers (400 miles) to the north, the agency said in a statement.

Investigators were still trying to determine who had organized the attack, the statement said.

An Islamic jihadist group in Dagestan posted a video this month purporting to show the two suicide bombers speaking to the camera before the Volgograd attacks and threatening to strike Sochi, where the Winter Games will be held Feb. 7-23.

The men were identified only as Suleiman and Abdurakhman. There has been no confirmation that the Suleiman in the video is the man named by the counter-terrorism agency or that either of the men carried out the suicide bombings.

The video was released by the Vilayat Dagestan, one of the units that make up the Caucasus Emirate, an umbrella group for militants seeking to establish an independent Islamic state in Russia’s North Caucasus. The volatile region, a patchwork of ethnic republics, is located just to the east of Sochi.

Doku Umarov, a Chechen warlord who leads the emirate, had ordered a halt to attacks on civilian targets in 2012. But he rescinded that order in July, urging his followers to strike the Sochi Olympics, which he denounced as “satanic dances on the bones of our ancestors.”

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  1. mortimer says

    Jan 31, 2014 at 4:08 pm

    Of all Western countries, Russia is the best prepared to deprogram Muslims. Soviet Orientalist studies in Islam should be dusted off and mobilized to deprogram jihadists, the works of Mikhail A. Reisner, Evgenii Beliaev, Liutsian I. Klimovich, Mikhail L. Tomara, V. Ditiakin and Sandzhar D. Asfendiarov.

    Soviet Orientalists believed that Muhammad was created by later historians as a myth, designed to explain the emergence of the Islamic community out of the Hanif movement. The prophet was an invention to cover up early Islam’s character as a social protest movement.

    When Muslims accept the Koran is a human text with a history of textual obscurity and development, they will be unwilling to be suicide murderers.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 1, 2014 at 4:27 pm

      Mortimer wrote:

      Of all l Western countries, Russia is the best prepared to deprogram Muslims
      ……………………..

      With respect, Mortimer, I don’t believe that any Infidels are going to have much luck “deprogramming” Muslims—why should they listen to “filthy Infidels”?

      But we don’t have to hope Muslims will change in order to defend against Jihad. We’ve done it before, and with resolve we can do it again.

  2. Tommy Peters says

    Jan 31, 2014 at 6:13 pm

    Prince Bandar to Putin (August 2013) – “Drop Assad and I’ll give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us.”

  3. Salah says

    Jan 31, 2014 at 7:55 pm

    “satanic dances on the bones of our ancestors.”?!?!

    *THIS* is satanic:
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2013/12/soccer-la-taliban.html

    • Noboodi Busini says

      Feb 1, 2014 at 3:00 am

      IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THIS and LEARN the TRUTH.

      Really, does anyone actually still believe they can teach islam without teaching the words of the Koran? Of course, they do NOT teach love of the infidels/kaffirs. Only those that still fall for the lies that islam means peace will believe they are otherwise. I told many, many times before that they HATE the West and infidels and have seen it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears. This video shows the truth. Wake people up and spread this video on all politicians web pages, the U.N. page and everywhere and wake people up.

  4. Medina says

    Jan 31, 2014 at 8:35 pm

    Two down…potentially millions to go.

  5. fair_dinkum says

    Feb 1, 2014 at 5:21 am

    it will become not only a matter of security for Russia, but a matter of pride
    (hopefully) and as ive mentioned too, Putin and Russia are the most prepared and aggressive force against islam that we have.

    they don’t have one arm tied behind their backs.

    and i get the feeling Russians won’t really stand for it anyway.

  6. Sam says

    Feb 1, 2014 at 6:21 am

    It is sad that we have to depend on Russia to fight against Islam. I believe China is another source to fight this evil the right way.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 1, 2014 at 10:32 am

    On the subject of jihadists committing suicide/homocide attacks. Those heinous ans awful the result of the extreme brainwashing that is done in the mosque’s and madrasas by the Islamic clerics such as the imams and mullahs who thoroughly mind program other people into believing in the Islamic doctrine from the Quran of a paradise with many virgins for the Muslim who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam. The actual origion of the Quranic doctrine is, in reality, not from a divine source but it was lifted from Arabian and Zoroastrine mythology then fused together and then inserted into the Quran as well as other written works of Islam. Now this doctrine /myth of a place with virgins is now part of the whole hoax of Islam. Furthermore, the comming of such false teachers as those imams and mullahs who indoctriate the belief in the myth/doctrine as of a place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others was predicted in the Bible. Which reads “For the time will come when they will not stand wholesome teaching, but follow their own fancy and gather a crowd of teachers to tickle their ears. They will stop their ears to the truth and turn to mythology.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [NEB]

  8. gravenimage says

    Feb 1, 2014 at 4:23 pm

    But he rescinded that order in July, urging his followers to strike the Sochi Olympics, which he denounced as “satanic dances on the bones of our ancestors.”
    ……………………………………

    A violent, Jihadi hell-hole = perfectly Islamic. The civilized Olympics, a peaceful competition of athletic prowess = “satanic dances on the bones of our ancestors”.

    God, I hate Islam.

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