Islamist group claim Russian train bomb attack

Euronews.net ^ | Dec 2 2009

[GonzoII]

An Islamist militant group has reportedly said it carried out last week’s bomb attack on a Russian train – on the orders of Doku Umarov, leader of the Caucasian Mujahadeen and one of the country’s most wanted rebels.

The claim published on a website can’t be verified. But previous statements it’s posted by North Caucasus groups have proved correct. The attack on Friday night’s express between Moscow and St Petersburg killed 26 people. The militants’ letter vowed more acts of sabotage against what it called strategic economic targets.

[loungitude]

Get the heck out of here! Islamists? There must be some mistake.

[Stevenc131]

I was betting on a rogue Amish faction, hard to believe the ROP would be involved in a terrorist bombing.

[70th Division]

He just signed his own death warrant.

[JudyinCanada]

Like we didn’t know. Well, maybe they have to claim responsibility and identify themselves to get some kind of brownie points in the islamo terrorist club.

[UCANSEE2]

You mean this guy? Doku Umarov, leader of the Caucasian Mujahadeen.

And just exactly what is a Caucasian Mujahadeen?

[Paladin2]

Well, looks like Pooty-poot’s Iranian nutjob outreach is working out well.

[70th Division]

Caucasius is a City or area in Russia. Mujahadeen means freedom fighters. They are through out the middle east and Asia.

[MarMema]

Just as I posted back when the original thread was up on this. Chechens.

[vetvetdoug]

Has Putin declared a National Muslim Holiday yet? Maybe Putin will take the initiative from Obama and support the ROP.....

[MarMema]

"And just exactly what is a Caucasian Mujahadeen?"

A chechen.

[MarMema]

When it becomes available again, it will be all there on www.kavkazcenter.com.

Right now the site appears to be overloaded, or perhaps the Russians are trying to take it down...

[dfwgator]

This is one case where I say, “Go Putin Go!” Although part of me thinks this a Putin “Reichstag Fire.”

[70th Division]

I am sure that the Russian’s will read the terrorists their rights. “YOU HAVE NONE!”

[MarMema]

Here is the cached version...

link

Caucasian Mujahideen report successful sabotage operation against the "Nevsky Express"

[tet68]

I wonder if following Obama’s lead they will bring the
guilty to trial in Moscow?

[70th Division]

You can’t try the dead. They will not take prisoners.

[RolandOfGilead]

Putin knows how to deal with muslim terrorist scum.
This Doku character will end up just like Movsar Barayev, Shamil Basayev and the rest of them.

[The Comedian]

Islam will now learn that Caucasians from the Caucus region aren't like the lily-livered weakling Caucasians in Europe and America.

They've pissed off *real* honkies now.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Yehuda]

"Mujahadeen means freedom fighters camel-mating koranus terrorists. They are through out the middle east and Asia. world and are aided by left wing pondscum in our media, our universities and our congress."

/ Humble editorial suggestion from a son of an MP... ,( : >)

[SuperLuminal]

I was sure that it was either the Tea Party members,Michigan Militia, or the Pope’s guards that had to be responsible...

[theanchoragedailyruse]

thanks for the update

[CaptRon]

I’ll bet the Russians can’t wait to get this guy into court.

[samtheman]

And just exactly what is a Caucasian Mujahadeen?

Adam Yahiye Gadahn?

[UCANSEE2]

Not exactly a large group, is it?

[samtheman]

What was the name of the other one? The one from California who was arrested in the midst of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan?

[samtheman]

John Walker Lindh

[UCANSEE2]

Maybe they should call themselves the White Panthers.

[Traianus]

FACTBOX-Who is Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov?

Wed Dec 2, 2009 6:00am EST

 

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MOSCOW, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Islamist militants claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a bombing that derailed a Russian express train, killing 26 people, according to the website KavkazCenter.com.

The attack was carried out on orders of "the Emir of the Caucasus Emirate Doku Umarov," the website said, quoting a letter it said it received from Islamist rebels.

Below are some facts about Umarov and his rebels:



* Umarov, a veteran field commander, styles himself president of the "Chechen Republic of Ichkeria" -- the term separatists use for a Chechen territory independent of Russia. He took the role in 2006 after Chechen rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev was killed in a battle with Russian troops.

* Rebel websites say Umarov leads small units of 10 to 12 men each operating in the Chechen mountains and waging guerrilla warfare against Russian special forces.

* Umarov was born in April 1964 in the village of Kharsenoi in southern Chechnya, graduating from the construction faculty of the Oil Institute in Grozny, the Radio Free Europe (RFE) website reports, quoting a Chechen website that no longer operates. Umarov participated in both Chechen wars in the 1990s, fighting Russian security forces.

* Wounded several times in combat with Russian forces, Umarov has scars on his lips and chin and walks with a limp, according to a RFE correspondent who interviewed him in 2005

* In that rare interview, Umarov said that only financial restrictions prevented him from carrying out more attacks and vowed to continue his guerrilla war. "As long as we have not completely liberated ourselves from the boots of Russian soldiers, I do not see any other way out", he told RFE.

* Russia describes Umarov as a "terrorist" and its forces have hunted him for years. He is Russia's most wanted guerrilla leader.

* "Umarov was for many years the second person in the terrorist team and during recent years he became primarily the main person although he wasn't ever seen as the organiser of terror activities," said Grigori Shvedov, the editor of www.caucasianknot.info

"He's famous for bringing in new and qualified people who are in charge of terror acts. He delegates to these people who organise and carry out the terror acts," said Shvedov.

* In June, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said Umarov was badly wounded in a gun battle, after initial reports said he had been killed.

* Umarov's fighters claimed responsibility for an Aug. 17 disaster which wrecked Russia's biggest hydroelectric dam in Siberia and killed 75. Authorities strongly denied the claim and insisted that the disaster was an industrial accident.

* Umarov's group said at the time that fighters had been sent across Russia for attacks that would focus on gas and oil pipelines, power plants and electricity lines.

* Umarov also claimed responsibility for the June 22 suicide bomb attack on Ingush president and Kremlin appointee Yunus-Bek Yekurov. Yevkurov narrowly survived that attack, one of a growing number of major incidents across Russia's North Caucasus republics of Ingushetia, Dagestan and Chechnya.

* Chechen guerrillas, then run by warlord Shamil Basayev, who died in 2006, carried out the 2004 Beslan school siege in southern Russia in which more than 320 people died. Most of the victims were children. (For the main story on Wednesday's rebel claim, please see [nGEE5B108E]) (Reporting by Conor Sweeney; Editing by Richard Williams) ((conor.sweeney@reuters.com; +7 495 775 1242; Reuters Messaging: conor.sweeney.reuters.com@reuters.net))

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