Bombing at Domodedovo Airport

[ninetoyadome]

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Moscow airport bomber named, his siblings arrested


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AP – This image taken from video received late Monday, Feb. 7, 2011 by The Kavkaz Center, a website affiliated …
By SERGEI VENYAVSKY, Associated Press – 1 hr 6 mins ago
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia – Russian authorities have named the suspected suicide bomber of Moscow's airport and arrested his teenage brother and sister, officials said Wednesday.
The Jan. 24 bombing of Domodedovo airport was conducted by 20-year-old Magomed Yevloyev, said an official working with Russia's top investigative agency in the province of Ingushetia. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to publicly discuss the issue.
Officials have previously said that the bomber was a 20-year-old man from the Caucasus, but didn't give his name.
Chechen rebel warlord Doku Umarov has claimed responsibility for the attack that killed 36 and injured more than 180. He said in a video posted Monday that many more such attacks will follow if Russia does not allow the Caucasus to become an independent Islamic state governed by Sharia law.
The official said that Yevloyev's 15-year-old brother and 16-year old sister, suspected of involvement in the attack, had been arrested, along with another resident of Yevloyev's home village of Ali-Yurt on the same charges.
A respected human rights activist from Ingushetia condemned the arrest of the underage suspects. "This is absurd and savage — to arrest people only because they are relatives of a suspected terrorist," Magomed Khazbiyev told the daily Kommersant.
The ITAR-Tass news agency reported Wednesday, however, that the investigators had found traces of explosives used in the airport bombing on the hands of Yevloyev's arrested brother.
Ingushetia's regional leader, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, said DNA tests proved that Yevloyev was the bomber, while his brother and sister knew of the plan but did not tell their parents, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
In another video released over the weekend Umarov appeared with a young man whom he said was being sent to Moscow on a suicide mission. No mention was made of the airport bombing, and it was unclear when the video was made. Kommersant quoted a local imam as saying that the man in the video resembled Yevloyev.
Umarov has claimed responsibility for an array of terrorist attacks, including last year's double suicide bombing of the Moscow subway system that killed 40 people. He is seen more as an ideological than a military figure, as many militant cells operate autonomously and shun centralized command.
Some observers have questioned Umarov's claim.
Ben West, an analyst at Stratfor, a global intelligence analysis company, said in a written comment that Umarov could have claimed the attack to boost his profile after a fallout with other rebel leaders last fall. Russian officials have said that militants in Chechnya are linked to al-Qaida and other foreign terror groups and depend on them for funding.
West said that Umarov has not had any known links to the militants in Ingushetia, which raises doubts about his claim of responsibility.
Chechen rebels have fought two separatist wars against Russian forces since 1994. Major offensives in the second war died down about a decade ago, but the Islamic insurgency has spread across neighboring North Caucasus provinces, stoked by poverty, official corruption and abuses against civilians by security forces. Attacks on police and other authorities have become a near daily occurrence.
Late Tuesday, three explosions hit different areas of Chechnya's provincial capital, Grozny, wounding three police officers and two civilians, the Interior Ministry's regional branch said Wednesday.
In Dagestan, Chechnya's eastern neighbor, two policemen were killed Wednesday evening in the town of Khasavyurt by shots from a passing car, regional Interior Ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said.
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Vladimir Isachenkov contributed to this report from Moscow.

[Eddo211]

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Last I heard Russians took him out last year. hmmm

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The leader of Islamist militants in Russia's North Caucasus on Tuesday claimed last month's bombing of Moscow's main airport as President Dmitry Medvedev fired a raft of security officers over the attack.


Doku Umarov, the head of a Chechnya-based rebel group that aims to enforce Islamic rule, also issued a chilling warning of more suicide strikes in a video two weeks after the attack at Domodedovo airport which killed 36 people.

"This special operation was carried out on my orders," said the bearded militant in a video posted on the Kavkaz Centre website which is the main channel for messages by North Caucasus rebels.

"God willing, these special operations will be carried out in the future," said the leader of the Caucasus Emirate rebel group.

"There is no doubt of this, as we will have hundreds of brothers who will be ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of enforcing the word of Allah and to avenge the enemies of Allah," he said.

Umarov, whom Russian special forces have repeatedly tried and failed to kill over the last few years, was shown wearing a black skullcap and khaki military fatigues, apparently speaking from inside a tent.

Umarov last year also claimed the suicide attacks on the Moscow metro in March carried out by female suicide bombers that killed 40 and wounded dozens during the morning rush hour.

He said the January 24 airport attack staged at the international arrivals hall was aimed at avenging Russia's crimes in the North Caucasus region and warned Prime Minister Vladimir Putin future attacks could be even deadlier.

"I am showing the Putin regime one more time that we can carry out these operations wherever and whenever we want," Umarov said.

"This is proof again that we can carry out these operations and we can execute more aggressive operations against you."

While there was no official reaction to Umarov's claim, the Kremlin did announce that several members of the FSB security service had been sacked for failures that led to the bombing.

"The head of the Federal Security Service gave (Medvedev) a list of employees responsible for miscalculations in their work, who were fired for inadequately carrying out their responsibilities," Kremlin spokeswoman Natalia Timakova was quoted by the ITAR-TASS agency as saying.

If the investigation shows that more security service employees were at fault, "they, too, will be punished," she said.

In a statement, the FSB said only that "several high-ranking officers have been called to account" over the Domodedovo blast.

The Kremlin has fought two post-Soviet wars against separatist rebels in Chechnya, but the insurgency has now become more Islamist in tone and has spread to neighbouring regions such as Ingushetia and Dagestan.

There had been confusion last year over Umarov's role in the insurgency when the rebel -- also known by his nom-de-guerre of Abu Usman -- retracted an announcement that he was stepping down and vowed to carry on the insurgency.

But in a return to prominence as the Kremlin's number one foe, Umarov had warned last week in a separate message that Russia would see a year of "blood and tears."

In the latest message, he also adopted the rhetoric of militants around the world, railing against the Western role in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.

"When our brothers and sisters are killed the whole world stays silent but when we hit back -- which is our right -- everyone throws themselves on us," he said.

Umarov called on Russia to prevent more bloodshed and "leave the Caucasus", a region where Russian rule dates back to the Tsarist era.

The Kremlin has repeatedly said giving up the Caucasus and negotiating with "terrorists" was not an option.

Russian security officials have said the Domodedovo airport bombing attack was carried out by a 20-year-old from one of the North Caucasus republics who was high on drugs.

Umarov has evaded capture in the thickly forested valleys of the Caucasus mountains for almost two decades, although Russian authorities have several times prematurely announced his death.
He was known as an ally of notorious rebel chief Shamil Basayev, who claimed to have led dozens of bloody attacks, including the infamous 2004 Beslan school hostage siege that killed over 330 people, most of them children

[Eddo211]

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Last I heard Russians took him out last year. hmmm

[KanadaHye]

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Contrary to the US, Russia usually manages to kill their "Bin Ladens". Umarov inherited the leadership role a few years ago after the last leader was blown to bits.

The reason I find this one suspect is because Russia started that stupid security colour code terrorist warning level thing in their airports as well. I don't doubt Russia is hunting Umarov down. Bin Laden was never hunted.

[Federate]

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Was it really the Chechens or is he Russia's Bin Laden?



http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/0...us-blasts.html

Contrary to the US, Russia usually manages to kill their "Bin Ladens". Umarov inherited the leadership role a few years ago after the last leader was blown to bits.

[KanadaHye]

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Was it really the Chechens or is he Russia's Bin Laden?



http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/0...us-blasts.html

Damn CBC closed the story for commenting!!!

[Federate]

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As expected, the scumbag Dokka Umarov claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing at Domodedovo today.

[KanadaHye]

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So now that the colour coded alerts for security stopped being used in the U.S., Russia is starting it now? How retarded.

[ninetoyadome]

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Russia identifies airport bomber as Caucasus man

By DAVID NOWAK, Associated Press – 1 hr 27 mins ago
MOSCOW – The suicide bomber who killed 35 people at Moscow's busiest airport was deliberately targeting foreigners, investigators said Saturday, which would mark an ominous new tactic by separatist militants in southern Russia if he was recruited by an Islamist terror cell.
Federal investigators know the identity of the bomber, a 20-year-old native of the volatile Caucausus region, where Islamist insurgents have been battling for years for a breakaway state.
But the country's top investigative body stopped short of naming him, fearing that it would compromise ongoing attempts to identify and arrest the masterminds of the Domodedovo Airport attack on Jan. 24. The blast also wounded 180 people.
There has been no claim of responsibility, but security analysts suspect Islamist separatists of organizing the bombing because of its magnitude and method.
"It was no accident that the terrorist act was carried out in the international arrivals hall," federal investigators said in a statement. "The terrorist act was aimed first and foremost at foreign citizens."
The victims were mainly Russians, but also included one person each from Britain, Germany, Austria, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
The violence stemming from the predominantly Muslim Caucasus region originates from two bloody separatist wars in Chechnya in the past 15 years. Federal forces wiped out the large-scale resistance, driving the insurgency into the mountains and into neighboring provinces. The rebels seek an independent Caucasus emirate that adheres to Shariah law.
Caucasus rebels have claimed responsibility for a number of deadly attacks over the years, including a double suicide bombing on the capital's subway system in March 2010 that killed 40 people. One of the subway stations hit was under the Federal Security Service headquarters in downtown Moscow. The service, the main successor to the feared Soviet KGB, is known by its Russian language acronym, the FSB.
This time, the terrorists are out to show that it's not just the Russian public who are defenseless, said Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent security analyst.
"There is always a message," he said. "If the message with the metro bombings was to show the FSB that they are not out of reach, then the message here is that foreigners should keep away from Russia, it's a dangerous place. The point was to scare off foreigners, not to maybe kill them but to hit Russia's image, (and) its economy as an investment destination."
"Looking at Medvedev's reaction, it seems that point got through," Felgenhauer said, referring to President Dmitry Medvedev, who postponed his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos because of the blast. When he eventually arrived on Wednesday, Medvedev condemned the perpetrators and sternly defended Russia as an investment haven.
Rebels in the Caucausus mount regular attacks on police and security forces in the region, according to police reports. Human rights activists say their violence is provoked by a savage crackdown on peaceful civilians by authorities in the region, and hold Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov and his feared private army to blame. Kadyrov, a former rebel himself until he switched sides and was subsequently installed by the Kremlin as president, denies being behind disappearances, torture and extra-judicial killings that rights activists say plague the region.
The Caucasus hosts at least 100 ethnicities including Chechens, who resisted czarist conquest of the region for hundreds of years.
Since the blast at Domodedovo Airport, a half-dozen transport and police officials have been fired. Medvedev said after the blast that Domodedovo's security was in a "state of anarchy."
Russia's parliament has given preliminary approval to a law creating color-coded terrorist threat alerts, a measure rushed forward in the wake of the airport bombing. The proposed law is modeled on the U.S. system instituted after the Sept. 11 attacks, which Washington announced Thursday it would be abandoning by the end of April and replaced with a new plan to notify specific people about specific threats. Critics had complained the general color alerts were unhelpful. Russia's State Duma, or lower house, unanimously approved the bill Friday in the first of three required readings.
The explosion also called into question Russia's ability to safely host major international events such as the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2018 World Cup, events designed to attract foreigners and their investment capital, to Russia.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110129/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_airport_blast

[KanadaHye]

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Zimbabwe has been a basketcase ever since the British left. Mugabe is a mere crook and it's Anglo African miners who are supplying ores to China. The British aren't like the Americans and Anglo-Chinese business ties are more extensive than you might think. Look at the worlds largest bank HSBC it was a opium traders bank founded by a Scots tai-pan.

Mugabe kicked out all the white farmers but unfortunately there wasn't an exchange in skills like there was when companies moved from America to Asia. In other words, he gave farms to citizens that had no clue how to farm. Then there just happened to be a drought during the same period.

Prior to colonization, many former colonies were food self-sufficient. That changed with the colonial practice of monocropping, and especially the conversion of productive farmland to cotton cultivation for European markets during the "industrialization" era.

I know about The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and its international ventures

I just find it interesting how many people don't look into the history of countries when these events unfold on the news. Like this bombing in the Russian Airport, people on this forum are informing each other. It seems in the real world, people are clueless.