Subway Explosions in Moscow
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Well the last attack was in 2004 by Chechen Islamic militants. One thing that stood out in the current attack was the use of female suicide bombers; a majority of suicide bombers are males. The Moscow Subway stations is a perfect target; high volume of passengers, confined space, limited way in and out and an almost impossible situation for the Russians to establish some kind of effective security measure without causing a slow down in traffic.
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News has hit at least one major jihadi forum (original in Arabic; GoogEnglish here), but no claim of responsibility yet.
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Moscow Metro hit by deadly suicide bombings
At least 38 people were killed and more than 60 injured in
two suicide bomb attacks on the Moscow Metro during the
morning rush hour, officials say. Female suicide bombers are
believed to have carried out the attacks on trains that had
stopped at two stations in the heart of the Russian capital.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for being behind the
attacks.
But Russian security services believe the bombers are linked
to militant groups in the North Caucasus region. Past suicide
bombings in the capital have been carried out by or blamed on
Islamist rebels fighting for independence from Russia in
Chechnya. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cut short a visit to the
Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk and said a crime that was "terrible
in its consequences and heinous in its manner" had been
committed. "I am confident that law enforcement bodies will
spare no effort to track down and punish the criminals. Terrorists
will be destroyed," he added.
MOSCOW METRO ATTACKS
March 2010: Two suicide bombers blow themselves up at Lubyanka
station and Park Kultury station, killing 35 people
August 2004: Suicide bomber blows herself up outside Rizhskaya
station, killing 10
February 2004: Suicide bombing on Zamoskvoretskaya line, linking
main airports, kills 40
August 2000: Bomb in pedestrian tunnel leading to Tverskaya station
kills 13
February 2000: Blast injures 20 inside Belorusskaya station
January 1998: Three injured by blast at Tretyakovskaya station
June 1996: Bomb on the Serpukhovskaya line kills four
Rest of article at link
In pictures: Moscow Metro attacks (8 pictures)
At least 38 people were killed and more than 60 injured in
two suicide bomb attacks on the Moscow Metro during the
morning rush hour, officials say. Female suicide bombers are
believed to have carried out the attacks on trains that had
stopped at two stations in the heart of the Russian capital.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for being behind the
attacks.
But Russian security services believe the bombers are linked
to militant groups in the North Caucasus region. Past suicide
bombings in the capital have been carried out by or blamed on
Islamist rebels fighting for independence from Russia in
Chechnya. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cut short a visit to the
Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk and said a crime that was "terrible
in its consequences and heinous in its manner" had been
committed. "I am confident that law enforcement bodies will
spare no effort to track down and punish the criminals. Terrorists
will be destroyed," he added.
MOSCOW METRO ATTACKS
March 2010: Two suicide bombers blow themselves up at Lubyanka
station and Park Kultury station, killing 35 people
August 2004: Suicide bomber blows herself up outside Rizhskaya
station, killing 10
February 2004: Suicide bombing on Zamoskvoretskaya line, linking
main airports, kills 40
August 2000: Bomb in pedestrian tunnel leading to Tverskaya station
kills 13
February 2000: Blast injures 20 inside Belorusskaya station
January 1998: Three injured by blast at Tretyakovskaya station
June 1996: Bomb on the Serpukhovskaya line kills four
Rest of article at link
In pictures: Moscow Metro attacks (8 pictures)
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Suicide bomber targets police in new Russia attack
A suicide bomber disguised as a police officer set off one of two blasts that killed 12 people Wednesday in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, just two days after attacks in Moscow left 39 dead.
Nine police including a local police chief were among the dead in the attack that targeted law enforcement in the North Caucasus, a region wracked by an Islamist insurgency. Monday's attacks in Moscow have been linked to the same region.
Wednesday's first blast was caused by a car that blew up when police tried to stop it during a regular check in the town of Kizlyar in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, a spokeswoman for the Dagestani interior ministry told AFP.
After 20 minutes, another blast was triggered by a suicide bomber wearing the uniform of police senior lieutenant who approached law enforcement officials working at the scene of the first blast, the spokeswoman said.
"Of course, it was a pre-planned attack whose goal was to kill policemen," said the spokeswoman, who asked not to be named to protect her own security.
The investigative committee of Russian prosecutors said in a statement that 12 people were killed, nine of them police, and 23 were wounded.
The dead included the local Kizlyar district police chief, Vitaly Vedernikov, it said.
The new attacks were the latest blow to Russian leaders who pledged after the Moscow metro blasts to hunt down and destroy the organisers of the suicide bombings.
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A suicide bomber disguised as a police officer set off one of two blasts that killed 12 people Wednesday in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, just two days after attacks in Moscow left 39 dead.
Nine police including a local police chief were among the dead in the attack that targeted law enforcement in the North Caucasus, a region wracked by an Islamist insurgency. Monday's attacks in Moscow have been linked to the same region.
Wednesday's first blast was caused by a car that blew up when police tried to stop it during a regular check in the town of Kizlyar in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, a spokeswoman for the Dagestani interior ministry told AFP.
After 20 minutes, another blast was triggered by a suicide bomber wearing the uniform of police senior lieutenant who approached law enforcement officials working at the scene of the first blast, the spokeswoman said.
"Of course, it was a pre-planned attack whose goal was to kill policemen," said the spokeswoman, who asked not to be named to protect her own security.
The investigative committee of Russian prosecutors said in a statement that 12 people were killed, nine of them police, and 23 were wounded.
The dead included the local Kizlyar district police chief, Vitaly Vedernikov, it said.
The new attacks were the latest blow to Russian leaders who pledged after the Moscow metro blasts to hunt down and destroy the organisers of the suicide bombings.
More at link
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Chechen rebel says he ordered Moscow Metro attacks
Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov has said his group was behind Monday's
double suicide bombings on the Moscow Metro, which left 39 people dead.
In a video message posted on a Chechen rebel website, he said he had
personally ordered the attacks. He said they were carried out to avenge
the killings of "poor Chechens" by Russian security forces in February and
warned Russia to prepare for more.
The message came as Russia buried the first victims of Monday's attacks.
Russian investigators have said they believe two female suicide bombers
were linked to militants in the North Caucasus. Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin has called on the security forces to "scrape from the sewers" those
responsible.
In a separate development, at least 12 people, including a top local police
official, were killed by two suicide bombings in Russia's North Caucasus
republic of Dagestan. A car bomb was detonated at about 0830 (0430 GMT)
outside the offices of the local interior ministry and the FSB security agency
in the town of Kizlyar. Another bomber then blew himself up 20 minutes
later as a crowd gathered. So far no-one has claimed responsibility for the
Dagestan blasts.
Chilling message
It was not possible to confirm independently that the man in the video -
posted on a rebel website - was Doku Umarov. He said the Moscow attacks
were an act of revenge for the killings of poor Chechen and Ingush civilians
by the Russian security forces near the town of Arshty on 11 February.
He said the civilians were "massacred by Russian occupiers" as they were
gathering wild garlic to feed their families.
The rebel, who styles himself as the Emir of the Caucasus Emirate, said
attacks on Russian soil would continue. "The war will come to your street...
and you will feel it on your own skins," he warned Russian citizens in the
video, which he said was recorded on Monday - just hours after the Metro
attacks.
Earlier on Wednesday, Doku Umarov's spokesman had told Reuters that his
militant group "did not carry out the attack in Moscow, and we don't know
who did it".
Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov has said his group was behind Monday's
double suicide bombings on the Moscow Metro, which left 39 people dead.
In a video message posted on a Chechen rebel website, he said he had
personally ordered the attacks. He said they were carried out to avenge
the killings of "poor Chechens" by Russian security forces in February and
warned Russia to prepare for more.
The message came as Russia buried the first victims of Monday's attacks.
Russian investigators have said they believe two female suicide bombers
were linked to militants in the North Caucasus. Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin has called on the security forces to "scrape from the sewers" those
responsible.
In a separate development, at least 12 people, including a top local police
official, were killed by two suicide bombings in Russia's North Caucasus
republic of Dagestan. A car bomb was detonated at about 0830 (0430 GMT)
outside the offices of the local interior ministry and the FSB security agency
in the town of Kizlyar. Another bomber then blew himself up 20 minutes
later as a crowd gathered. So far no-one has claimed responsibility for the
Dagestan blasts.
Chilling message
It was not possible to confirm independently that the man in the video -
posted on a rebel website - was Doku Umarov. He said the Moscow attacks
were an act of revenge for the killings of poor Chechen and Ingush civilians
by the Russian security forces near the town of Arshty on 11 February.
He said the civilians were "massacred by Russian occupiers" as they were
gathering wild garlic to feed their families.
The rebel, who styles himself as the Emir of the Caucasus Emirate, said
attacks on Russian soil would continue. "The war will come to your street...
and you will feel it on your own skins," he warned Russian citizens in the
video, which he said was recorded on Monday - just hours after the Metro
attacks.
Earlier on Wednesday, Doku Umarov's spokesman had told Reuters that his
militant group "did not carry out the attack in Moscow, and we don't know
who did it".
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Twelve killed by twin bombings in Russia's Dagestan
At least 12 people, including a top local police official, have been killed by
two suicide bombings in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.
A car bomb was detonated at about 0830 (0430 GMT) outside the offices
of the local interior ministry and the FSB security agency in the town of Kizlyar.
Another bomber then blew himself up 20 minutes later as a crowd gathered.
Russia is on alert after double suicide bombings on the Moscow Metro on
Monday morning, which left 39 people dead. First funerals of some of the
victims took place on Wednesday. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has called
on the security forces to "scrape from the sewers" those responsible for
the Moscow attacks. Investigators say they believe the bombers were linked
to militants in the North Caucasus.
At a government meeting following Wednesday's bombings in Dagestan,
Mr Putin condemned the "terrorist act" and said he did "not rule out that
it is one and the same gang at work". President Dmitry Medvedev said the
two sets of bombings were "links of the same chain".
A militant Islamist group led by a Chechen rebel on Wednesday denied
responsibility for the blasts. "We did not carry out the attack in Moscow,
and we don't know who did it," Shemsettin Batukaev, a spokesman for
the Caucasus Emirate organisation led by Doku Umarov, told Reuters by
telephone in Turkey. The spokesman added that the group had planned
attacks on economic targets inside Russia, but not against civilians.
Last month, Doku Umarov warned that his fighters' "zone of military
operations will be extended to the territory of Russia... the war is coming
to their cities".
The BBC's Richard Galpin in Moscow says that although no-one has yet
claimed responsibility for either of this week's attacks, both bear the
hallmarks of previous suicide bombings carried out by Islamist militants
from the North Caucasus.
'Cancerous tumour'
In Wednesday's attacks, the first bomber detonated about 200kg of explosives
when police tried to stop his car as he drove into the centre of Kizlyar, Dagestani
Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said. "Traffic police followed the car and almost
caught up - at that time the blast hit," he told local television.
As police, emergency services personnel and residents gathered at the scene, a
suicide bomber wearing a police uniform approached and blew himself up, killing
among others the town's chief of police, Col Vitaly Vedernikov, Mr Nurgaliyev added.
Mobile phone footage posted on the internet afterwards showed the moment of the
second blast, with officials walking past a damaged building before a loud bang rings
out and smoke rises in the distance. A total of nine police officers were among the
dead, the investigative committee of Russian prosecutors said in a statement.
Twenty-three people were injured.
Mr Nurgaliyev later ordered police to increase security at official buildings across the
republic, as well as at places where crowds gather, including schools, colleges and
cinemas. Dagestani President Magomedsalam Magomedov said the explosions in
Moscow and Kizlyar were linked and he vowed to "eliminate" the perpetrators,
Russia's Interfax news agency reported.
Kizlyar is close to Dagestan's border with Chechnya, where Russian forces have
fought two wars against separatists since 1994 that claimed more than 100,000
lives and left the republic in ruins. Chechnya has in recent years been more peaceful,
but the fighting has spread to Dagestan and Ingushetia, where a violent Islamist
insurgency is growing.
Correspondents say poverty, unemployment and the brutal tactics of the security
forces have been factors in driving young men into the ranks of Islamist rebel groups,
which want to drive the Russians out.
President Medvedev recently said separatists had spread through the North Caucasus
"like a cancerous tumour" and earlier this year appointed a deputy prime minister to
oversee the troubled region. He told security officials on Tuesday that the militants'
goal was the "destabilisation of the situation in the country, the destruction of civil
society, and to sow fear and panic among the population".
Mourning
On Tuesday, Russians observed a day of mourning for those killed in the suicide
bombings on Moscow's Metro, carried out by two women said to have links to the
North Caucasus. The first bomb tore through a carriage of a train at Lubyanka station -
beneath the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) - as it stood waiting
for commuters during the morning rush hour. The second explosion, six stops away
at Park Kultury, was about 40 minutes later. It hit the back of the train as people got on.
The co-ordinated attacks were the deadliest in Moscow since February 2004.
Russian media reports are linking them to the death earlier this month of a
rebel leader from Ingushetia - Alexander Tikhomirov, also known as Said
Buryatskiy - who was blamed for an attack on a train from Moscow to St
Petersburg last year that killed 26 people.
The newspaper Kommersant quoted security sources as saying they believed
Tikhomirov had recruited 30 potential suicide attackers, and that two of them
might have avenged his death.
At least 12 people, including a top local police official, have been killed by
two suicide bombings in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.
A car bomb was detonated at about 0830 (0430 GMT) outside the offices
of the local interior ministry and the FSB security agency in the town of Kizlyar.
Another bomber then blew himself up 20 minutes later as a crowd gathered.
Russia is on alert after double suicide bombings on the Moscow Metro on
Monday morning, which left 39 people dead. First funerals of some of the
victims took place on Wednesday. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has called
on the security forces to "scrape from the sewers" those responsible for
the Moscow attacks. Investigators say they believe the bombers were linked
to militants in the North Caucasus.
At a government meeting following Wednesday's bombings in Dagestan,
Mr Putin condemned the "terrorist act" and said he did "not rule out that
it is one and the same gang at work". President Dmitry Medvedev said the
two sets of bombings were "links of the same chain".
A militant Islamist group led by a Chechen rebel on Wednesday denied
responsibility for the blasts. "We did not carry out the attack in Moscow,
and we don't know who did it," Shemsettin Batukaev, a spokesman for
the Caucasus Emirate organisation led by Doku Umarov, told Reuters by
telephone in Turkey. The spokesman added that the group had planned
attacks on economic targets inside Russia, but not against civilians.
Last month, Doku Umarov warned that his fighters' "zone of military
operations will be extended to the territory of Russia... the war is coming
to their cities".
The BBC's Richard Galpin in Moscow says that although no-one has yet
claimed responsibility for either of this week's attacks, both bear the
hallmarks of previous suicide bombings carried out by Islamist militants
from the North Caucasus.
'Cancerous tumour'
In Wednesday's attacks, the first bomber detonated about 200kg of explosives
when police tried to stop his car as he drove into the centre of Kizlyar, Dagestani
Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said. "Traffic police followed the car and almost
caught up - at that time the blast hit," he told local television.
As police, emergency services personnel and residents gathered at the scene, a
suicide bomber wearing a police uniform approached and blew himself up, killing
among others the town's chief of police, Col Vitaly Vedernikov, Mr Nurgaliyev added.
Mobile phone footage posted on the internet afterwards showed the moment of the
second blast, with officials walking past a damaged building before a loud bang rings
out and smoke rises in the distance. A total of nine police officers were among the
dead, the investigative committee of Russian prosecutors said in a statement.
Twenty-three people were injured.
Mr Nurgaliyev later ordered police to increase security at official buildings across the
republic, as well as at places where crowds gather, including schools, colleges and
cinemas. Dagestani President Magomedsalam Magomedov said the explosions in
Moscow and Kizlyar were linked and he vowed to "eliminate" the perpetrators,
Russia's Interfax news agency reported.
Kizlyar is close to Dagestan's border with Chechnya, where Russian forces have
fought two wars against separatists since 1994 that claimed more than 100,000
lives and left the republic in ruins. Chechnya has in recent years been more peaceful,
but the fighting has spread to Dagestan and Ingushetia, where a violent Islamist
insurgency is growing.
Correspondents say poverty, unemployment and the brutal tactics of the security
forces have been factors in driving young men into the ranks of Islamist rebel groups,
which want to drive the Russians out.
President Medvedev recently said separatists had spread through the North Caucasus
"like a cancerous tumour" and earlier this year appointed a deputy prime minister to
oversee the troubled region. He told security officials on Tuesday that the militants'
goal was the "destabilisation of the situation in the country, the destruction of civil
society, and to sow fear and panic among the population".
Mourning
On Tuesday, Russians observed a day of mourning for those killed in the suicide
bombings on Moscow's Metro, carried out by two women said to have links to the
North Caucasus. The first bomb tore through a carriage of a train at Lubyanka station -
beneath the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) - as it stood waiting
for commuters during the morning rush hour. The second explosion, six stops away
at Park Kultury, was about 40 minutes later. It hit the back of the train as people got on.
The co-ordinated attacks were the deadliest in Moscow since February 2004.
Russian media reports are linking them to the death earlier this month of a
rebel leader from Ingushetia - Alexander Tikhomirov, also known as Said
Buryatskiy - who was blamed for an attack on a train from Moscow to St
Petersburg last year that killed 26 people.
The newspaper Kommersant quoted security sources as saying they believed
Tikhomirov had recruited 30 potential suicide attackers, and that two of them
might have avenged his death.
Yrys
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The North Caucasus region is the part of Russia that slopes up
towards the main ridge of the Caucasus mountains, often
considered the border between Europe and Asia. It is home to
dozens of nationalities and languages, many of which have
troubled relationships with their neighbours or with central
governments in Moscow or Tbilisi.
North Caucasus: At a glance
As it happened: Moscow Metro bombings
Russia unprepared for Moscow carnage
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Russia media criticise Kremlin over Moscow Metro bombs
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