"This operation was carried out by the rebel battalion Riyadus Salikhin," the group said in a statement posted on kafkazcenter.com, a website with ties to the Chechen separatist movement.
It said the June 22 attack on Kremlin-appointed Ingushetian President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov was ordered by Chechnya's most-wanted separatist leader, Doku Umarov.
Chechnya's pro-Kremlin leadership said on June 8 that Umarov had been severely wounded in a special operation that killed four of fighters. It has been unclear since then whether he is dead or alive.
Russia has stabilized Chechnya after two separatist wars since the mid-1990s, but nearby Ingushetia and Daghestan have replaced it as the main centers of violence on the country's volatile southern flank. The restive regions pose a challenge to Kremlin rule and provide a foothold for Islamist militants.
Describing the bomb attack, the Riyadus Salikhin group said: "At 8.30 in the morning, a car packed with explosives rammed into the armored Mercedes belonging to Yevkurov."
Yevkurov, 45, underwent surgery after the bombing, which killed one of his relatives, and is now in a stable condition. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has condemned the attack as a "terrorist act" and vowed a "direct and severe response."
Units of the Riyadus-Salikhin group, then run by Chechen 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.
1 posted on
04/21/2013 9:23:36 AM PDT by
STD
To: STD
Chechen Group Behind Beslan Claims Attack
Kadyrov Vows To Wipe Out Islamic Militants
2 posted on
04/21/2013 9:24:23 AM PDT by
STD
(One day closer to street justice)
To: STD
3 posted on
04/21/2013 9:24:23 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: STD
I hope the Kremlin exterminates the Chechens. I would mail them a contribution to help pay for the ammunition!
4 posted on
04/21/2013 9:29:18 AM PDT by
ZULU
(See: http://gatesofvienna.net/)
To: STD
Units of the Riyadus-Salikhin group, then run by Chechen 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.
Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (
Russian:
Шамиль Салманович Басаев; 14 January 1965 – 10 July 2006) was a
Chechen militant Islamist and a leader of the Chechen rebel movement.
Quack, Waddle - FALLIBLE and UNINSPIRED
"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;
...
that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "
"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"
--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786
6 posted on
04/21/2013 9:57:00 AM PDT by
TArcher
("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
To: STD
“Hello, you’ve reached the voice mail of the world’s 911, the USA. Leave a message after the beep and well get back to you. If this is Chechnya wanting us to stop an attack by Russia like we always did then we’ll ask our friends in Boston what they think. Don’t wait up for us to answer.”
9 posted on
04/21/2013 10:39:19 AM PDT by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: STD; dfwgator; ZULU; devolve; billorites
And Obama will claim that these bombers are just “freedom fighters” and we need to support them, just as Clinton supported the jihadis in Bosnia
11 posted on
04/21/2013 1:49:15 PM PDT by
Cronos
(Latin presbuteros->Late Latin presbyter->Old English pruos->Middle Engl prest->priest)
To: STD
12 posted on
04/21/2013 2:29:36 PM PDT by
joyce11111
(he police minute)
To: STD
13 posted on
04/21/2013 3:18:08 PM PDT by
joyce11111
(he police minute)
To: STD
....”Russia/Putin has stabilized Chechnya after two separatist wars since the mid-1990s, but nearby Ingushetia and ‘Daghestan’ have replaced it as the main centers of violence on the country's volatile southern flank. ....The restive regions pose a challenge to Kremlin rule and provide ‘a foothold for Islamist militants’...”
Russia has been fighting the Militant/Islamic/Moslem issue for eons...Putin absolutely understands that threat..”to his country”.... calls them “bast*rds” and he's right. They cannot be reasoned with.
But make no mistake..Putin will use Islamic Nations to serve his purposes and trade for Russia..... Chechnya is a thorn in his side....
14 posted on
04/21/2013 5:56:41 PM PDT by
caww
To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends
16 posted on
04/21/2013 8:19:24 PM PDT by
onyx
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To: STD
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has condemned the attack but blamed it on a 'lone wolf' bomber who had a personal resentment against Yevkurov. He also emphasized that Islam is a Religion of Peace and ordered the Russian military to protect Russian Muslim villages and mosques to prevent attacks by racist, violent, Christian Russians, who he claimed might use this isolated incident as an excuse to engage in a progrom against Muslims. (Just kidding.)
25 posted on
04/22/2013 10:30:54 AM PDT by
Opinionated Blowhard
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