Posted on 08/01/2009 1:14:56 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "In late June, a day or two after the start of the large-scale federal Russian military operation in Chechnya and Ingushetia, one of Dokka Umarov’s commanders – a man named Abdul-Malik – contacted the North Caucasus service of Radio Svoboda. He said that a large unit of Kadyrov’s police, together with Russian soldiers, were combing an area of mountain and forest in the vicinity of Shali. He added that a mujahedin detachment of 20 men had left the mountains and gone down to the plain. The task of each of these volunteers – each man had taken the decision of his own accord – was to detonate an explosive device strapped to his body at a place where police officers assembled, and to cause the maximum number of casualties among them. The insurgent commander also said that the two men who were first to come down from the mountains had been ambushed and killed by Kadyrov’s police.
A short time later a similar report appeared on the Kavkaz-Center website. It is at present impossible to say for certain whether the suicide bomb attack in the centre of Grozny on July 26 was connected with this story, which is now nearly a month old. The likelihood is that it was.
Eighteen human bombs were sufficient to demonstrate the intentions of the new insurgency which Dokka Umarov announced back in late April, in a video posted on Kavkaz-Center. The essence of that strategy was the resumption of terrorist attacks. They were to be carried out by units that include Riyadus Salikhiyn, the group that was founded and headed by Shamil Basayev."
(Excerpt) Read more at watchdog.cz ...
ON THE INTERNET:
www.kavkazcenter.com/
Well. I guess that for some people it is a blast to be a human bomb.
Simply a by-product of asymmetric warfare.
It has a long history.
It may have a long history but it seems to have just burst onto the scene.
Your kidding me, right?
It depends. Do you have a short fuse?
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