Posted on 06/24/2024 12:05:17 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Sunday’s terrorist attacks in Dagestan that left at least 19 people dead have highlighted Russia’s growing difficulties in managing a tide of Islamist terror at home as its security forces are engaged in the war in Ukraine.
The attacks, carried out by four gunmen in Dagestan’s capital, Makhachkala, and two in the seaside city of Derbent, appeared to catch Dagestani officials by surprise. At least 15 police officers were among those killed, and the attackers also burned down a synagogue and set fire to a church in acts that Russian officials are clearly concerned could lead to a tide of inter-ethnic violence at home.
The mostly Muslim region in the North Caucasus in southern Russia is one of the country’s most restive, and the growing social unrest and violence there could indicate that the Kremlin is struggling to maintain order at home amid Vladimir Putin’s singular focus on his generational conflict with the west.
The attacks, which included a drive-by shooting targeting traffic police, were reminiscent of regular terror attacks that plagued the city in the 2000s. No group has taken responsibility but analysts have suggested they could be tied to Islamic State’s North Caucasus branch, Vilayat Kavkaz.
Coming just months after the Moscow concert hall attack, where IS-linked militants killed 145 people, and last year’s antisemitic rioting at the Dagestan airport, the new attacks will raise concerns about a growing pool of radicalised young people in Russia and in particular in the North Caucasus, where societal tensions on multiple fronts appear close to a boiling point.
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I wonder if these IS fighters were trained and equipped by the same people that trained and equipped the IS fighters who fought against Assad in Syria?
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Posts the dim bulb who squats in a country with over 40 million illegal, unvetted aliens. Tools of the Deep State should shut the @&#% up.
Islamic terrorists... nothing less nothing more.
Be careful, a giant portion of Putin's army are islamic terrorists. Don't want to offend the Putin fans here.
Muzzies gonna muzz. And Putin keeps building mosques for them.
“Posts the dim bulb who squats in a country with over 40 million illegal, unvetted aliens. Tools of the Deep State should shut the @&#% up.”
I don’t think it’s an American. I think it’s a Ukrainian nationalist. What else could explain the deranged hatred for Russians?
You already posted this. Does this stuff make you cream your jeans? Sick, sick, sick gloating over a terrorist attack. Does a priest getting his throat slit give you a thrill?
Your Putin really loves his Muslim savages, doesn’t he?
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Have you Puffed The Biden today?
What’s that got to do with terrorists cutting a priest’s throat? This is more derangement from you.
When will “Putin” make a statement on the terror attacks in Dagestan? Why is he hiding from the press?
The same Chechen Muslims who carried out this attack are fighting by the thousands FOR Russia in Ukraine. So yeah, this is a real pickle for Putin. He got in bed with these savages.
More Dagestanis killed in Ukraine in Putin’s war than from any other of Russia’s “republics”.
The Muslim republics in Russia will rebel after the reign of Putin. We have no idea what will happen to Russia after Putin, if it’s anything like the ‘90s, Dagestan, Chechnya, etc will declare independence.
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Who cares? Only you, it seems.
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