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“Putin signs law squeezing terrorists and their families”
Nov. 3, 2013 | 10:49 AM
SNIPPET: “MOSCOW, Nov. 3 (UPI) — Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law Sunday requiring the families of terrorists to pay for any damage their relatives might cause.”
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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mobile/article/488882.html
“Suicide Belt Found in Stavropol, Suspected Owner Held”
01 November 2013
RIA Novosti
SNIPPET: “Police in the Stavropol region said Friday that they found a suicide belt during a sweep and have detained its suspected owner.
Russia’s authorities have been tightening security after recent presumed terrorist attacks and persistent Islamist-inspired violence in the turbulent North Caucasus.
Police said they made the discovery using sniffer-dogs while inspecting a horticultural reserve outside the southern city of Stavropol. The belt was examined and its owner later arrested, police said.”
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“Winter Olympics 2014: Russian President Vladimir Putin takes on the ‘black widows’ in Sochi security crackdown
Muslim women forced to provide saliva samples after suicide bombings by separatists raise Games fears”
ALEC LUHN
MOSCOW
THURSDAY 31 OCTOBER 2013
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Russia/common/
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/10/a_suspected_black_wi.php
“Suspected ‘Black Widow’ suicide bomber kills 6 in southern Russia”
By LISA LUNDQUIST
October 21, 2013
SNIPPET: “According to Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee, a 30-year-old Dagestani woman named Naida Asiyalova boarded the bus at a stop, then detonated shortly afterward in an explosion that killed at least six people and wounded 32 others. There are thought to have been about 40 people on the bus.
Identity documents found near the blast site indicated that she was the wife of wanted Islamist militant Dmitri Sokolov, also known as Abdul Jabbar, who is a suspect in two bombings in Dagestan that injured 29 people. Asiyalova comes from Makhachkala, the capital of the insurgency-plagued republic of Dagestan. Makhachkala is about 500 miles south of Volgograd, the site of the attack.”
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Doku Umarov: Kremlin’s enemy who aims to ruin Sochi Olympics
The Australian ^ | December 31, 2013 11:45AM | Roger Boyes
Posted on December 30, 2013 at 6:15:56 PM PST by rdl6989
HE is known as Russia’s Osama bin Laden; Public Enemy No 1 for the Kremlin. Even the US has put a $5 million bounty on his head.
Doku Umarov, 49, the Chechen warlord with the blackest of reputations, is assumed to be the mastermind behind a bombing campaign intended to disrupt Vladimir Putin’s cherished dream of a successful Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Certainly, he has set out his aims clearly enough. The Olympics, he said, were being held on “the bones of many, many dead Muslims buried on our land by the Black Sea”.
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http://www.rferl.org/content/why-volgograd-bombing/25216682.html
“In Wake Of Repeated Bombings, A Question: Why Volgograd?”
By Daisy Sindelar
December 30, 2013
SNIPPET: “Now, two back-to-back suspected suicide attacks just ahead of New Year celebrations — a December 29 bombing at the city’s main train station followed by a December 30 trolleybus blast — have claimed 30 additional lives and left many to wonder why Volgograd has become an unlikely insurgent target.”
SNIPPET: “But Andrei Soldatov, the editor of Agentura.ru, a Russian site dedicated to terrorism and intelligence, says the Volgograd attacks — which took place 650 kilometers northeast of Sochi — throw such planning into disarray.
Bomb Kills At Least 17 At Russian Train Station
“I think the goal was to distract security forces. Because now, with the Olympics coming up, they’ll be forced to think not only about ensuring the safety of the major Russian cities as well as Sochi and the infrastructure around the Olympic facilities,” Soldatov says.”
SNIPPET: “Doku Umarov, the leader of a self-proclaimed independent Islamic state, the Caucasus Emirate, this summer called on all “mujahedin fighters” to stage attacks against targets including the Sochi Olympics.
Volgograd, an industrial city of 1 million, has no evident strategic value as a terrorist target, although its train station — the site of the December 29 blast — is a major transportation hub on the country’s north-south rail links.”
SNIPPET: “Second Volgograd Blast Kills 14
Other possibilities include the fact that the city is set to serve as a host during the 2018 soccer World Cup, or the fact that Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad, is the site of one of the bloodiest World War II battles and a critical turning point in the war.”
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/today-in/2013/12/a_suicide_bomber_detonated_on.php
A suicide bomber detonated on a crowded trolley in Volgograd, killing at least 14 people, the second such attack in two days in the city. Yesterday a Caucasus Emirate-linked “Black Widow” suicide bomber from Dagestan detonated inside the Volgograd central train station, killing at least 17 people. Islam Atiev, a Caucasus Emirate member, was killed in a clash with security forces in Dagestan on Dec. 28. Since then, security forces killed two suspected militants in Dagestan, two more in Stavropol Krai, and three more in Kabardino-Balkaria. Security is being heightened across the country in advance of the Olympics in Sochi.
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/12/suicide_bomber_strik_8.php
“Suicide bomber strikes again in southern Russia”
By BILL ROGGIO
December 30, 2013
SNIPPET: “The southern Russian city of Volgograd has suffered its second suicide attack targeting public transportation in two days. Yesterday’s blast took place at the city’s train station, and today, a suicide bomber destroyed a trolley in the city. Both attacks are likely to have been carried out by the Islamic Caucasus Emirate, an al Qaeda-allied group whose leader has ordered his fighters to attack the 2014 Winter Olympics in nearby Sochi.”
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/12/black_widow_suicide.php
“’Black Widow’ suicide bomber strikes at Russian train station”
By BILL ROGGIO
December 29, 2013