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“Blasts – revenge for recent anti-terrorist operations”
Published: 30 March, 2010, 02:45
Edited: 05 April, 2010, 15:15
TAGS: Crime, Russia, Hate crimes, Terrorism
Georgy Engelhardt, a political expert on Islam, says the attacks could have been in response to recent operations in which high-ranking militants were killed.
“One of the most reasonable explanations is that the terrorists needed to demonstrate their capacities right after the number of problems and losses they suffered during March. They lost quite [well-]known leaders in their ranks. It was received as a serious set-back to the whole jihad movement in the region,” Engelhardt told RT.
Recently, security services have successfully eliminated a number of terrorist leaders, such as Anzor Astemirov, Salambek Akhmadov and Said Buryatsky.
Dmitry Suslov of the council of Foreign and Defense Policy believes this terror attack happened because international terrorist activities has increased in the northern Caucasus as “the effectiveness of state institutions such as police and special forces have been devastated”.
Guillietto Chiesa, former European Parliament member, said that some commentators think this blast in the Moscow Metro is an internal problem of Russia – “a follow-up of the Chechen war”. But Chiesa himself believes “the idea that this is only an internal Russian question would be wrong.”
“We know that the Chechen War is finished from a certain point of view and the possibility to raise such a big terrible action cannot be a question of a little group of people,” he added.
Richard Beeston, an editor for "The Times" in London believes there could be a couple of reasons of the terrorist attack. “One, of course, is publicity. If we suspect that the people responsible came from the northern Caucasus – maybe they want to attract the international attention to the fight they still fighting, which went confined to Chechnya and Ingushetia and the other republics,” he says.
The second, Beeston believes, could be international conflicts: “Obviously we know that there are still strains and conflicts on the way and maybe this is the way of retaliating and stepping-up the campaign against the Russian authorities.”
One should be careful in attributing the Moscow blasts to this or that terror group like Al Qaeda, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen told RT.“Certainly, we have people here in Washington … who are suggesting the Al Qaeda is now franchising its operations like McDonalds around the world,” he said. “I have to say it serves some interest to try to paint all these groups as a monolithic enemy when in fact there may be people more interested in trying to tie what happened in Moscow to the Taliban or even Hamas and Hezbollah.”
“We know from history that to paint with this broad brush all these various groups as being under one monolithic leader is usually a fool’s errand,” Madsen added.
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There are no more “experts in Islam” as are “experts in Christianity.” Terrorism against Russia is easy to trace: Saudi money feeds cultivates local grievance in targeted local populations. Saudi Arabia is an agent of the United States. Saudi Arabia money finances the Talibans and the Al Shabaab in Somalia but also ruthless terrorists in the Caucuses. The formula is often the same. Saudi Arabia sends money through terror networks, local people are radicalised, they start using horrific methods such as become suicide bombers and the United States moves in name of fighting against Islamic terror. Russian security community knows this. So why all the obfuscation and spinning? Russia needs to confront the nations who tacitly support anti-Russian terrorists. This has nothing to do with Islam. Russia is a protector of Muslims and a friend of the Muslim world. Muslims have no reason not love and respect Russia. The last thing Russia needs is to adopt the truly bankrupt the U.S anti-Muslim war on terror rhetoric. Russia needs to fight these foreign sponsored criminals and drive them out their hiding places and eradicate them. It also needs to confront the western double standards and the relentless anti-Russia western media spins.
Is it possible for “ethnocentrics/ethnophobics” to go beyond the tectonic plates of “reified/essentialised” identity(”race”, ethnicity, gender, nation, clan, family, caste, class, tribe, religion, ideology, occupation, culture. etc) politics to generate an adequate/appropriate united response to promote universal liberty, peace, justice and security on Planet Earth???
What is the bottomline What is the bottomline here? Injustice begets violence and not to address the causes of injustice will only beget more. Doesn't that remind you of what Ghandi described? So, why continue in that direction? The Causcuses are NOT worth the loss of one more human life. Medvedev threatens to destroy them - the usual response. BUT he is to be applauded for his enlightened addition to that usual response: "He also urged officials to improve living conditions in the North Caucasus to draw people away from extremism. 'People want a normal and decent life, no matter where they live,' he said. " (Tony Halpin, TimesOnline) That is where the focus must be.