Fierce Fighting in Grozny Raises Specter of ISIS Influence in Russia -- Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast
Hours before Russian President Putin’s annual address to the nation, the Chechen capital saw the worst combat in years.
MOSCOW — The capital of Chechnya, Grozny, seemed to blow up around 1:00 a.m. on Thursday morning. News about hundreds of insurgents occupying schools, kindergartens and other state buildings and killing traffic policemen on the way into the city appeared on social networks and was passed from mouth to mouth. Artillery fire could be heard in Avtozavodsky district, on Chernyshevskogo and Putin avenues in downtown Grozny.
Inevitably, some of this may have been exaggerated in social media. But there is no question that a new battle has begun in an old war that Moscow—and many in Grozny—had hoped was over. Analysts also are raising the possibility that the so-called Islamic State, widely known as ISIS or ISIL, may have, at a minimum, ideological links to the attackers.
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My Comment: Fighting has been ongoing and escalating in neighboring Dagestan for the past year .... but this full scale attack by Islamic militants in Chechnya is a surprise, and I expect Chechen and Russian military forces to respond by escalating their war and ops against these groups.
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The word I am getting, is that this was not a "terrorist attack", but instead, moving to an attack, but getting stopped and identified at a checkpoint, then "free forming" it from there.
"Security" actions in the country side are still, very common, but the villages of Chechnia tend not to have Twitter.
As Al Quida and al Shaabb show, even decades of military action won't shut down terrorists.
It looks like they were intercepted before reaching their intended target .... but yes .... security actions in the countryside are very common, and Chechnya is a no-go-to place for everyone who does not live there.
In Ukraine you support the terrorists from Russia against the State of Ukraine. In chechnya you support the terrorist state of russia aggainst the rebels of chechnya.
Go figure, a supporter of the russian terrorism trying to pass between the rain without getting wet. Go pay tribute to putin ass mfk
Nice to see the airbreathers are still around,
I believe the term of endearment you seek, Jay, is "mouth-breathers".
"Paint-breather" may be more apt.
Naz,
Thank's for the proper term.
Yup, " mouthbreathers".
I feel the love. :)
If Mr. Putin cain't win a war against militants in his own country than how deos he expect to win a war against NATO... I hope oil falls below $40 and stays there as long as it takes for Russia to go broke again!
Summers,
Back in the 80's, we went head to head with the forerunner of what is now called al - Shaab,
So, that's over thirty years, and we havn't "defeated" them yet.
Columbia, with massive US aid, is still fighting the FARC, that's like 50 years,
And then you have the Moro's, coming up on the 350th anniversary of using terrorism and guerilla war against Infadels, Spanish, American, Japanese, Phillipino, Americans,.......
Conflict in the Caucasus has been the norm for centuries .... the only ones who were successful in ending it for a brief period time were the Communists under Stalin .... but they practiced a brutality coupled with mass deportations that no civilized country would accept today. Flash forward to today .... no one in Russia expects the war against these militants to end soon .... everyone knows that this conflict is going to take generations .... and maybe even longer than that.
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