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2020-01-02 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
ISIS claims to be behind Tuesday night attack in northern Caucus
[Arutz 7] - The Islamic State terror movement said, in a statement dated January 1st, that it was behind the Tuesday-evening attack in Magas, the capital of Ingushetia in the northern Caucus region, in which a Russian police officer was killed.

After two men ran over the officer in a vehicle, they attacked other officers with knives, wounding three of them. Police fire killed one of them while the other was wounded.
Update from An Nahar at 10:00 p.m. ET, mostly because it isn’t interesting enough to be a separate post for tomorrow in the midst of all that’s going down in Iraq at the moment:
The attackers were Akhmed Imagozhev, a well-known arm wrestler, and Mikail Miziev, both residents of Ingushetia and Russian citizens.

Miziev was shot dead by police while Imagozhev is in hospital, Ingushetia's government said.

The governor on Tuesday evening lambasted regional police, saying incompetence on New Year's Eve -- a huge Russian holiday -- led to the incident, while negligence resulted in the death as the officer was not wearing protective armour.

Ordering a boost in security measures, he said one of the attackers worked as a guard in the local culture centre.

Investigators launched a probe into an attempt on the life of police officers, making no mention of terrorism as a motive.

North Caucasus has been a hotbed of Islamic extremism after the breakup of the Soviet Union followed by two separatist wars in Chechnya, a region bordering Ingushetia.

Many radical Islamists went to Iraq and Syria in recent years to join IS and other jihadist groups.

The Islamic State group considers North Caucasus as part of its "caliphate" and has claimed several attacks, most recently on police near the presidential palace in Chechnya in June.

Russian authorities frequently do not recognise these attacks as acts of terror.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-02 07:31|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top
 File under: Islamic State 

#1 ISIS teenage fighters are 'shooting people dead for failing to quote the Koran' in besieged Philippines city as Duterte's military warns jihadis to 'surrender or die'
Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-02 10:37||   2020-01-02 10:37|| Front Page Top

#2 ISIS teenage fighters are shooting people dead for failing to quote the Koran...

ISIS teenage fighters should try that in a Texas church.
Posted by jpal 2020-01-02 11:08||   2020-01-02 11:08|| Front Page Top

#3 ...well they did try that at a cartoon show in Texas. Same results.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-02 13:55||   2020-01-02 13:55|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm sure Putin will respond in a way they don't particularly like.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-01-02 15:30||   2020-01-02 15:30|| Front Page Top

#5 The ISIS teens were doing that in 2017, according to the date on your article, Skidmark.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-02 22:06||   2020-01-02 22:06|| Front Page Top










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