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Islamic state claims knife attack in capital of Russia’s southern Chechnya
2021-01-02
[Jpost] Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
has grabbed credit for a knife attack on police on Monday in the capital of Russia’s southern Chechnya region, al-Naba newspaper affiliated with the group said on Friday.
It made the claim without providing any evidence.

Two assailants killed one policeman and injured another on Monday in Grozny, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said. The poor and mainly Moslem region has seen previous attacks on security officials and an insurgency since Moscow fought two wars with separatists after the 1991 Soviet Union breakup.

Kadyrov said the attackers were brothers from the neighboring region of Ingushetia who worked at a bakery in Chechnya. They were rubbed out while trying to seize weapons, he said.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  I certainly did not know that, b.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-01-02 15:02  

#1  Few know that it was American petroleum engineers that opened up Russian oil fields in the Caucasus. The father of Ely Culbertson of bridge playing fame was one of them.
Posted by: b   2021-01-02 09:26  

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