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*** 6-Jun-16 World View -- Kazakhstan and Bangladesh in shock after terror attacks on Sunday
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Violent terror attack on Kazakhstan blamed on Islamic militants
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Three suspected Islamist gunmen were killed in a shootout with police in Aktobe, Kazakhstan on Sunday (vk.com)
At least ten people were killed on Sunday when suspected Islamist
militants conducted a series of attacks on targets in the city of
Aktobe in northwest Kazakhstan, near the border with Russia. The
armed gang first attacked a hunting supplies shop, then commandeered a
bus and used it to ram the gates of a military base in the city.
Inside the base, they opened fire indiscriminately, killing and
wounding several servicemen.
Many of the details are unknown, because Kazakh authorities have
closed off the area and have shut down all communications, including
the internet.
Kazakhstan is a mostly Muslim country, and jihadist attacks are rare,
although Aktobe was the scene of a suicide bombing in May 2011.
Kazakh authorities are hesitant to admit the Islamist militancy is a
problem in Kazakhstan, although northwest Kazakhstan, where Sunday's
attack occurred, is a hotbed of militant activity.
Authorities have estimated that between 200 and 400 citizens of
Kazakhstan have left the country, along with their wives and children,
to take up arms alongside groups the so-called Islamic State (IS or
ISIS or ISIL or Daesh) in Iraq and Syria. ISIS reportedly has issued
several video messages targeting Kazakhstan.
General economic unrest is increasing in Kazakhstan because of the
collapse in global commodity prices, especially oil, and the ripple
effect caused by Russia's recession. Kazakhstan's currency, the
tenge, has lost 50% of its value against the US dollar, and other
currencies in the region have suffered similarly.
As we reported last month,
there
were protests across the countries in response to announced land
reforms by the government. Protesters feared that the changes would
make it easier for large Chinese agribusinesses to take control of
vast swaths of farmland. According to one protester, "We can't give
land to the Chinese. If they come then they won't leave!" This
atmosphere usually provides fertile ground for the spread of ISIS,
al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups. EurasiaNet and Astana (Kazakhstan) Times and
Reuters
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**** Islamist militants in Bangladesh kill police officer's wife in revenge
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Islamist militants on Sunday killed Mahmuda Aktar, the wife of a
decorated police officer, as she was taking her son to school. The
militants arrived on motorcycle, stabbed her nine times, then shot her
in the head before driving off. The child was not hurt.
There have been at least 35 similar attacks carried out in the span of
14 months. Of those, 23 have been claimed by an Islamist terror group.
Sunday's attack occurred in the seaside town of Chittagong, which is
close to Rakhine province of Myanmar (Burma), and is a hotbed of
Islamist terrorism (like northwest Kazakhstan). As I wrote last month
in "24-Apr-16 World View -- Bangladesh in shock after university professor hacked to death"
, a recent string of militant attacks may be related to
continued ethnic tensions between the two sides in Bangladesh's last
generational crisis war, the incredibly bloody and brutal 1971 civil
war that made the former state of East Pakistan into the independent
nation of Bangladesh.
Police officer Babul Aktar, whose wife was killed in Sunday's attack,
had conducted some very effective investigations that led to busting a
hideout of banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and
arrest of its military wing chief Md Javed in October last year.
It's believed that Sunday's attack was a revenge attack targeting
Aktar's wife because the militant organizations had been unsuccessful
in attacking Aktar directly. BDNews24 (Dhaka) and CNN
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Kazakhstan, Aktobe, China,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Bangladesh, Chittagong, Mahmuda Aktar, Babul Aktar,
Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, JMB
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Violent terror attack on Kazakhstan blamed on Islamic militants
- Islamist militants in Bangladesh kill police officer's wife in revenge
****
**** Violent terror attack on Kazakhstan blamed on Islamic militants
****
Three suspected Islamist gunmen were killed in a shootout with police in Aktobe, Kazakhstan on Sunday (vk.com)
At least ten people were killed on Sunday when suspected Islamist
militants conducted a series of attacks on targets in the city of
Aktobe in northwest Kazakhstan, near the border with Russia. The
armed gang first attacked a hunting supplies shop, then commandeered a
bus and used it to ram the gates of a military base in the city.
Inside the base, they opened fire indiscriminately, killing and
wounding several servicemen.
Many of the details are unknown, because Kazakh authorities have
closed off the area and have shut down all communications, including
the internet.
Kazakhstan is a mostly Muslim country, and jihadist attacks are rare,
although Aktobe was the scene of a suicide bombing in May 2011.
Kazakh authorities are hesitant to admit the Islamist militancy is a
problem in Kazakhstan, although northwest Kazakhstan, where Sunday's
attack occurred, is a hotbed of militant activity.
Authorities have estimated that between 200 and 400 citizens of
Kazakhstan have left the country, along with their wives and children,
to take up arms alongside groups the so-called Islamic State (IS or
ISIS or ISIL or Daesh) in Iraq and Syria. ISIS reportedly has issued
several video messages targeting Kazakhstan.
General economic unrest is increasing in Kazakhstan because of the
collapse in global commodity prices, especially oil, and the ripple
effect caused by Russia's recession. Kazakhstan's currency, the
tenge, has lost 50% of its value against the US dollar, and other
currencies in the region have suffered similarly.
As we reported last month,
there
were protests across the countries in response to announced land
reforms by the government. Protesters feared that the changes would
make it easier for large Chinese agribusinesses to take control of
vast swaths of farmland. According to one protester, "We can't give
land to the Chinese. If they come then they won't leave!" This
atmosphere usually provides fertile ground for the spread of ISIS,
al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups. EurasiaNet and Astana (Kazakhstan) Times and
Reuters
****
**** Islamist militants in Bangladesh kill police officer's wife in revenge
****
Islamist militants on Sunday killed Mahmuda Aktar, the wife of a
decorated police officer, as she was taking her son to school. The
militants arrived on motorcycle, stabbed her nine times, then shot her
in the head before driving off. The child was not hurt.
There have been at least 35 similar attacks carried out in the span of
14 months. Of those, 23 have been claimed by an Islamist terror group.
Sunday's attack occurred in the seaside town of Chittagong, which is
close to Rakhine province of Myanmar (Burma), and is a hotbed of
Islamist terrorism (like northwest Kazakhstan). As I wrote last month
in "24-Apr-16 World View -- Bangladesh in shock after university professor hacked to death"
, a recent string of militant attacks may be related to
continued ethnic tensions between the two sides in Bangladesh's last
generational crisis war, the incredibly bloody and brutal 1971 civil
war that made the former state of East Pakistan into the independent
nation of Bangladesh.
Police officer Babul Aktar, whose wife was killed in Sunday's attack,
had conducted some very effective investigations that led to busting a
hideout of banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and
arrest of its military wing chief Md Javed in October last year.
It's believed that Sunday's attack was a revenge attack targeting
Aktar's wife because the militant organizations had been unsuccessful
in attacking Aktar directly. BDNews24 (Dhaka) and CNN
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Kazakhstan, Aktobe, China,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Bangladesh, Chittagong, Mahmuda Aktar, Babul Aktar,
Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, JMB
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John J. Xenakis
100 Memorial Drive Apt 8-13A
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
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