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*** 4-Apr-17 World View -- St. Petersburg, Russia, train explosion may be blowback from Syria military intervention

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  • Explosion in St. Petersburg subway kills 11, injures dozens
  • Suspicion falls on blowback from Russia's military intervention into Syria

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**** Explosion in St. Petersburg subway kills 11, injures dozens
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Vladimir Putin lays flowers in memory of those killed in Monday's terror attack (Tass)

St. Petersburg, Russia, has declared three days of mourning, starting
from Tuesday, after a bomb exploded on Monday afternoon on a train
full of passengers traveling between two stations, killing 11 and
injuring dozens. Later, a much larger unexploded bomb was found in a
metro station.

Russia's president Vladimir Putin was in the city when the blast
occurred, meeting with Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko, though
it's not known whether the attack was timed for Monday because the two
leaders were present. Putin laid flowers at a makeshift shrine in
memory of those who had been killed.

Two million people use the St. Petersburg metro every day. The entire
metro system has been put into lockdown, and the people are said to be
in fear of further violence. Tass (Russia) and Sky News and BBC

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**** Suspicion falls on blowback from Russia's military intervention into Syria
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No one has yet taken credit for the St. Petersburg terror attacks, but
many believe that the most likely perpetrators are either the
so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh) or else Chechen
terrorists from the Caucasian Emirate formed after Russia's war in
Chechnya in the 1990s. In either case, the attack was most likely
blowback from Russia's military intervention in Syria.

Russia is a Christian country, and its Christian soldiers have already
fought against Sunni Muslim fighters in Afghanistan in the 1980s and
in Chechnya in the 1990s. In the 2010s, Christian Russia is allied
with Shia Muslim Iran, an arch-enemy of Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia.
Russia is fighting on the side of Syria's Shia/Alawite president
Bashar al-Assad, who is a war criminal dropping barrel bombs and
chemical weapons on innocent Sunni Muslim women and children in
schools, markets, and even Palestinian refugee camps.

This isn't rocket science. Many analysts have said that there would
be blowback. I've been saying so for years, and I've repeatedly
criticized the stupidity of Vladimir Putin for going down that path,
because blowback has always been certain. You'd have to be crazy to
think otherwise. In fact, ISIS has been putting out videos
threatening revenge against Russia for invading Syria.

There have been other Sunni jihadist attacks on Russia. In October
2015, ISIS was responsible for bringing down a Russian airliner
departing Egypt for St. Petersburg. In 2013, Islamists blew up a
train station and a bus near Volgograd. Moscow's airport was attacked
in 2011, and its subway system in 2004. Last year, Russia's
ambassador to Turkey was killed in Ankara in revenge for Russia's
intervention in Syria.

But now, things could be getting worse. ISIS is under attack and is
being driven out of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. Russian
security officials have pointed out that there are over 7,000 Islamist
fighters from Russia and other former Soviet countries fighting in
Syria, and with ISIS possibly close to defeat, some of those fighters
will be free to return to their home countries.

It's not certain that Islamist terrorists were responsible for
Monday's attacks. Other hypotheses include Ukrainian terrorists, and
even anti-government criminals in Russia. But even if one of those
hypotheses turns out to be true, the global fury of Sunni Muslims
against Christian Russia is real, and will be felt.

As I've been writing for years, Generational Dynamics predicts that
the approaching Clash of Civilizations world war will pit China,
Pakistan and the Sunni Muslim countries against the US, India, Russia
and Iran. In the Mideast, Generational Dynamics predicts a full-scale
Mideast war, pitting Jews against Arabs, Sunnis against Shias, and
various ethnic groups against each other. Monday's terror attack in
St. Petersburg moves the world further along that trend line.
Telegraph (London) and Arab News and Sky News

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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Russia, St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin,
Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, Egypt, Ukraine,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Chechnya, Afghanistan, Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Raqqa, Iraq, Mosul

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