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**** ISIS claims credit for coordinated attacks across Russia's Chechnya region
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Grozny, Chechnya, after massive slaughter and destruction by Russians in 1999
ISIS is taking credit for a series of coordinated terror attacks on
security forces in several suburbs of Grozny, the capital city of
Russia's autonomous republic of Chechnya.
In one incident, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a
police station, injuring several policemen. The attacker survived and
was hospitalized.
In another incident, two men with knives entered a district police
department and wounded two policemen and a female bystander with
knives. The two assailants were shot dead.
In another incident, two assailants tried to blow up a truck loaded
with gas canisters in a suicide mission, but the vehicle failed to
explode. The two were shot dead by police.
In yet another incident, an attacker was allegedly shot dead after
hitting a traffic policeman with his car. There were also reports of
a shoot-out between police officers and attackers in the street,
killing one officer.
All of the assailants were teenagers, aged 11-17. Five were shot
dead.
Amaq, the public relations agency for the so-called Islamic State (IS
or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh) claimed credit for the coordinated attack.
ISIS frequently claims credit for terror attacks in which it didn't
participate, and that appears to be true in this case. However,
executing several coordinated attacks at separate locations requires a
moderate amount of sophistication, and since the terrorists were all
teens, they might have had help from someone.
Chechnya is one of Russia's provinces in the North Caucasus region,
which is largely populated by Muslims. Xenophobic tensions between
the Christian Orthodox ethnic Russians and the Muslim Caucasians have
been growing in recent years.
Ramzan Kadyrov is president of Chechnya. He's bloody and brutal, and
will use any means necessary to keep the region stable, and he is also
extremely loyal to Russia's president Vladimir Putin. International
human rights groups, however, have accused Kadyrov of rampant rights
abuses, including arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial killings by his
feared security forces.
Kadyrov played down the importance of the terror attacks on Monday,
said that extremist propaganda that "confuses the young men" was to
blame for the assaults. He said the attacks were staged to "darken"
the festivities as Muslims celebrate the Eid al-Adha holiday.
Tass (Moscow) and
RFE/RL and Al Jazeera and AP
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**** Brief generational history of Chechnya
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The fact that Monday's coordinated terror attacks were perpetrated by
teenagers aged 11-17 is a lot more significant than Chechnya's
president Ramzan Kadyrov is saying.
But first, let's briefly look at the terrorist bombings at the Boston
Marathon on April 15, 2013.
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were ethnic Chechens (from Chechnya),
but they were born in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. What were ethnic
Chechens doing in Kyrgyzstan?
Chechnya and Russia had fought numerous wars for centuries, but
Russia's dictator Josef Stalin finally decided to adopt a "final
solution." In 1944, there was a mass deportation of ethnic Chechens,
forced to move from Chechnya to Central Asia, including Kyrgyzstan.
It was apparently this forced deportation that radicalized the
Tsarnaev brothers, and caused them to carry out the Boston Marathon
bombing in 2013.
In August 1957, six years ago this month, ethnic Russians living in
Chechnya revolted against the authorities when Moscow allowed the
Chechens who had been deported from there in 1944 to return and take
back property and power that had passed from that ethnic community to
Russians the authorities had moved in to occupy the territory. Of
course, the returning Chechens found that their former homes were
occupied by ethnic Russians.
Going back to the 1990s, there were two major "Chechen wars" between
Russian forces and Chechen separatists. In December 1994, the Russian
army was sent into the capital city Grozny to take care of some
protesters. They expected the operation to take no more than a day or
two. Instead, the Russian army forces were ambushed by Chechen
separatist forces. A bloody battle ensued that lasted into February,
and although the Russian forces finally won, it was extremely
humiliating for the Russians, since tens of thousands of combatants
and civilians were killed before it ended.
Russian troops got their revenge in 1999, when they had to respond to
a new insurgency of pro-separatist activists. In Russia's 1990s war
Chechnya, Russian warplanes bombed schools and hospitals in order to
create a refugee crisis, and to empty the urban residential areas.
Once that was achieved, heavy weapons could be deployed to eradicate
opposing forces, entailing widespread destruction of homes and
infrastructure.
This is the same strategy, known as the "Grozny Model," that Putin and
Syria's president Bashar al-Assad have been using in Aleppo, Ghouta,
Daraa and other Syrian battlegrounds, although al-Assad is speeding up
the creation and slaughter of refugees by using chemical weapons,
including Sarin gas and chlorine gas.
So Monday's terrorist attackers are all teenagers, aged 11-17. Ramzan
Kadyrov played down the attack, saying that the attackers were
"confused young men," but that's far from the truth. This is a new
up-and-coming generation of kids growing up after the Grozny mass
slaughter in 1999.
In fact, authorities reportedly identified the 17-year-old attacker as
Ali Akhmatkhanov -- a younger brother of Khizir Akhmatkhanov, who was
sentenced to a lengthy prison term for his involvement in a terrorist
attack in the Chechen city of Gudermes in 2001.
So this is not a generation of confused kids. This is a generation of
kids is looking for revenge. It would not be surprising to see more
terrorist acts by Chechens in the months to come. Eurasia Review and Global Security and Rand Corp.
Related Articles:
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Russia, Chechnya, Grozny, Ramzan Kadyrov,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Kyrgyzstan,
Grozny Model, Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Aleppo, Ghouta, Daraa,
Ali Akhmatkhanov, Khizir Akhmatkhanov
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- ISIS claims credit for coordinated attacks across Russia's Chechnya region
- Brief generational history of Chechnya
****
**** ISIS claims credit for coordinated attacks across Russia's Chechnya region
****
Grozny, Chechnya, after massive slaughter and destruction by Russians in 1999
ISIS is taking credit for a series of coordinated terror attacks on
security forces in several suburbs of Grozny, the capital city of
Russia's autonomous republic of Chechnya.
In one incident, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a
police station, injuring several policemen. The attacker survived and
was hospitalized.
In another incident, two men with knives entered a district police
department and wounded two policemen and a female bystander with
knives. The two assailants were shot dead.
In another incident, two assailants tried to blow up a truck loaded
with gas canisters in a suicide mission, but the vehicle failed to
explode. The two were shot dead by police.
In yet another incident, an attacker was allegedly shot dead after
hitting a traffic policeman with his car. There were also reports of
a shoot-out between police officers and attackers in the street,
killing one officer.
All of the assailants were teenagers, aged 11-17. Five were shot
dead.
Amaq, the public relations agency for the so-called Islamic State (IS
or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh) claimed credit for the coordinated attack.
ISIS frequently claims credit for terror attacks in which it didn't
participate, and that appears to be true in this case. However,
executing several coordinated attacks at separate locations requires a
moderate amount of sophistication, and since the terrorists were all
teens, they might have had help from someone.
Chechnya is one of Russia's provinces in the North Caucasus region,
which is largely populated by Muslims. Xenophobic tensions between
the Christian Orthodox ethnic Russians and the Muslim Caucasians have
been growing in recent years.
Ramzan Kadyrov is president of Chechnya. He's bloody and brutal, and
will use any means necessary to keep the region stable, and he is also
extremely loyal to Russia's president Vladimir Putin. International
human rights groups, however, have accused Kadyrov of rampant rights
abuses, including arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial killings by his
feared security forces.
Kadyrov played down the importance of the terror attacks on Monday,
said that extremist propaganda that "confuses the young men" was to
blame for the assaults. He said the attacks were staged to "darken"
the festivities as Muslims celebrate the Eid al-Adha holiday.
Tass (Moscow) and
RFE/RL and Al Jazeera and AP
****
**** Brief generational history of Chechnya
****
The fact that Monday's coordinated terror attacks were perpetrated by
teenagers aged 11-17 is a lot more significant than Chechnya's
president Ramzan Kadyrov is saying.
But first, let's briefly look at the terrorist bombings at the Boston
Marathon on April 15, 2013.
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were ethnic Chechens (from Chechnya),
but they were born in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia. What were ethnic
Chechens doing in Kyrgyzstan?
Chechnya and Russia had fought numerous wars for centuries, but
Russia's dictator Josef Stalin finally decided to adopt a "final
solution." In 1944, there was a mass deportation of ethnic Chechens,
forced to move from Chechnya to Central Asia, including Kyrgyzstan.
It was apparently this forced deportation that radicalized the
Tsarnaev brothers, and caused them to carry out the Boston Marathon
bombing in 2013.
In August 1957, six years ago this month, ethnic Russians living in
Chechnya revolted against the authorities when Moscow allowed the
Chechens who had been deported from there in 1944 to return and take
back property and power that had passed from that ethnic community to
Russians the authorities had moved in to occupy the territory. Of
course, the returning Chechens found that their former homes were
occupied by ethnic Russians.
Going back to the 1990s, there were two major "Chechen wars" between
Russian forces and Chechen separatists. In December 1994, the Russian
army was sent into the capital city Grozny to take care of some
protesters. They expected the operation to take no more than a day or
two. Instead, the Russian army forces were ambushed by Chechen
separatist forces. A bloody battle ensued that lasted into February,
and although the Russian forces finally won, it was extremely
humiliating for the Russians, since tens of thousands of combatants
and civilians were killed before it ended.
Russian troops got their revenge in 1999, when they had to respond to
a new insurgency of pro-separatist activists. In Russia's 1990s war
Chechnya, Russian warplanes bombed schools and hospitals in order to
create a refugee crisis, and to empty the urban residential areas.
Once that was achieved, heavy weapons could be deployed to eradicate
opposing forces, entailing widespread destruction of homes and
infrastructure.
This is the same strategy, known as the "Grozny Model," that Putin and
Syria's president Bashar al-Assad have been using in Aleppo, Ghouta,
Daraa and other Syrian battlegrounds, although al-Assad is speeding up
the creation and slaughter of refugees by using chemical weapons,
including Sarin gas and chlorine gas.
So Monday's terrorist attackers are all teenagers, aged 11-17. Ramzan
Kadyrov played down the attack, saying that the attackers were
"confused young men," but that's far from the truth. This is a new
up-and-coming generation of kids growing up after the Grozny mass
slaughter in 1999.
In fact, authorities reportedly identified the 17-year-old attacker as
Ali Akhmatkhanov -- a younger brother of Khizir Akhmatkhanov, who was
sentenced to a lengthy prison term for his involvement in a terrorist
attack in the Chechen city of Gudermes in 2001.
So this is not a generation of confused kids. This is a generation of
kids is looking for revenge. It would not be surprising to see more
terrorist acts by Chechens in the months to come. Eurasia Review and Global Security and Rand Corp.
Related Articles:
- Russia's Chechnya becomes biggest contributor of jihadists to ISIS (18-Apr-2015)
- Russia's attacks on civilian hospitals in Aleppo follow the 'Grozny model' (19-Feb-2016)
- Syria and Russia continue 'Grozny Model,' killing women and children in Aleppo refugee camp (06-May-2016)
- Generational analysis of Boston Marathon bombings (20-Apr-2013)
- Chechnya terrorist Doku Umarov takes credit for Moscow airport bombing (09-Feb-2011)
- American bloggers confuse 'Chechnya' with 'Czech Republic' (21-Apr-2013)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Russia, Chechnya, Grozny, Ramzan Kadyrov,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Kyrgyzstan,
Grozny Model, Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Aleppo, Ghouta, Daraa,
Ali Akhmatkhanov, Khizir Akhmatkhanov
Permanent web link to this article
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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
Subscribe to World View: http://generationaldynamics.com/subscribe
