Counterterrorism Research Library Chechnya Head of the Caucasus Emirate Claims Moscow Bombings and Promises Additional Attacks (Released March 31, 2010)
Head of the Caucasus Emirate Claims Moscow Bombings and Promises Additional Attacks (Released March 31, 2010)
Last Updated (Thursday, 01 April 2010 11:15) Written by Laith Alkhouri Thursday, 01 April 2010 11:09
On March 31, 2010, kavkazcenter.com, the primary information hub for the Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus, released a video featuring Abu Usman (a.k.a. Dokku Umarov), Emir of the Caucasus Emirate, in which Abu Usman claimed responsibility for the March 29th Moscow metro bombings. In the video, Usman asserted that the bombings were retaliation for an FSB attack on Muslim citizens in Arshty village on February 11th. Singling out Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Abu Usman said, “for some reason I haven’t heard that Putin is guilty of ‘terrorism’ in killing the people who, according to his orders, were killed on the 11th of February.” Usman closes the video by repeating a promise he made to Russians in a video released in February “that the war is coming to your streets, Insha’Allah, and you will feel it in fact in your own lives, and in fact soon.” Earlier this year kavkazcenter, the Caucasus Emirate, and Usman were officially declared to be terrorist affiliates by the Russian Supreme Court.
