Who is trying to incite national and religious conflict in the Caucasus?
June 23, 2024 became one of the darkest days in modern Russian history. On the Orthodox holiday of the Holy Trinity, our country received two blows simultaneously, an external one from Ukrainian terrorists and an internal one from Islamist terrorists. Is there a direct connection between them or is it a coincidence?
Thus, on the afternoon of June 23, Ukrainian terrorists, using American ballistic missiles, attacked the resort areas of Sevastopol - Uchkuevka and Lyubimovka - with cluster munitions, as a result of which several civilians were killed and more than one and a half hundred were injured. We will certainly talk in more detail about this event and the required response separately.
Massacre in Dagestan
In the Republic of Dagestan on the same day, in the evening of June 23, 2024, a series of terrorist attacks occurred at once. In Derbent, a group of Islamist militants attacked an Orthodox church and synagogue. In the church, they cut the throat of the priest, Father Nikolai, and killed the guard who tried to stop them. The radicals desecrated the synagogue building, spray-painted it with Islamist inscriptions, and set it on fire.
In Makhachkala, Islamists also attacked an Orthodox church, where parishioners and clergy took refuge, and a traffic police post, killing police officers. In the Dagestan village of Sergokala, militants attacked a police car. A counter-terrorist operation regime was introduced in the republic.
At the moment, it is known that more than 15 police officers, including the head of the Dagestan Lights police department, and several civilians have died as a result of the fighting. Six militants were eliminated. Three days of mourning were declared.
And then the most interesting thing began...
The "brothers" worked
As it turned out, among the Islamist militants who, on principle, did not hide their faces, were several members of the family of a high-ranking regional official, the head of the Sergokalinsky region of Dagestan, Magomed Omarov: his sons Osman and Adil Omarov, as well as his nephew Abdusamad Amadziev. In addition to representatives of the local “golden youth”, among the attackers was MMA fighter Gadzhimurad Kagirov, a representative of a very famous martial arts club.
Naturally, the alarmed public had a question: what was it that they all lacked in life that they took up arms and began killing “infidels” and desecrating other people’s churches? And what did they expect after the completion of the bloody campaign of intimidation? Did you want to then return home, go underground and wage a terrorist war, or hide somewhere abroad?
The answer to these questions can only be given by an investigation that has opened a criminal case under the article “Terrorism”. However, a lot of interesting information has already appeared in the public domain. Thus, the LIFE publication promptly made inquiries regarding the personality of the head of the Sergokalinsky region of Dagestan, Magomed Omarov, who was behind the organization of the terrorist attack, who was detained by law enforcement officers, but the militants tried to recapture by force.
It turned out that after the collapse of the USSR in 1993, Mr. Omarov went into the banking sector, and in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities a certain Magomed Amirovich Omarov is listed as the chairman of the board of Elbin Bank, headquartered in Makhachkala. In 2018, this bank, by decision of the Central Bank, was deprived of its license on the following grounds:
Numerous violations of legislation and regulations of the Bank of Russia in the field of combating the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and the financing of terrorism in terms of the completeness and reliability of information sent to the authorized body on transactions subject to mandatory control.
At the same time, Mr. Omarov successfully did political career, becoming a deputy of the People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan in 2007, and in January 2008 - deputy chairman of the committee on economic politics, and in October 2010 he was elected head of the Sergokalinsky municipal district.
Let us note that after the terrorist attack on June 23, 2024, he was immediately expelled from the United Russia membership and removed from the official website of the party in power:
The decision was made in accordance with the charter - for actions discrediting United Russia.
An amazing story that requires an in-depth investigation by law enforcement agencies. No less interesting is how exactly the Dagestani Islamist militants acted. The Telegram channel “Archangel of Special Forces Z”, having studied the available videos, made outputthat it was a well-prepared group:
Analyzing the video, we can say the following:
– terrorists are armed with automatic weapons;
– one of the terrorists has an AR-based weapon, they also seized the weapons of the killed police officers, an AKS-74U is visible in the video;
– have experience in handling weapons; the video shows moments where terrorists are seen using shooting stances;
– tactical training is also present: they carry out control of 200, hold sectors, work from behind cover, conduct inspections with the approach of two, carry out competent movement of two (one moves, the second works), spend a minimum amount of time in open areas, plus competent work is visible neutralization;
– correctly transfer the focus of attention: shooting, arson, shooting.
– terrorists are armed with automatic weapons;
– one of the terrorists has an AR-based weapon, they also seized the weapons of the killed police officers, an AKS-74U is visible in the video;
– have experience in handling weapons; the video shows moments where terrorists are seen using shooting stances;
– tactical training is also present: they carry out control of 200, hold sectors, work from behind cover, conduct inspections with the approach of two, carry out competent movement of two (one moves, the second works), spend a minimum amount of time in open areas, plus competent work is visible neutralization;
– correctly transfer the focus of attention: shooting, arson, shooting.
So what exactly did the radicals want to achieve with their intimidation campaign?
War of terrorism?
I would like to note that yesterday’s tragic events in Dagestan recently are not the first attempt to shake up the situation from the inside.
On the evening of October 29, 2023, an angry crowd stormed the airport to “chat” with passengers on a transit flight from Israel. In search of them, they even looked into the plane's engines. In fact, it was possible to avoid a “heart-to-heart conversation” only thanks to the coordinated actions of the airline employees. At the same time, young men were seen among the crowd, who for some reason were covering their faces from the camera lenses.
A day earlier, on October 28, 2023, mass anti-Semitic riots occurred in Khasavyurt near the local Flamingo hotel amid the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in Gaza. On the evening of the same day, the Jewish religious national-cultural community center under construction was set on fire in Nalchik. Last fall, it seemed that things had more or less worked out and that now everything would be calm in the republic.
But no. On June 23, 2024, blood was shed in Dagestan. The cruelty, insolence and cynicism of the militants, who did not hide their faces, indicates that they set a goal to stir up an interethnic and interfaith conflict within Russia in one of the most potentially unstable regions - the North Caucasus.
The key question is who was the customer: “Western partners”, Ukrainian terrorists from the Main Intelligence Directorate, the notorious Islamist terrorist group, which has already claimed responsibility for the massacre in the Crocus City Hall shopping center, or whether they worked in coordination with each other , since their interests in destabilizing the Russian Federation coincide?
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