Suicide bombers kill 12, wound 110 in Dagestan, Russia

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Investigators work at the site of two blasts in the Dagestan's capital Makhachkala, early on Friday.

MAKHACHKALA, Russia - Suicide bombers killed 12 people and wounded 110 in attacks on a police post on the outskirts of the capital of Russia's Dagestan region, local investigators and law enforcement sources said Friday. 

The attacks outside Makhachkala late Thursday were the deadliest in months, undermining efforts by Russian security forces to contain an Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus region near Sochi, where Russia will host the Winter Olympics in 2014. 


More than a decade after federal troops toppled an Islamist government in Chechnya, also in the North Caucasus, security forces are fighting militants whose ranks are swollen by anger at poverty, clan feuds and pervasive corruption. 

The first suicide bomber detonated a bomb when police stopped a vehicle to check documents, a statement by the National Anti-Terrorist Committee said.

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The second explosion came when fire brigades and ambulances arrived, causing additional casualties. 

A witness at the scene said a fire truck was reduced to charred wreckage. 

"After the blast, only the wheels of the truck remained whole," the witness told reporters. 

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Television pictures show the site of a blast in Makhachkala on May 4, 2012.

Local officials said that in addition to the 12 killed in the blast, 90 had been taken to hospital and 20 were treated at the scene. 

"Fragments of human bodies are scattered at the post," Russia's Interfax news agency quoted a law enforcement official as saying. 

Local investigators said they had found the remains of a man and a woman suspected of being the suicide bombers. 

Thursday's blasts were heard by residents far away in the center of Makhachkala. 

The attacks fell just three days before Vladimir Putin, who sent troops 12 years ago to crush rebellion in Chechnya, is to be sworn in as president. 

An unofficial Islamist website, kavkazcenter.com, said the police post was almost completely destroyed. A nearby gas pipeline also was damaged during the attack, RIA news agency reported. 

Dagestan faces near daily shootings and bombings blamed on Islamist rebels. It has become the epicenter of violence in the low-level insurgency across the mainly Muslim North Caucasus following two separatist wars in Chechnya. 

The insurgents want to create an Islamic state in the region. They have said they were behind a suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport that killed 37 people in January 2011 and twin bombings that killed 40 people on Moscow's metro in 2010. 

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These Islamic extremists are nothing more than cowards, in every part of the world. This religion has provided nothing of benefit to the world or even to each other, only death, destruction and hate. I feel sorry for the children who have to grow up with these beliefs and are forced to be a slave. Give them some land, close it off and let them kill each other in the name of Allah. This world would be a much better place without these animals. (No offense to animals)

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Reply#1 - Fri May 4, 2012 11:12 AM EDT

I love this world man , in the name of god or stone or any other religions or fenatisem all is blonies .

I blive comes around goes around , if russians like muslims around the world and support them in syria , iran ,,,,,,,,,,,,,etc .now they should take their owen medecin .

Hope to see all russia and china to be muslims ,so they can see who they was suporting instead of vitoing the world power .

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#1.1 - Fri May 4, 2012 12:08 PM EDT

damn dude, what language are you speaking?

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#1.2 - Sat May 5, 2012 1:01 AM EDT

Probably not his first language 8)

The religion of peace strikes again

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#1.3 - Sat May 5, 2012 10:38 PM EDT

How much more proof is needed at the hands of innocent peoples lives taken by savages and we allow this religion in the united states there are no peacefull islamics just ticking time bombs waiting to explode!

    #1.4 - Mon May 7, 2012 4:56 PM EDT
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    Islamic radicalism and militancy are the biggest problems in non-Muslim nations.

    Many Muslims have taken fast backward march to seventh century barbaric desert days.

    They kill each other in Muslim majority nations.

    Pakistan, Syria, Yemen are some clear cut examples.

    Fast downward march starts when Muslims form more than five percent. Muslims' contributions in non-Muslim nations are mostly negative.

    Russia had their problems in Muslim dominated Chechnya and Dagestan.

    All non-Muslims should join hands against these Islamic radicalism and terrorism.

    Better to join hands and battle them right away.

    Message should be: if you kill one, we will kill ten.

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    Reply#2 - Fri May 4, 2012 11:18 AM EDT

    And you kill one, we kill ten should be ONLY the beginning. From there, it goes,when you get to killing ten , we wipe out one city block of yours, then from 100 to wiping out a city, then on from there, exactly as we should do in Iraq, Afghanistan, and anywhere else Islamist idiots think that terroism is the answer. But we have such a punk in the WH right now who "doesn't feel comfortable with the concept of victory" the fool bozobama'z own words, that it won't happen until sfter we toss him in November and get someone in the WH who has a pair.

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    #2.1 - Sat May 5, 2012 10:15 PM EDT
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    m.o., same ol' same ol' ; the spread of extremism and the common use of terrorism will unravel all civilization. i am sure there is frustration and injustice; why kill the innocent? how can ANY god bless this?!

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    Reply#3 - Fri May 4, 2012 11:20 AM EDT

    OK Russia. No waterboarding allowed when you find the perps who planned this. In fact build them some schools and feed them and it won't happen again.

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    Reply#4 - Fri May 4, 2012 11:36 AM EDT

    People wake up you dont bargain with terrorists you find them and kill them before they behead you and your family!

      #4.1 - Mon May 7, 2012 5:00 PM EDT
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      Get OUT of the Middle East and Afghanistant AND LET Russia and China have some fun. Russia still has illusions of returning to the glory days of the Soviet Union, being friend to and supporter of anything anti-West and the ONLY thing China cares about is making a buck. Let them have it and tell them what a good time it is AS WE LEAVE.

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      Reply#5 - Fri May 4, 2012 11:38 AM EDT

      I love this world man , in the name of god or stone or any other religions or fenatisem and all crap .

      I believe comes around goes around , if russians like muslims around the world and support them in syria , iran ,,,,,,,,,,,,,etc .now they should taste their owen medicine .

      Hope to see all russia and china to be muslims ,so they can see who they was supporting instead of vetoing the world power .

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      Reply#6 - Fri May 4, 2012 12:17 PM EDT

      China's day is coming as well, lets let them pay in "blood and treasure" for a change! don't know why Russia keeps supporting extremist states but it won't help, the Muslims want to kill them anyway!

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      Reply#7 - Fri May 4, 2012 2:13 PM EDT

      Tom Clancy called Dagestan being hit in his latest book. Wierd!

        Reply#8 - Fri May 4, 2012 4:14 PM EDT

        Wow these Christian suicide bombers really get around (sarcasm )

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        Reply#9 - Fri May 4, 2012 4:40 PM EDT

        And Russia is still helping Iran! The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend!

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        Reply#10 - Fri May 4, 2012 5:44 PM EDT

        The Russians should line up 10000 camel f**king muslims and shoot them and baury them in pig @!$%# and guts. Every Russian they kill add another "0" until the maggot muslim @!$%#heads get the idea that they will be exterminated once and for all. Go ISRAEL

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        Reply#11 - Fri May 4, 2012 11:46 PM EDT

        JT13 Israel should get the hell off stolen land and they will have no terrorism to deal with. Go PALESTINE!!!

          #11.1 - Sun May 6, 2012 9:37 AM EDT

          I had a chance to read some of your comments and I see you have a hatred for people you don't even know. More killing and more hardship is brought on by people of your own religion.. does a bomb need to blow up in your neighborhood and kill one of your family members by a Muslim extremest trying to murder an infidel. So sorry you have the hatred in you. look back as you where growing up and remember who started this. find the "cure" and it's not in your beliefs.

            #11.2 - Mon May 7, 2012 1:57 PM EDT
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            That Nuclear solution is looking better every day

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            Reply#12 - Fri May 4, 2012 11:53 PM EDT

            Oh well ...... you get that if your not a mooslum.

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            Reply#13 - Sat May 5, 2012 12:10 AM EDT

            Moslems can be so tiresome.

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            Reply#14 - Sat May 5, 2012 12:37 AM EDT

            Galations Ch. 6: "they will try to to circumcise you, to crucify you, that you die in their place, yet no prepuce and having prepuce, availeth nothing. It's the incorruption that counts." Prepuce means foreskin, foreskin means protector, protector means Father, prepuce means sheath, you remove the sheath from the sword, it means war! Welcome to War!

              Reply#15 - Sat May 5, 2012 2:26 AM EDT

              Sigmund Freud would find your thoughts very interesting, I'm sure..

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              #15.1 - Mon May 7, 2012 12:15 AM EDT
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              Russia took a big step backward when they cowered sufficiently to allow a corrupt Putin to rule Russia, yet again. There is, however, a useful side to the outcome of Russia's rigged election. Putin hates all Arabs who reside in his beloved homeland, consequently, he labels each of them as terrorists or sympathizers. Putin is a man born to eliminate Islam from Russia but even he is must show restraint during periods of calm. We can make use of Putin's obsessive hatred of Russia's Arab population in our fight against Islamic radicals. Fighting terrorism is an agenda America and Russia will have in common under Putin so long as it serves the interests of both nations. The Dagestan suicide bombers haven't simply forsaken God and all that is good by killing innocent rescuers, they just unleashed the devil incarnate upon their own people for so long as he wants to call his actions retribution.

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              Reply#16 - Sat May 5, 2012 3:25 AM EDT

              Yeah the russians won't be quite so politically correct in dealing with these muslims.

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              #16.1 - Sat May 5, 2012 11:45 AM EDT
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              Why the hell did Jimmy Carter oppose the USSR invasion of Afghanistan. The Russians knew these arseholes better than anyone at the time. I hope it will be China next becauce I really wouldn't mind seeing the Han people completely replace the Pushtans and the rest of these snakes.

              The press needs to back off this one and let the Russians handle the terrorist movement any way they see fit.

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              Reply#17 - Sat May 5, 2012 6:50 AM EDT

              Even their camels hate them.

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              Reply#18 - Sat May 5, 2012 8:47 AM EDT

              The people that hatefully comment here are nothing more than a bunch of hypocrites. Would the Jesus (pbuh as we know as a Prophet) that you people love and revere, say the hateful things against Muslims that you people say on this page. No he would not.So why don't you behave and keep crap to yourselves . There are bunch of atrocious things that christians in America have done that far exceed what those extreme muslims have ever done (not that anything they have done is islamic anyway). yet I never hear a muslim make fun of christianity or blame Prophet Jesus (pbuh) for it. The american nation has the blood of a million afghanis and iraqis on their hands but never do I hear christianity or Prophet Jesus blamed for it. They may hate the American government but never do I hear them blame christianity or Prophet Jesus (pbuh) for it. So who is the hypocrite here, would a truly religious people blame religion or blame the people responsible for the action????

                Reply#19 - Sat May 5, 2012 3:31 PM EDT

                Of those million afghanis and iragis 900,000 + were killed by islamic terrorist. Islam has it's sight's on the USA give it a few years and they will be in the same boat as Russia an then the world will hear the far left say but we were nice to them, everything they wanted we gave them. It all starts with demands like sharia laws. There is no such thing as a moderate muslim the koran demands that every muslim never bow down to an infidel.

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                #19.1 - Sat May 5, 2012 9:29 PM EDT

                Trini13 your government attacked Iraq first. Your government invaded Iraq based on a lie to steal oil. You are responsible for those deaths. No matter how you try to hide it, your government invaded a sovereign nation with no justification and lied to everyone in order to justify the invasion. How does it feel to be a part of a lying, robbing nation? Does it feel like the Founding Fathers had this in mind when they created this country?

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                #19.2 - Sun May 6, 2012 9:35 AM EDT

                i check your box so you would read this.. Please tell us where all the stolen oil is. We would like to know.

                  #19.3 - Mon May 7, 2012 2:04 PM EDT
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                  Just as a side note. When I talk about far exceed I am talking about the american government's responsibility for the deaths of over a million iraqis and afghanis. Just sayin

                    Reply#20 - Sat May 5, 2012 3:40 PM EDT

                    the russians are not stupid they know what a muslim is its just called money that talks iran gives them money and so does syria to buy weapons they know that those muslims will not attach us the usa or russia or will make there country into a parking lot there only killings themselves the veto power doesnt matter at the un we actually went and bomb yugoslavia to help the muslim albanians that were causeing terrorists acts in europe and russia and china veto the militery action we still bomb to help the muslims so why do we keep helping the muslims we bombed a christain country in 1999 i know we regret it now after 911 if you look at all the wars around the world for the past 15 years and longers its allways muslims muslims muslims first of all they would never beable to reach us with any of there weapons its just if we keep letting them into our country there gunna hit us internal like there doing to russia

                      Reply#21 - Sat May 5, 2012 5:04 PM EDT

                      Joe Russians did not let Muslims into their country. Russians took over Muslim populated territories and made those lands a part of Russia. Had they not occupied those territories they would've not had this problem today.

                        #21.1 - Sun May 6, 2012 9:32 AM EDT
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                        Here's one area where the U.S. and Russia see eye to eye.

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                        Reply#22 - Sat May 5, 2012 6:24 PM EDT

                        You guys say stupid things without even knowing the situation in Russian North Caucasus. Russia is to blame for the situation it has today. Russian soldiers killed over 60 000 civilians in Chechnya in 1995 when Chechens were not using terrorism yet. Russian soldiers were hanging Muslim children, raping women, shooting the elderly. Their actions caused Chechen Muslims to become radicalized. Ordinary, peaceful Muslims don't want violence, but actions of Russian government made them much more likely to join radical Islamic groups. And as far as the situation in Dagestan is concerned, you should really examine the crisis in that part of Russia. Extremely corrupt government installed by Putin's regime, brutal and corrupt police that practices kidnappings, extortion and torture, high unemployment - this is a recipe for extremism. Police in Dagestan tortures people in custody. I am not talking about waterboarding, I'm talking about pulling out teeth and nails, sticking batons up your butt, sticking needles under your nails, extinguishing cigarettes on your skin, using hot iron on your stomach type of torture. Putin's criminal regime breeds extremism. For some reason countries that are not involved in torturing or bombing or robbing Muslim population rarely face any terror threats. Brazil does not hang Muslim children and does not invade Muslim countries to steal their oil. Result: No terror attacks against Brazil. The logic is simple. You don't want a jihad declared on your arse? Don't attack Muslim lands. Japan does not attack Muslims - no one is chanting "death to Japan" in Muslim countries. Poland is not illegally occupying Muslim lands - no rockets fall on Polish villages. It is very simple really. Many of you Westerners simply want to plunder someone else's resources and act disgusted when you hear about atrocities committed by those you decided to rob. That what happens when you begin to think you can prey on other countries willy nilly. You rob someone - you will get extremism. You occupy someone - you will get extremism, you torture someone - you will get extremism, you install and back a corrupt government - you will get extremism. Muslim extremism is more visible today because it is them who happen to be occupied, robbed or tortured. We could observe Jewish extremism and terrorism against British authorities and civilians in Palestine right before the creation of Israel. Oppression breeds violence. And while it is true that terrorism has to be fought, the only way to really defeat it is to cut off it's root. And by that I don't mean Islam or any other religion. I mean the reasons that make people join terrorist groups. As a Muslim you are more likely to join a radical terrorist group if you children get hanged by Russian soldiers as opposed to a case when your children are not hung by Russian soldiers. Karma works. In 1995 Russians were killing Chechen children thinking they will get away with that. Today Russians see their children's blood run in their cities and act all surprised and angry. But that is what happens: "You don't want your kids to die? Don't kill other people's kids." In general - pull out of Muslim lands and let them handle themselves. If they decide to kill each other let them, if they decide to unite and build a better society more power to them. Just mind your own damn business in general.

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                        Reply#23 - Sun May 6, 2012 9:27 AM EDT

                        i checked again so I can correct you once more. There should not be any Muslim countries! people should be able to be muslim. When Muslim get authority of the people, repression of women and other normal people starts. You are blind to reality.. You stated something to the affect " when you attack one muslim all are a fended. Why is it that the billions of $'s that muslim business people make, isn't used for solving the poverty that your religion helps promote.

                          #23.1 - Mon May 7, 2012 2:16 PM EDT
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                          musafir you are right on alot of what you said im just angry that yes the usa did go into iraq with russia and chinas veto power not to! the usa makes the rules and break them they did the same when they bombed yugoslavia but if you look at the educated muslims they dont want war its the non educated ones you read every day if they wanna make there country move forward they will stop baseing everything on religion religion religion ive been to europe ive seen what albania muslims did to christians there cause they were just christain they raped tortured killed burned churches down dont let the media fool you that the albanians were getting tortured usa wanted a base in kosovo to be closer to russia and there is alot of urainum in kosovo and gold that again goes back to money money money and yes did the army retaliate against the albanians with in there borders again yes again europe gives them a better life where ever they go greece italy france germany britain yugoslavia and they cause problems and they allways refer it back to there religion

                            Reply#24 - Mon May 7, 2012 9:37 AM EDT

                            way to go Russia, support the ones who are trying to kill you. Pat yourself on the back for being anti-west.

                              Reply#25 - Mon May 7, 2012 2:24 PM EDT
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