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August 31, 2007
Russia: Devout Muslims Suspected in Massacre of Russian Teacher's Family
On August 30, a Russian family was massacred in Karabulak, a small town in the predominantly Muslim republic of Ingushetia, in what officials believe is a hate crime committed by devout Muslims whose main goal is to destabilize the North Caucasus region and establish an Islamic Caliphate.
The assailants broke into the house at about 11:30pm and shot Anatoli Draganchuk, and his two sons, Denis, 20, and Mikhail, 24. His wife, Vera, a teacher of Russian, managed to hide in the house and then escape. The whereabouts of the family's daughter is unknown.
Police officials, however, think the immediate cause of the grisly crime was in revenge for the killing in Nazran earlier in the day of suspected Ingush terrorist, 18 year old Islam Garakoev. The FSB said Garakoev was killed when he resisted detention by officers, and that explosives were found on him, as well as a loaded handgun. The FSB said Garakoev was a surviving member of a Muslim terror cell headed by Adam Nalgiev, which was responsible for many terror attacks against law-enforcement agencies in Ingushetia, but which for the most part was destroyed in June 2006.
Ingushetia is part of Russia's North Caucasus region, and it borders Chechnya and North Ossetia. Most of the terrorists who carried out the Beslan school massacre in September 2004 were devout Ingush Muslims.
In contrast to official reports, the Ingush site, www.ingushetiya.ru claims that Islam Garakoev was 17 years old, and that he was merely standing on the roadside near a makeshift marketplace helping his mother when Russian troops pulled up and shot him for no reason.
Yesterday's family massacre, however, bears close resemblance to other recent crimes committed by devout Muslims in Ingushetia. On the night of July 16 in the village of Orzhonikidzevskaya, a Russian teacher, Ludmila Terekhina, and her sons, 19 and 24 years old, were executed at point blank range.
The tragedy didn't end there, however. During the family's burial, a bomb went off injuring 11 people.
These Muslim terror attacks are just few of the many in the past six months. The situation in Ingushetia has deteriorated rapidly since January 1, and at the very end of July, Moscow sent 2,500 Interior Ministry troops to Ingushetia.
The Muslims targeting Russian teachers and their families is not coincidental, but part of their wider plans to ethnically cleanse the region of non-Muslims.
During a visit to Ingushetia last summer, Western Resistance witnessed the full virulency of the Islamic insurgency. Main roads often had to be mine-sweeped by Russian troops, and on one occasion we saw how devout Muslims had blown a mine in the road just an hour before we passed by.
The local population also seemed very aggressive and militant, and their sympathies with the violence of Islam and anti-Russian attitude were quite clear.
Posted by Jean de la Valette at August 31, 2007 7:32 AM
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