An islamic terrorist with a suicide vest strapped to his body was stopped by security police in the capital city in the North Caucasus region of Russia today and decided to try and take the police team with him to paradise - the vest went off killing the suicide bomber as well as one of the police officers.
From the report at Reuters via Breitbart:
A suicide bomber killed one police officer in the capital of Russia's violence-plagued Dagestan region in the North Caucasus on Tuesday, an official said.
The bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body when police tried to stop him at an intersection to check his documents, the official said on condition of anonymity.
The blast killed one police officer and wounded another, he said. The bomber was also killed.
Interfax news agency initially reported a car bomb blast, but later cited a police official as saying the explosion was set off by a suicide bomber.
Violent incidents occur almost daily in the mainly Muslim provinces of the North Caucasus, where rebels want to establish an Islamic state.
One thing that we are noticing is that the terror attacks in Russia are coming at very regular intervals now - in 2009, the attacks were very spread out while the frequency increased in 2010 and so far in 2011, there have been islamic terror attacks each and every month so far. And as we all know, some have been major ones.
We certainly don't know what this suicide bomber's target was intended to be...more than likely it was not to take out some police at a checkpoint.
And while the Russians have been successful in killing some of the leadership of the biggest jihadi network in the region, little has been seen of an all ut effort by the Russians to purge the area of the growing number of jihadis.
Bomber kills officer in Russia's Dagestan region
(Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed one police officer in the capital of Russia's violence-plagued Dagestan region in the North Caucasus on Tuesday, an official said.
The bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body when police tried to stop him at an intersection to check his documents, the official said on condition of anonymity.
The blast killed one police officer and wounded another, he said. The bomber was also killed.
Interfax news agency initially reported a car bomb blast, but later cited a police official as saying the explosion was set off by a suicide bomber.
Violent incidents occur almost daily in the mainly Muslim provinces of the North Caucasus, where rebels want to establish an Islamic state.
Nearly a decade after federal forces drove a separatist government from power in neighboring Chechnya, Dagestan is considered the heart of the insurgency. It has seen some of the worst violence, including clashes that killed nine on Sunday.
In the nearby Kabardino-Balkaria province, four alleged Islamist militants were killed by security forces on Tuesday, Russian news agencies reported.
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