Islamic Terrorists Rain Death Down On Police, Air Rescue Team In Chechnya, Ingushetia

The Russian republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia continue to see the bloody rage of islamic terrorists as Sunday night saw five police officers in Chechnya killed in an attack on a police convoy and the same night, in the neighboring republic of Ingushetia, three air rescue workers were killed by the terrorists. That's 8 dead in one night in very detailed and well-planned ambushes. And the Russians, as I have said before, are in for 100 times this kind of violence as it spreads from province to province. This is not unlike what we have seen as islamic terror has spread across northern Africa - the islamists start in one country or one republic or one province and then, like a cancer, it spreads.

I realize that the terror in the Caucasus region of Russia pales in physical death numbers to what islamic terror is doing in Pakistan/Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and north Africa but I have decided to showcase it here when it happens because I firmly believe that the Russians are in for a major islamic push in the next year - an islamic assault that will mirror that of the Taliban in Afghanistan. From the article at the New York Times (cough, hack, spit), here's the full story:

Gunmen Kill 5 Police Officers in Chechnya

MOSCOW — Gunmen attacked a police convoy in the Russian republic of Chechnya on Sunday evening, killing at least five officers and wounding four others, investigators said Monday.
Maryam Nalayeva, a spokeswoman for the investigative wing of the Prosecutor General’s Office in Chechnya, said the attackers used grenade launchers and automatic weapons. The attack occurred exactly one week after a suicide bomber killed at least six people outside a theater in Chechnya’s capital, Grozny, underscoring the enduring potency of an insurgency that Russia’s leaders have claimed is all but defeated.
A brutal counterinsurgency campaign by the authorities in Chechnya has steadily ground down the last vestiges of a rebel movement born of two bloody wars in the North Caucasus that left tens of thousands dead.
In a victory for Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed president, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, Chechnya’s government recently reached an agreement with Akhmed Zakayev, an exiled separatist leader, to end attacks on law enforcement in the republic.
But the continued bloodshed shows the difficulties the authorities face in reining in the remaining militants, in part because the violence has extended beyond Chechnya’s borders into nearby republics.
In neighboring Ingushetia on Sunday, militants killed three workers from the republic’s air rescue service, the prosecutor general’s office said.
In response to increasing violence in the region, Chechnya has assumed partial control over counterterrorism operations in other territories, including Ingushetia.
Meanwhile, human rights groups have accused law enforcement agencies in the region of committing worse atrocities against local populations than the rebels.
Last month, Natalya Estemirova, a researcher with the human rights group Memorial, was kidnapped in Grozny, and her body was later found dumped by the side of the road near Ingushetia’s capital. Her colleagues have accused Mr. Kadyrov of involvement in her killing, charges that the Chechen president denies.