Istanbul Airport: Russia’s Muslim Terrorists
TNO, “Istanbul Airport: Russia’s Muslim Terrorists” 30 June 2016:
News that the three ISIS suicide bombers who killed 44 people in a gun and bomb attack at Istanbul Atatürk Airport are from Dagestan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan, has highlighted the fact that Russia has a massive—and growing—radical Islam problem.
The Turkish police have also arrested three further “Russian nationals” suspected of links with ISIS following the attack.
The Dagestan national was named as Osman Vadinov, who had entered Turkey from Syria as a “refugee” after serving with ISIS, it has been revealed.
Dagestan borders Chechnya, where Russia has waged two wars against Islamists since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan nationals were not named.
Dagestan is a federal subject of Russia, with a population of 2,910,249—of whom only 3.6 percent are ethnic Russians. It has been the scene of an ongoing Islamic insurgency since the 1990s, with the main militant Islamist organization known as Shariat Jamaat being responsible for much of the violence.
