Jihad in Russia: Seven Muslims killed in gun battle with police

The Russians don’t mess around.

Jihad in Russia: Seven Muselmaniacs killed in gun battle with police, six-year-old hostage freed

No doubt caused by Pamela Geller’s subway ads and some obscure youtube video no one ever heard of. Or perhaps it was the announcement of a new Charlie Hebdo comics mocking the meshugga profit of Islam: “Russian police free child hostage, kill seven militants in Dagestan,” from Reuters, December 29 (thanks to JW):

(Reuters) – Russian security forces killed seven militants and freed a 6-year-old girl taken hostage in the restive Dagestan region of Russia’s volatile North Caucasus on Saturday, a national anti-terrorism committee official told Interfax news agency.

The incident took place in an apartment building in the provincial capital of Makhachkala, according to the Interfax report. The militants broke through a wall, entered an apartment and took the girl hostage, according to the report….

The Interfax report identified the leader of the militants involved in the incident as Gadzhimurat Dolgatov and said he was among the seven killed. The report said those killed had previously served sentences for crimes including murder, extortion, theft and robbery.

During the incident, the militants opened fire and threw a grenade at the special forces personnel while trying to flee, but no security forces were hurt, Interfax reported.

Rebels who say they are fighting for an Islamic state in the strip of North Caucasus provinces often target police and security forces as well as government officials and mainstream Muslim leaders in attacks.

Rights activists say the insurgency is also driven by poverty and anger at the heavy-handed tactics of the Russian security forces.

Of course. “Rights activists” always ascribe jihad activity to the alleged wrongdoing of the non-Muslim party.

The ‘poverty’ schtick is like flogging a dead donkey, because there are billions of poor non-muslims in the world who don’t blow sh*t up. And to blame the Russian security forces for doing their job is just sick.. But Mustard friendly scribblers write that same kind of drivel about Thailand’s “deep south”, where they blame the Thai army for the jihad mass-murderers.