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May 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda More than 13 people have been killed and up to 120 injured as two powerful explosions hit Makhachkala, the capital city of Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, security services report. The combined force of the blasts can exceed 100 kg of TNT.
The first bomb was detonated by a suicide car bomber not far from a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Makhachkala, when the car was stopped for a regular check.
The second bomb, which caused most of the casualties, struck when rescuers arrived at the scene 20 minutes later. The blast caused a fire but it was soon extinguished.
The combined force of the blasts was equivalent to 80 kg of TNT, according to officials from the National Antiterrorism Committee, with 30 and 50 kg of TNT respectively. Reports from the investigative committee however suggest that the first blast was equal to 50 kg of TNT and the second one was even more powerful. Its force is still being estimated.
Sources in the law enforcement agency of Dagestan say the death toll has exceeded 13. One person is believed missing. There have been conflicting reports on the numbers of casualties and injured. So far, over 120 people are believed to have been injured by the blasts. Among those taken to hospital, 47 people are in a critical condition and two are extremely critical.
“Thirteen people have been killed, including three emergency service workers, seven police officers and one military officer,” Russia’s Interfax news agency quotes a law enforcement officer as saying.
The officer also said that male and female body fragments have been found at the scene.
“Apart from those killed by the twin car blasts, male and female body fragments have been found at the scene, which can mean they might belong to suicide terrorists,” he said.
The identification of the body fragments is underway.
The Republic’s interior minister presumed that Makhachkala gang militants were responsible for the attack.
“A military gang operating in the republic could be involved in the twin blasts,” Abdurashid Magomedov told journalists on Friday. “We are working on specific [suspects].”
International terrorist cells behind the attack?
Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan is notorious for its numerous militant attacks both on the police and the civilian population. Russian officials link these attacks to the international terrorist cells such as Al-Qaeda.
Two years ago the US acknowledged Russia’s top terrorist fugitive Doku Umarov – who claimed responsibility for many attacks in the Caucasus region as being part of a radical jihadist movement – and designated that he poses a threat not only to Russia but to the United States as well. He is now on the US “most wanted” list.
Doctor Walid Phares, a counter-terrorism adviser to the US Congress, explained to RT that more information is coming both to Congress and the presidential administration about the connections between those jihadist networks in Russia’s republics of Chechnya and Dagestan on the one hand, and those present in Northern Africa and the Middle East.
“Because of evidence we are getting from captured individuals in Afghanistan, for example, other places, whereby they do admit that they have worked with the Caucasus-base jihadists on the one hand,” he told RT. “And of course we see on the website that this information is available. For all these reasons together the US decided to put this group on the international most wanted list.”
Firefighters at the twin blast scene in Makhachkala
A dead body at the twin blast scene in Makhachkala (RIA Novosti / Bashir Aliyev)
Burnt car at the twin blast scene in Makhachkala (RIA Novosti / Bashir Aliyev)
The twin blast scene in Makhachkala (RIA Novosti / Bashir Aliyev)
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