The main terrorist of Dagestan has been killed, and the terrorist attacks continue. Why? “My children only saw guns on TV.” How the father of shepherds from Dagestan killed and declared militants achieved an investigation into their deaths

In Kizlyar (Dagestan), a 22-year-old sofa terrorist shot four women leaving a church with a gun and wounded five. The militant criticized armchair Mujahideen sitting in anonymous chats and called for carrying out terrorist attacks in Russia during the 2018 World Cup. As a result, he was shot like a dog by the Russian Guard. The only sure way to restore justice is to destroy the bastard on the spot. Without trials and proceedings, so as not to endanger the lives of other people.

Just two years ago I asked myself a rhetorical question at the time: what the hell are we doing in Syria? Now the answer has appeared: we kill dogs.

For those who are indignant that the terrorists are supposedly defeated, and terrorist attacks like the one that happened in Dagestan continue, it should be reminded: you can kill the militants, but you cannot destroy a crazy idea. And while she is alive, the next mujahideen with unstable psyches will appear, who will take up arms and go out into the streets.

And the worst thing is that the sleeping cells in which they are located are located all over the world, and no one knows when their members will deign to wake up. In this sense, we must say “many thanks” to the Russian FSB, which in the vast majority of cases neutralizes militants BEFORE, and not AFTER.

That is why terrorist attacks rarely occur in large cities of the Russian Federation. Rarely in relation to Europe, of course. This is a great merit of the organs, the work of which is almost invisible to the average person. It’s stupid because if a terrorist attack occurs, everyone will write about it, and if it is prevented, it will go unnoticed by the majority, both the media and citizens.

By the way, the militant who attacked the women leaving the church left a long video in which he called on the brothers to carry out attacks in Russia, including during the 2018 World Cup. He reproached the armchair mujahideen, saying that he visited telegram chats of IS supporters, but quickly became disillusioned, as he was depressed by “empty chatter.” And so he decided to act. He never stated the reason why he attacked church parishioners, especially women.

“Meanwhile, selective killings of women, children and the elderly are extremely atypical for Islamists in general. Even to carry out an explosion in a crowded place where these categories of citizens could be harmed, militants try to enlist the support of theologians who would allow them to carry out a terrorist attack. However, in November 2016, an audio message was released by Abu Jihad al-Karachai, a well-known media personality in the circles of IS supporters, in which he called for killing the women and children of “kafirs” in order to avenge the deaths of civilians in Syria. The terrorist adheres to the same argumentation, explaining that “it is necessary to slaughter infidels by the hundreds every day” if “they kill Muslims by the thousands.”

The leader of the Caucasus Emirate, Aliaskhab Kebekov (also known as Ali Abu-Muhammad), who at one time strictly prohibited such terrorist attacks, adhered to a categorically different point of view.”

And here I would like to say that no propaganda of the Kremlin or the Ukrainian media works as smoothly and effectively as the propaganda of the Islamic State.

Action films shoot thematic videos with enviable frequency, and most of them resemble documentaries for educational channels. They are as accessible as possible, brutal and at the same time motivating, as evidenced by the emergence of numerous new supporters of the Islamic State. And although most of them stupidly live in chat rooms, arguing about weapons and other nonsense, there are a few who act as the idiot did in Dagestan.

Today's bastard took revenge for the dead Muslims in Syria, and he called his act “Operation Retribution.”

I am writing all this to the fact that it does not matter who is in Syria from ours: Wagner PMCs, mercenaries, volunteers, thugs, murderers, crazy people or anyone else. In general, it doesn’t matter how the Kremlin positions them, tries to hide them from prying eyes, or, on the contrary, calls them Heroes of Russia. The important thing is that these people do the dirty work that you won’t agree to do.

And the argument that if we had not gone into Syria, nothing would have happened is very strange. It would be many times more. And so our guys do what they do best - kill dogs. And it doesn’t matter at all that they get money for it. The motivation to be left without arms, legs or to be packed in a black bag does not warm anyone.

It is important that they destroy Evil, and there is no point in reproaching the authorities or the so-called volunteers. The infection multiplies faster than it can be controlled. And therefore I consider our presence in Syria justified.

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Fire on parishioners of St. George's Church. That day there was a festive service on the occasion of Forgiveness Sunday and the church was especially crowded. The shooter expected to break into the temple and kill those gathered, but the blessed beggar woman stopped him at the cost of his own life. The woman ran towards the terrorist and diverted his attention while parishioners locked the doors to the temple. According to Father Pavel, who led the service, this saved about 50 people, including pregnant women and children. However, casualties could not be avoided. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, a total of five people died, and four more are in the hospital.

In Dagestan Kizlyar, with a population of 49 thousand people, half are Russian. On February 18, the entire Orthodox population of the city celebrated Forgiveness Sunday. The service was ending in St. George's Church, people began to disperse, when suddenly shots were heard from the courtyard. Father Pavel told what happened that day. According to the priest, the shooter planned to carry out a massacre during the service, but did not calculate that on a holiday it would end earlier than usual.

I walked into the altar and heard clapping. Someone shouted that a man with a gun was walking around the area and shooting everyone. Usually the service ends at 5 pm, but here we finished early. He probably expected to carry out a massacre right during the prayer service...

Irina stood at the church gate. The locals call her blessed. A woman approaches passers-by and crosses them with a smile. Father Pavel knew her well.

Her name was Irina Melkomova. She sat on a bench near the temple, begging for alms. The parishioners knew her and helped her. Some will give money, some will give food.

Irina repaid the parishioners for their kindness. Seeing the scumbag firing at the townspeople, she forgot about meekness and fear. The unarmed woman screamed and rushed at the shooter and began hitting him with her bag. A shot rang out, then another, and Irina fell, hit in the chest. At this moment, Cossack Sergei Presnyakov arrived to help.

After the service, my wife, mother, and I left the church. When we approached the car, I heard pops, as if firecrackers were exploding. I put the women in the car and quickly drove it over a small hill. And he ran back. I had already seen the wounded; one of the lying women was screaming heart-rendingly and calling for help. And then I saw him. Bearded, in a cap and with a double-barreled shotgun, he walked towards the temple, shooting and shouting: “Allah Akbar, we will slaughter you, Russian pigs!” Seeing that he was again aiming at women, I began to shout: “Shoot me, you coward!” He heard, turned around, took aim, fired a couple of times, but missed. Then I saw that the side door of the temple opened and my friend Nikolai came out. I started shouting to him: “Kolya, close the doors and don’t come out!”

According to Pavel Kalikin, Irina and Sergei saved at least 50 people. While the terrorist was distracted, the priest and the parishioners locked the temple.

Thanks to them, we managed to bolt the gates and doors. He tried to enter, knocked, shouted, even shot, but the locks held. It’s scary to imagine what would have happened if he had gone inside. There were pregnant women and children among us. Some cried, some prayed. While I was closing the sanctuary doors and the back door of the temple, other ministers were calming the people.

When the shooter realized that he would not be able to get into the temple, he decided to hide before the police arrived. The attacker ran, taking cover behind the trees. Sergei did not intend to let the scumbag go unpunished. The man chased him, buying time for the security forces.

Hiding behind the trees, I shouted after him: “Are you scared? Can you only fight with old men and women?” He shot at me several more times, the buckshot flew over my head and caught the branches. Then a police UAZ finally arrived. He immediately fired at the car, wounding two employees. The riot policeman opened fire to kill.

The shooter failed to escape justice. They found a knife with an oath of allegiance to ISIS (an organization banned in the Russian Federation). As it turned out, the attacker was a 22-year-old native of the village of Rassvet, Tarumovsky district of Dagestan, Khalil Khalilov. According to operational data, he was planning to leave for Syria, and before that he had been communicating on the Internet for a long time with his terrorist cousin. It was not possible to leave, and he decided to stage a terrorist attack in Kizlyar. Before the attack, he recorded a video message in which he swore allegiance to the terrorists and stated that his attack would be “revenge for the killings of Muslims in Syria.” Khalilov called for terrorist attacks in Russia during the World Cup.

He took the hunting rifle and cartridges from a relative. I arrived in Kizlyar in a car, which I parked next to the church, and began to wait for the end of the service.

When it was all over, we left the temple and saw the dead in the courtyard. These are the permanent parishioners of our church: Nadezhda Sergeevna Terliyan, who headed the pilgrimage service, Vera Gavrilovna Morgunova worked in the district administration, in the veterans council, her sister Lyudmila Georgievna Shcherbakova is a well-known cardiologist in the city, an honored doctor of the republic, who has worked in medicine for more than 40 years, Vera Sergeevna Blinnikova was also our constant assistant; Blessed Irina also cleaned the temple.

There are four wounded in the Kizlyar hospital: policemen Soltansoygid Khizriev and Magomed Ramazanov, whose condition is moderate, as well as two parishioners - Natalya Pletukhina and Nadezhda Kushnareva. According to Pavel Kalikin, services in the church will not stop. True, now the church will be under 24-hour security. It didn’t exist before - people couldn’t even think that someone would encroach on a holy place.

We never had armed security, because there were no prerequisites for this - we did not receive threats either verbally or in the form of anonymous notes. In all of history, let alone the difficult events that took place in Kizlyar, no one has ever encroached on the temple. We had a watchman, and he came out in response to the noise, but what could he do without a weapon? Police officers were on duty at the temple only on major holidays. We never thought that this could happen. I calmly walked around the city in my vestments. And people always said hello and treated us with respect. And recently, on World Religion Day, which we celebrated together with the muftiate, I gave a lecture at a local university. And I also received only a favorable attitude.

On August 23, 2016, brothers Gasangusein and Nabi Gasangusenov from the village of Goor-Hindakh, Shamil district of Dagestan, woke up at dawn and went to a pasture located a few kilometers from the village. That summer, 19-year-old Hasanghusein hoped to earn money to help his disabled parents save money to build a new house, so he and 17-year-old schoolboy Nabi walked an hour and a half every morning along mountain paths to the slope where sheep grazed. There was no other work in their village.

In the evening, Hasanghuseyn and Nabi warned their mother that they would soon return home.

“My sons called me at night at 21:05 and said: “Mom, we are going home, cook fried fish for us and fry bread in butter. We will be home in an hour and a half.” While preparing food for my hungry children, I waited for them. But they didn't move. No matter how many times I called the phone, they still didn’t pick up,” Patimat Aliyeva told a Kavpolit correspondent. Without waiting for her sons, she went to bed.

At about six in the morning, the brothers’ bodies, abandoned in the bushes on the way to the pasture, were found by their uncle Israpil Magomedov. Hasanghuseyn and Nabi had no shoes and were lying face down; Someone covered the blood stains on the path with sand. The corpses were dressed in black jackets with hoods, and on top of them - on the backs of the dead - someone had placed machine guns. Magomedov found plastic slippers, army boots and backpacks next to the bodies. “I approached and lifted one’s jacket. I didn’t recognize him right away; there was blood all over his face. Then I looked again and recognized them,” recalled a relative of the killed shepherds. Later, relatives counted eight bullet wounds on Gasangusein’s body; there were at least 13 on the younger brother’s body. Moreover, the jackets had only two bullet holes; Magomedov is sure that the brothers were changed after death.

That same morning, the military arrived at the house where the Gasangusenovs lived, and the police arrived at the place where the corpses were found. They took the bodies for forensic examination, however, fearing that the security forces would not give the remains to the relatives and would disrupt the funeral, the village residents went into the department and took the dead. On the same day, Gasanghussein and Nabi were buried in a local cemetery. Several hundred people came to say goodbye to the young people.

Official version

According to law enforcement agencies, on August 23, operational search activities were carried out approximately two kilometers from Goor-Hindakh. At 21:45, young people fired at security forces and were killed by return fire; An unnamed Interfax source called the brothers members of the “Shamil group.”

From the report of the acting head of the Shamilsky district police department, Ibrahim Aliyev, it followed that the special operation involved employees of the republican department of the FSB, the Dagestan Center for Combating Extremism, the FSB of Russia and the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Shamilsky district. After the death of the suspects, a criminal case was opened on the grounds of encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer and illegal possession of weapons (Articles 317 and 222 of the Criminal Code).

Relatives and acquaintances of the Gasangusenovs did not believe the version of the republican authorities. Fellow villagers insisted that the murdered shepherds had nothing to do with terrorist organizations and spent all their time helping the family. “They helped not only our parents, but also us, our fellow villagers: they would chop wood for some, harvest crops for others, carry water, and they earned money on the side,” said rural school teacher Khadzhibaty Ramazanova. “Then we decided to become a shepherd and earn bread. This is how they fed the family.”

The elder of the village, Magomed Magomedov, confirmed that the brothers devoted all their time to work and were not known to have connections with militants.

“My children were accused of setting fire to a school in the village of Teletl. They've never even been there. They are also credited with the murder of a judge in the village of Asab. “As the mother of dead sons, I want to know on what basis my children were killed,” Aliyeva said. According to her, the security forces themselves dressed Hasanghussein and Nabi “in the clothes of militants” and “tarnished their bright name.”

Almost a week after the funeral of the Gasangusenovs, unrest in the village of Goor-Khindakh paid Attention the head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov. On his Instagram, he noted that relatives and fellow villagers of those killed “deny the possibility of young people participating in illegal armed groups,” and “some media question the information of law enforcement agencies.”

“This case is being investigated. I discussed this problem with the prosecutor of the republic, he keeps the investigation under control. Please be patient. Anyone who has doubts will be given an answer,” Abdulatipov assured.

Despite these promises, neither the head of the republic nor other government officials tried to understand the situation, says the father of the murdered young people, Murtazaali Gasangusenov. “He [Abdulatipov] didn’t even come to us when he came to the opening of a tuberculosis hospital in a neighboring village. He didn’t deign to drive one kilometer and offer condolences,” he says.

Investigation

On January 31, Murtazaali Gasangusenov addressed the department of the Investigative Committee for Dagestan with a demand to open a criminal case into the murder of his sons. In February, investigator Bagrat Safaraliev, who was investigating the case of an attack on security forces, promised that an investigation would be carried out into the application.

At the beginning of the year, lawyers Murad Magomedov and Shamil Magomedov began representing Gasangusenov’s interests at the initiative of the Memorial human rights center. On February 21, 2017, they tried to gain access to the case materials, but the investigator refused them - in response to the demands of the defense lawyers, he explained that Gasanghusein and Nabi do not have the status of suspects or accused in a criminal case, which means that lawyers cannot represent the interests of their parents. The lawyers appealed the refusal to familiarize themselves with the case materials, and then complained about the inaction of the investigation, which should have made a decision to initiate a case based on Gasangusenov’s application within three days. In both cases, the court sided with the family of the victims.

According to Memorial, during the preliminary investigation into the attack on police officers, 10 machine guns belonging to the Center for Countering Extremism and the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Shamilsky District were seized. Experts were unable to determine which machine guns were used to fire the cartridges found at the scene. Only one of the 18 cartridges found was fired from a machine gun left on the body of one of the shepherds. At the same time, the involvement of FSB officers in the murder of the Gasangusenov brothers was not verified, human rights activists note.

Novaya Gazeta, which followed the investigation, tried to find out why a cordon was not put up around the site of the special operation, and which law enforcement officers moved and dressed the bodies. These questions were sent to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, Abdurashid Magomedov. “We never received a response to this request. At first, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs explained to us that they had lost the request, and then, after hesitating, they directly said that “we have nothing to answer you. We don’t know,” the publication wrote.

The deputy head of the FSB department for Dagestan, Vyacheslav Nazarov, told Novaya Gazeta that “on August 23, 2016, in the vicinity of the village of Goor-Khindakh, Shamil District, SOG-5 officers did not carry out any operational search activities.” According to him, the FSB did not take part in special operations in the Shamil region that day at all.

“For a year and three months we were fed replies from the Dagestan prosecutor’s office. We wrote to everyone, and to this [acting head of the republic Vladimir] Vasiliev, who came here as president. Then something just started,” says Murtazaali Gasangusenov. According to him, just recently he received a response from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which states that on August 23, 2016, no special operations were carried out in the Shamilsky district of the republic.

On November 13, the European Court of Human Rights received a complaint from representatives of Murtazaali Gasangusenov. In it, representatives of the father of the executed shepherds complain of a violation of Articles 2 (right to life), 13 (right to an effective remedy) and 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

murder case

On November 29, it became known that the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Dagestan opened a criminal case into the murder of the Gasangusenov brothers, and their father was recognized as a victim. However, neither the lawyers nor the victim himself have yet seen the decision to initiate a case.

“Before this, such criminal cases were terminated due to the death of the suspects. But there is a ruling of the Constitutional Court, which states that if the relatives of the murdered protest against the termination of the criminal case, then the investigation cannot terminate this case. It is obliged to bring it to trial. In this form, they cannot bring the [Gasangusenovs] case to court; not a single court will find them guilty. And we wrote a statement addressed to the investigator that the father is against the termination of the criminal case,” lawyer Murad Magomedov explains the unexpected decision of the Investigative Committee.

The defender recalls that the court ordered investigators to conduct an investigation into the death of Murtazaali’s sons. Investigators were unable to ignore the court decision. “Well, the wide resonance that this case received. We tried to publicize everything as much as possible and attracted the attention of the media to this. All these factors together had an effect on the investigators,” says Magomedov.

According to another lawyer, Shamil Magomedov, at a meeting with the victim, the investigator announced the termination of the criminal case under the article of encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer, but he also did not show the corresponding resolution to the father of the murdered young people.

“Now it turns out that there are two criminal cases being conducted by one investigator. In the first criminal case, Article 317 was closed, but Article 222 (illegal arms trafficking) of the Criminal Code still remained. That is, it turns out that the investigation admits that the brothers had weapons with them,” the defense lawyer explained in an interview with the publication “New Business”. - Article 222 also appears in the second criminal case initiated into the murder of the Gasangusenov brothers, and this is already a sign that, according to the investigation, it was not law enforcement officers who shot at the brothers. The resolution now states that the shooting was carried out by unidentified persons. If the case was conducted against law enforcement officers, this article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - 222 - would not exist, since the security forces have service weapons and they own them legally. Perhaps the investigation will follow the path of looking for unknown persons (possibly some bandits) who entered into a shootout with the brothers.”

Gasangusenov emphasizes that in the time that has passed since the murder of his sons, investigators have not been able to provide any evidence of their connection with the terrorist underground: “Even though I served myself, we didn’t have any weapons at home, not even a hunting double-barreled shotgun. My children have only seen guns on TV.”

He is confident that Ibrahim Aliyev, who in 2016 served as the acting head of the Shamil district police department, bears responsibility for the deaths of Gasangusein and Nabi. He was later appointed to the position of head of the department. “He simply blamed my sons for the murder of the judge and killed two shepherds,” says Murtazaali.

“Do you know what I’m most afraid of? That an innocent person could be blamed for the death of my sons,” he says.

During a special operation in Dagestan, one of the leaders of local militants, Abdulla Saadulaev, was killed. In addition to him, two more terrorists were killed.

Three militants, including one of the terrorist leaders, were killed in the Kizlyar region of Dagestan, Interfax reports. The identities of two of those killed have already been established.

“One of them is identified as Abdulla Saadulaev (Daud). Among the militants, he played the role of the supreme Sharia judge and was the right hand of Magomed Umalatov, the so-called Amir of Dagestan. In fact, Saadulaev was the second person in the structure of the Dagestan terrorist underground. The second person killed was identified as 29-year-old Sultan Magomedov. The identity of the third is being established,” the FSB department for the republic reported.

FSB operatives received information that a group of militants was moving through the territory of the Kizlyar district in a Niva car. At 3.30 on the road near the village of Khutseevka, FSB and Ministry of Internal Affairs officers tried to stop the car for inspection. In response to the demand to stop, the people in the car opened fire.

“Three militants in the car were killed by return fire. They found two machine guns, a Makarov pistol, four grenades, ammunition and communications equipment,” the FSB said.

Exactly a week ago, another prominent terrorist, Bagautdin Kamalutdinov, “the leader of the Makhachkala sabotage and terrorist group,” was killed during an assault on a house on the outskirts of Makhachkala. “He was also the nephew of the ideologist of Dagestani extremists Bagautdin Magomedov, who has been on the federal and international wanted list since 1999,” the FSB noted.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, the murdered Kamalutdinov was involved in the murder of the deputy prosecutor of Makhachkala Maksud Maksudov, who was shot on the morning of September 11. The militants found a diagram of the area in which Maksudov lived, the location of his car was noted, as well as the routes to approach it.

Troubled Dagestan

The situation in Dagestan remains quite tense. On September 14, police tried to stop a suspicious vehicle. Those sitting in the car did not comply with the demands, after which the police officers opened fire. Three people who turned out to be terrorists were killed. And earlier that same day, a bomb exploded on the way of a bus carrying Ministry of Internal Affairs employees; by a lucky coincidence, no one was injured.

On September 11, in Makhachkala, bandits shot and killed the head of the department for supervision of correctional institutions of the Dagestan prosecutor's office. When a law enforcement officer got into his car, two unknown men shot him with pistols. As a result, he died on the spot. A criminal case has been opened.

At the same time, four members of an illegal armed formation were killed in the Tabasaran region of the republic. The bandits were discovered in the forest during a special operation, and as a result of the ensuing shootout, they were all killed.

At the same time, it was reported that a woman was detained in Makhachkala, planning to become a suicide bomber and preparing a terrorist attack in the capital of Dagestan. A pistol and ammunition for it and two grenades were confiscated from the suspect.

It was established that the woman was married three times to active members of illegal armed groups, and her last husband was the so-called Emir of Dagestan Ilgar Malachiev, who was killed during a special operation at the end of 2008. In addition, the woman’s three brothers also participated in gangs, two of them were killed by security forces.

Last weekend in Dagestan, the leader of the entire criminal underground in the republic, Magomedali Vagabov, was eliminated. Intelligence agencies reported this as a major victory. And it's true [discussion]

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Vagabov was particularly cruel, and he was already predicted to become the “second Shamil Basayev.” However, even after such a serious blow to the militants in Dagestan, explosions are heard again, and security forces and officials are being shot at. To understand what was happening, the KP correspondent went to this troubled Russian republic. UNDECLARED WAR Now we seem to have peace in the North Caucasus. But judging by the number of victims, the war continues. And it seems that the front line of the fight against Islamic fundamentalism has flowed to Dagestan. Every day - killings of policemen, militants, shootings, explosions, chases, deaths of civilians. Now suicide bombers are going to blow up Moscow from Dagestan, and not from Chechnya, as before. Why did the republic, multinational and tolerant by Caucasian standards, change so dramatically, turn upside down and now seem to Russians to be a continuous source of aggression? Makhachkala breathes heat, which is only slightly cooled in the late afternoon by the wind from the Caspian Sea. The cafes on the embankment are smoking with barbecue, and the music from cars taking off with screeching tires hits your ears. An ordinary evening in a southern city... But it is at this time, with the onset of dusk, that terrorist attacks usually occur here.

The chronology of explosions and attacks in Dagestan is striking in its stability. Both ordinary law enforcement officers and high-ranking policemen are killed by militants' bullets. The bandits' principle is this: if you see a man in uniform, kill him. It doesn’t matter if it’s your neighbor or just a policeman. The response of the security forces is appropriate: the slightest suspicion of involvement in illegal armed groups (illegal armed groups) - fire to kill. The statistics of undeclared war are clearly not in favor of law enforcement agencies. Count for yourself: this year, 82 law enforcement officers died and 131 were wounded. On the other side of the barricades are 60 killed plus 66 detained members of illegal armed groups and their accomplices. "Unplanned losses" - 11 civilians killed and 57 wounded. They were simply “unlucky” to be in the fire zone. WHAT COLOR WILL THE REVOLUTION IN THE MOUNTAINS BE? The majority of the population of Dagestan is, if not below the poverty line (here family ties do not allow one to descend to the level of poverty), then very close to it. Against the backdrop of corruption among officials at all levels, with their conspicuous wealth and impunity, the bulk of the republic’s population looks clearly disadvantaged. And... offended. If you are not in the clan, you will have nothing: no horse, no saber, no cloak. There are not enough influential relatives who can buy or pass on a position by inheritance. Such injustice, multiplied by Caucasian nepotism and the hot-tempered characters of the southerners, with whom it is shameful to be poor and simply unlucky in life, gives rise to a fertile environment from which Wahhabism is nourished. “Our government seems to live on its own, the law enforcement agencies are on their own, and the people are somewhere on the sidelines,” Dagestani journalists bring the matter up to date. - Those who were able to get involved in more or less serious business are forced to pay either officials or militants. Who will agree? And all the latest attempts, kidnappings and murders of businessmen or government officials are directly related to protection protection. The militants are in the lead here - they imposed tribute on the owners of the gambling business, restaurants, and cognac and vodka magnates.

Militants are paid by many. At the local FSB Directorate they showed me a recording of a video message from a certain Emir of Dagestan to one of the owners of vodka shops. “The Man from the Forest,” dressing his words in religious formulations, simply demanded compensation in favor of the Mujahideen. And not a word about the Muslim religion’s rejection of alcohol! Drive both vodka and loot! Officials and businessmen are openly afraid of the militants and are forced to pay tribute to them. So the recent abduction in the Untsukulsky district of Dagestan of the chief engineer of the Sulak Hydroenergy Cascade OJSC, Vladimir Redkin, was immediately linked by security forces to attempts to receive payoffs from the militants. It would seem - a hydraulic engineer, what to take from him? But no, there is government funding, there is money there - go ahead and pay! On the other hand, in Dagestan, the Wahhabis managed to create an image for themselves as fighters for justice. They say that if in the republic, according to Russian laws, the result is complete embezzlement, a decline in morals and the arbitrariness of the security forces, then we will establish Sharia and live according to fair Islamic laws. The militants make good PR out of their actions. Either they will kill a corrupt judge, or they will shoot a police post in Buinaksk, ten meters from which there is a brothel, and at the same time they will kill the priestesses of love in the sauna. And they will certainly leave an autograph on the wall, in the manner of a “black cat,” only with the obligatory mention of the word “jihad.” Against this background of the cultivation of Wahhabism in Dagestan, traditional Islam is losing its influence, and moderate and loyal mullahs are no longer enjoying support, primarily among young people. The militants' bet is precisely on young people, who, in addition to age-related protest (it exists in all corners of Russia), do not find use for themselves in ordinary creative life. There are no jobs, opportunities for study or sports in the republic are also limited. Against this background, the Wahhabis very cleverly turn their ideology into a fashionable protest movement.

HOW DO YOU GO INTO MILITARY FIGHTERS? The militants are somewhere out there, in the mountains, living in forest caches and attacking convoys and police vehicles. Those in the mountains and forest are “defectors”; there is no way back for them. They forever linked themselves with jihad - a holy war against infidels. Among the infidels are not only Russians or non-Muslims, but all other residents of the republic who do not profess Wahhabi beliefs. Killing a kaafir or mushrik (who has fallen out of religion) is the sacred duty of a mujahid. If you don’t want to, your “comrades in arms” will force you to. It also has its own reporting statistics to its “top” - it is necessary to give “indicators” to the Arab owners, to carry out the plan for terrorist attacks. There are not so many militants in the mountains. The number is not in the thousands, but rather in the hundreds - the number of active troops does not exceed five hundred "bayonets". Nevertheless, they manage to keep not only the police at bay, but also most of the population. And some local residents even receive support despite this! Why? The militants try not to take anything from the residents of the villages near which they are based. This is the Caucasus, where any offense can lead to retaliation. How then do militants who do not engage in any productive activities other than murder and terrorist attacks survive? Like any partisan structure, the Mujahideen are fed from among sympathizers, those who are in a legal position, but have already been hooked by the militants. “The militants have a scheme to attract them to their side,” says an employee of the FSB Directorate for the Republic of Dagestan named Denis. - Often, potential Mujahideen candidates do not even suspect that they are being recruited to participate in a gangster structure. As a rule, it all starts with the religious indoctrination of a militant candidate. As if by chance, one of the friends (already hooked by the Wahhabis) asks an innocent question: “Do you pray? No? We must pray. Let's go to the mosque together." And the newcomer is taken to a Wahhabi mosque. There are several of these in Makhachkala, and they are quite official; their addresses are known to everyone, including intelligence officers. Parishioners of these mosques are placed on a special register. The newly minted Wahhabi does not yet understand that he has already stepped foot into the gangster underground. But we can assume that he has already been drawn in. Then comes an innocent request - you need help transporting the food “somewhere in the mountains.” The person already realizes that he is involved in some kind of illegal structure and an aura of secrecy has shrouded his existence. It is no longer possible to refuse, especially since the action itself does not bear responsibility - just think, I went to the market, then unloaded the packages in the mountains. I didn't even see anyone. But the marigold is already stuck... What follows are requests of a more “delicate” nature: to transport weapons or militants to the site of the terrorist attack. And this is a direct involvement in the gang underground, for which you can seriously pay. Now the banal arrival of a local police officer to check documents can provoke panic: “I’ve been identified!” There is only one way left - into the forest.

THE SHORT LIFE OF A TERRORIST“Those who go into the forest essentially become suicide bombers,” say FSB operatives. - They are given six months to live, others - a little more. The militants are actually caught, and more often they are simply eliminated in large numbers. There are plenty of reports of their deaths. So it turns out that the age of the action movie is short-lived. But new ones take the place of the dead... Long peaks have already appeared in some Dagestan cemeteries - a sign that an unavenged person is buried here. And there are more and more such poles topped with the Muslim crescent. Previously, many similar peaks “decorated” Chechen cemeteries, but now the tradition has spread to Dagestan. In the North Caucasus, all militant groups are divided into wilayats, which are headed by military amirs. As a rule, the boundaries of responsibility here are divided on a territorial basis - Dagestan vilayat, Kabardino-Balkarian, Chechen. In some cases, borders overlap, but each of their amirs clearly controls the territory under their jurisdiction. The last emir of Dagestan was Magomedali Vagabov, who was destroyed a few days ago. The very path of his rise to power in the world of illegal armed groups is worthy of description. He received this position from Arab patrons after numerous intrigues and murders, not only of enemies, but also of fellow believers. It was a kind of shortcut to the board - access to funding. And this is Arab leverage over the North Caucasus. In fact, they are trying to turn the Russian region into an ideological colony of Saudi Arabia. Having received combat training in Pakistan, Vagabov tried very hard to curry favor in Dagestan with the Arabs who finance terrorist acts - how can one fight without money? When Vagabov became the Amir of Dagestan, his ambitions resulted in a new wave of terrorist attacks. The loudest was in the Moscow metro on March 29 this year. It was he who sent the Shahidok there. UNFAILOUS “SATHID WOMEN” - Do you know what militants are most often caught using? They're burning on the woman! - say the FSB agents. - The guys are young, hot, have an excess of hormones in their bodies, but they have no way out. There is tension with women in the forest, so they come out to their fighting friends, and here we catch them. According to operatives, about 70% of all militants are destroyed in this way. The special services already have their own proven schemes and methods in this regard - in general, “Cherche la femme”! What about Muslim customs about honor and loyalty? Why do mountain girls have such a passion for adultery? - These are the same crazy young ladies as their gentlemen, who fell under the influence of the Wahhabis. For the most part, these are girls from dysfunctional families who began promiscuous sex life early, and, as they say, there is nothing for them in terms of creating a normal family. So they marry militants - without any wedding or other rituals, including the blessing of their parents - revealing the social portrait of the “suicide bomber” in the special services. However, among them there are also those who run away from home out of great love - she fell head over heels in love with a guy, but he turned out to be a mujahid. Young people enter into a so-called amanat marriage - a forbidden marriage. Some even go to the mountains with their husbands. And then the scenario is practically the same - the spouse is killed, and the girl is inherited by another militant. Then to the next one, and so on... As a rule, suicide bombers cluster together. They live in a semi-legal situation. A legend for parents - she went to study in Makhachkala (nothing new, prostitutes from the Russian outback also lie to their relatives that they got a job in Moscow). In conversations among themselves, the girls vied with each other to swear their readiness to sacrifice themselves in order to avenge their murdered militant husband. And then they are taken at their word and begin to be processed in full. This was the case with six girls detained in July in Makhachkala, who were being prepared for terrorist attacks in Moscow. Among them, the most notable are the sisters Zaira and Zalina Akayev. Despite their youth, they are already widows. They were connected with the militants by the elder Zulfiya, also the widow of a militant; at the time of the arrest she was with her parents. Weapons, suicide belts, light-colored wigs, lenses that change eye color, and farewell notes - as the police say, the fact of preparation for a terrorist attack is obvious. “This was a clearly organized group that was preparing for self-explosions, there is no doubt about it,” the operatives say. - The “Black Widows” were supposed to leave for Moscow soon, but the operation to detain them was premature... Having received the information, the opera began developing them - appearances, passwords, meetings. But the command “fas” came prematurely from the authorities. Six were detained, but some of the “black widows” did not fall into the network, and are now being actively searched for. “The results were given, but the effectiveness was not as good as it could have been,” the operatives complain. WHAT IS OUR LIFE? STRUGGLE! The request to meet the militant was absurd at first glance. But access to the gangster underground turned out to be surprisingly simple. Through a Dagestani friend, I was introduced to a driver, who, in turn, introduced me to his friend, and he led me to a militant. I’ll note right away that the authenticity of his involvement in an illegal armed group raised doubts in me (the intelligence services would have accepted it), but I had to believe it. The scene is one of the outlying districts of Makhachkala. The militant is a young guy of about twenty, inconspicuous appearance, a beard and a dark, loose-fitting shirt. You can meet someone like this on the street and not suspect anything - there are a lot of guys like him around. It was just the eyes that struck me - a confident look, with a bit of superiority. He introduced himself as Magomed - Maga (a very common name here). “We are fighting for pure Islam,” Maga immediately outlined the “party line.” - And we want to create a genuine Sharia state. - Why exactly fight, since religion does not promote violence? - We have enemies who prevent us from achieving our goal, and in the fight against them none of us will spare our lives. The propagandist and agitator from Magi is so-so, a C minus, mostly spouting quotes heard from militant ideologists. But there is no doubt about the sincerity of his words - small, but already aggressive, ready to bite in with his teeth. - We are strong, everyone here is afraid of us. Every true Muslim is obliged to help the Mujahideen,” Magomed says categorically. It seemed that the boy was playing war and considered himself a member of a secret society that kept the entire neighborhood in fear. This happens among those young men who cannot realize their ambitions in studies, sports or other achievements and end up in “bad company”, where the support of “serious boys” is guaranteed. I remembered the words of local intelligence officers on this matter. “For the most part, the structure of illegal armed groups includes precisely those who have dropped out of the ordinary life of modern youth. Without special physical characteristics, without academic success, sometimes deprived of the attention of their peers. These are people with some kind of internal complexes. The gang underground gives them a chance to feel their status by belonging to a rebellious and armed structure. They become the “chosen ones,” the arbiters of other people’s destinies. It’s addictive and captivating, giving you the opportunity to feel your importance. And the religious background here often remains in second place,” intelligence analysts say. - Maga, have you already killed people? - I ask the militant a provocative question directly. - No, I haven’t killed yet, but I can do it in the name of Allah at any moment. And he will do it. He has already aroused himself to the point of a killer and is ready for such a “feat” - to fire a burst at anyone whom the Emir points out. And then he will have no more than six months to live... GOODBYE, DAGESTAN?...The main question is: what should we do with all this now? After all, the dynamics of events in Dagestan are not only alarming - they promise to result in global extremist actions that could eclipse even the two previous Chechen wars! It's like a tsunami - some will rise to avenge their killed militant relatives, others - for the killed policemen. People in uniform also have relatives. Here, civil war is not far away - and it can easily spill out beyond the borders of Dagestan. Rhetorical question: what to do? Most likely, you need to seize the initiative. To snatch the flag of the struggle for justice and purity of religion from the hands of the militants with whom they hide behind. Finally begin a real fight against theft, nepotism, and debauchery. The authorities themselves - officials and security forces, and at the same time the mullahs - need to cleanse themselves. To boost the economy, and not to steal tranches from the federal center. If you do not restore order in your ranks, it will be impossible to mow down the ranks of the bandit underground using force alone. So I wrote these lines and thought: who am I kidding now? Myself? Who will believe that officials will stop taking bribes and kickbacks right from next Monday? And the police - to protect businessmen? But, it seems, there is no other way out either!.. If Dagestan collapses into the abyss of a terrorist war, shout “Guard!” It will be late.

MEANWHILE

Yamadayev reconciled with Kadyrov Isa Yamadayev finally admitted that his brother Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadayev, on whom an assassination attempt was made a year ago in the Emirates, is still dead. It became known that Isa Yamadayev is one of the surviving Yamadayev brothers who laid claim to power in Chechnya - went to peace with Ramzan Kadyrov. Until recently, these two clans were ardent antagonists and accused each other of all sorts of sins. The Yamadayevs openly suspected the current president of Chechnya of involvement in the murders of their relatives. Particularly incomprehensible was the story of the death of Sulim Yamadayev, lieutenant colonel of the Russian army, Hero of Russia, ex-commander of the GRU Vostok battalion, who was assassinated in the Emirates in 2009. Since then, Isa Yamadayev has claimed that his brother is alive and he maintains telephone contact with him. And now Isa has officially admitted that Sulim is dead and buried outside of Chechnya, most likely in the same Emirates. It seemed that the “Chechen-style vendetta” would continue endlessly, but last week a fateful meeting took place - Isa Yamadayev, greatly weakened by losses in his clan, and Ramzan Kadyrov. It looked like a reconciliation agreement. After such a “confession,” this is how experts assess Yamadayev’s meeting with Kadyrov. Isa Yamadayev, who lives in one of the cities in the Moscow region, is unlikely to join the Chechen political elite, but will certainly receive carte blanche for security.