Three people died and dozens were injured on Sunday when a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car outside the Dagestan's town of Buinaksk after ramming the gates of a local military unit. There would have been way more victims had it not been for the military timely spotting the suspect looking driver and preventing him from making his way inside the base's perimeter.
Early on Sunday a Zhiguli car packed with explosives and driven by a suicide bomber attempted to ram the base gates. The soldiers opened fire on the oncoming vehicle. After taking several direct shots the car ran smack into a military vehicle parked nearby and exploded.
Sunday night's attack came less than two days after two Islamist bombers blew themselves up outside a local police station in Khudzhand in Tajikistan. On Saturday a kamikaze car bomber attacked an ISAF column in Kandahar, Afghanistan, hours before another one drove his explosives packed motorbike into a group of police officers in Kunduz, also in Afghanistan.
We asked Carnegie Center Moscow analyst Alexei Malashenko to explain the terrorists' increasing use of kamikaze attacks:Well, this is exactly the tactic these people have long been trained for, and the number of those willing to die for a cause is going up all the time.
That's why I fear there will be more such attacks down the road, especially now that the religious extremists we are fighting with are fanatics and their ranks keep swelling joined by people who feel wronged by the powers that be and fall easy prey to extremist propaganda.
Fighting them is almost a mission impossible, which makes intelligence and infiltration the only means left to get rid of them, but I'm not the best expert in things like that, if you know what I mean, Malashenko said.
Meanwhile, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has ordered additional security precautions in the Southern Military District...
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