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Jihad Train

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Jihad Train

Who?

The terror attack on the Nevsky Express from Petersburg to Moscow is the same as attacking the Metroliner on the New York to Washington run, a major stab at the comity of the Russian Federation.

My information is that it was jihad-related.

A renegade military munitions expert named Kosalapov who went over to the notorious, romantic, homicidal Shamil Besayev and the Chechen diehards.  Basayev was slain in 2007 by a Russian op that intercepted him on his way to a massive martyr operation in Petersburg.

The Russians have been hunting Kosalapov since 2006.  The man-hunt is ceaseless but likely futile.

The Chechens have joined the jihad in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia.  Vladimir Putin rose swiftly by boasting he would got through an “outhouse) to get the Chechens.

Basayev’s ghost haunts Russia.