Doku K. Umarov, a Chechen rebel leader, posted a video via the Internet hours after another bombing in Dagestan, which is part of the disputed southern Caucasus region. Umarov said that the attacks in Moscow on Monday were an act of revenge against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The rebel leader claims that Putin’s anti-terror raid this February (in a wooded area near the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia.) killed both civilians and militants.
“You Russians hear about the war on television and the radio, and this is why you are quiet, this is why you don’t react to the atrocities committed by the bandit group that is led by Putin,” Mr. Umarov said on the video, which was dated March 29, the day of the Moscow bombings. “I promise you the war will come to your streets, and you will feel it in your own lives and on your own skin.”
“They are sewage scum who will be destroyed”, was Putin’s response to the rebel leader’s video. However, President Medvedev talked about how poverty and unemployment in the Caucasus region is at the root of the problem. He said that resolving those problems was “even harder than looking for and destroying terrorists,” but that he planned to continue pursuing both aims. In their statements you can see two ideologies about how to handle the border near Chechnya. One of force and one of tolerance, but it is possible with the attacks in Moscow that tolerance will no longer be a possibility.
“You Russians hear about the war on television and the radio, and this is why you are quiet, this is why you don’t react to the atrocities committed by the bandit group that is led by Putin,” Mr. Umarov said on the video, which was dated March 29, the day of the Moscow bombings. “I promise you the war will come to your streets, and you will feel it in your own lives and on your own skin.”
“They are sewage scum who will be destroyed”, was Putin’s response to the rebel leader’s video. However, President Medvedev talked about how poverty and unemployment in the Caucasus region is at the root of the problem. He said that resolving those problems was “even harder than looking for and destroying terrorists,” but that he planned to continue pursuing both aims. In their statements you can see two ideologies about how to handle the border near Chechnya. One of force and one of tolerance, but it is possible with the attacks in Moscow that tolerance will no longer be a possibility. 
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