Western media indicate Emir Dokku Abu Usman fulfills his promise

The destruction of the Baksan hydropower station by Caucasian Mujahideen caused a vivid reaction in the world.

Reuters reports from Baksan (Caucasus Emirate) under quite a large subtitle "Economic War?" on the successful operation by Caucasian Mujahideen:

"Analysts said the raid indicated rebels were fulfilling their promise to target economic infrastructure as part of their fight to create an Islamic pan-Caucasus state in south Russia.

Chechen rebel leader Dokku Umarov, the Emir of the Caucasus Emirate, has vowed to attack Russia's energy pipelines and power stations.

Umarov claimed responsibility for March martyr bombings in the Moscow metro that killed at least 40 people and his group (the Brigade of Martyrs Riyad-us-Saliheen - KC) said it was behind a disaster which killed 75 people at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam in Siberia in August last year.

"I think this is a change in tactics," said Grigory Shvedov, editor-in-chief of the Caucasian Knot www.kavkaz-uzel.ru Internet news agency. He said it would be reasonable to expect more attacks on economic targets.

The Kremlin at the time dismissed the rebels' claim to have blown up the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam", reports Reuters.

Al-Jazeera, in its turn, optimistically referring to Agence France Presse, reports that the energy supply of the Russian invaders can collapse:

"The AFP news agency reported that Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, was in constant contact with Igor Sechin, his deputy in charge of the energy sector, telling him to make sure the incident did not disrupt energy flow in the region".

Agence France-Presse in its report from Moscow says that this is not the first attack on Russian hydropower stations:

"The accident is the latest blow to RusHydro. Last August 75 people died in an accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam, a Siberian hydropower station that the state-run power group operates.

That catastrophe was claimed by an Islamist group which said it had detonated an anti-tank grenade in the plant's turbine hall".

Department of Monitoring