Det har framkommit en hel del synpunkter på huruvida videon där Dokku Umarov tar på sig 'ansvaret' för bombningarna i Moskva, möjligen inte är äkta. Utan att gå in på alla detaljer själv så låter jag Norbert Strade lägga ut texten med ett par intressant länkar.
A number of published comments are questioning the authenticity of the video in which Dokka Umarov allegedly "takes responsibility" for the Moscow metro bombings.There are good reasons to be suspicious with regard to this video.
Firstly, because "emirate" spokespersons twice denied any involvement in the attacks. The second denial came directly from Dokka Umarov's personal spokesman Shamsuddin Batukayev in an interview with the Reuters agency: "We did not carry out the attack in Moscow, and we don't know who did it." (See below)
Secondly, because some properties of the video itself make it look like a
fake:
- Umarov is seen on a background of green grass, which means the video couldn't
have been recorded in the mountains at this time of the year.
- Lip movements and sound are out of sync.
- "Umarov's" voice sounds like it has been treated by a voice converter.
- The foreground sound ("Umarov") and the background sound (birdsong)
have different acoustic properties.
All in all, the video gives the impression that a pre-recorded voice file has
been superimposed on a video of Umarov in a summery forest. Of course nothing
of this is conclusive, but it should be noted that it's no technical problem
at all today to fake somebody's voice. With Hollywood-level equipment it's
even possible to fake a video appearance if you have sufficient video material
of the person.
There's something strange with the content, too. This is not a "standard" Salafi-style statement. The latter use to follow very strict rules with regard to content and composition. The video statement has nothing of it. A number of such "untypical" statements have later been revealed as fakes.
The Georgian site "Expertclub" features an article with a long number of questions, including the technical issues mentioned above: Unfortunately it's only in Russian and I don't have time to translate it now.
Ichkeria.info has some additional questions and links: (also in Russian).
Norbert Strade
Kommentar: Jag hoppas att de som har goda kunskaper i ryska läser dessa länkar och tar sig tid att översätta texten. Gör det så lägger jag ut det på hemsidan. JL
ISTANBUL A militant separatist group led by a prominent Chechen rebel denied responsibility on Wednesday for bombings that killed 39 people in two Moscow metro stations. "We did not carry out the attack in Moscow, and we don't know who did it," Shemsettin Batukayev, a spokesman for the Caucasus Emirate organization, told Reuters by telephone in Turkey. The spokesman said the group planned attacks on economic targets inside Russia, but not against civilians. Its leader, Doku Umarov, vowed last month to spread a Caucasian insurgency to Russian cities.
The Caucasus Emirate aims to create a pan-Caucasus, sharia-based state separate from Russia. Security analysts have named it as a potential suspect in Monday's attacks, which Russian authorities have blamed on female suicide bombers with connections to the volatile North Caucasus region. No one has yet claimed responsibility for Moscow's worst bomb attack in six years.
"Of course we plan on attacking Russian economic targets, but our plans do not include attacks on people," said Batukayev, who lives in Istanbul and acts as the group's foreign representative. He said he also did not know who was behind two bombings in Dagestan that killed 12 people on Wednesday, but did not deny the possibility that his organisation was involved.
The bombings highlight problems Russia has faced trying to stem rising violence in the North Caucasus insurgency, which is likely to be at the heart of a 2012 presidential election.
The Kremlin had declared victory over Chechen separatists who fought two wars with Moscow. But violence has intensified over the past year in the neighboring republics of Dagestan and Ingushetia, where Islamist militancy overlaps with clan rivalries, criminal gangs and widespread poverty. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who gained popularity by crushing the second Chechen insurgency, said Tuesday that the culprits behind the bombings should be "scraped from the sewers."
Batukayev, speaking by telephone, said the attacks could have been the work of individuals "filled with enough hatred" to commit such a crime. "There are lots of Chechens who would happily have thrown an atom bomb into the subway. There are many people filled with enough rage out there who could have done this," he said. "But these people do not represent us," he said.
The Chechen rebellion began in the 1990s as a largely ethnic nationalist movement. Russian officials say Islamic militants from outside Russia have joined the campaign, most after the second war, giving it a fresh intensity. Batukayev said there were a few foreigners fighting with the insurgents but his organization did not have ties to foreign Islamist groups, like al-Qaida, and relied on sympathizers at home for funding.
Källa: Reuters.