Multiple news sources indicate that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has informed President Vladimir Putin of a “Saudi link” to the Volgograd massacre.
The attacks killed more than 32 people and injured over 100 others. Most of the victims were civilians, including women and children.
There are unconfirmed reports that President Putin and his senior intelligence officer, including Mickhail Fradkov, the Director of the SVR or Russian Foreign Intelligence Service have already drawn up plans to “destroy Saudi Arabia” over its systematic sponsoring of terrorism on Russian territory.
We contacted the office of President Putin at the Kremlin for comment and officials didn’t respond to our emails and telephone calls in this matter.
The question on everyone’s mind is if Saudi complacency, aid and funding of terrorists groups around the world including the North Caucuses could be construed as an “act of war.” If so – what might Russia’s military response be.
According to Press TV:
“The group believed to be behind these attacks is known as the Caucasus Caliphate, led by Doko Umarov. Saudi Arabia is a major source of funds for the Caucasus Caliphate, which espouses the same fundamentalist
ideology as the Saudi-sponsored Takfiris operating in Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, Yemen and Iraq” (source: Russia may hit back at KSA for Volgogard attacks http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01/13/345300/will-putin-destroy-saudi-rulers/).
According to another report:
“One of the suicide bombers in the Volgograd double attack has been identified as Russian national Pavel Pechyonkin (32). He reportedly traveled to Syria last year and fought in the ranks of Saudi-backed extremists trying to topple the government of Bashar al Assad.”
“Many other Russian nationals have also been recruited by Saudi Arabia’s terror sponsors to wage regime-change war in Syria. Perhaps it was in Syria that the Volgograd bomber was recruited for that specific mission. If the Russians have acquired hard evidence of Saudi collusion in terrorism on their soil, there is firm legal ground for Russia to exact retaliation under the doctrine of self-defense” (source: Russia draws up plans to destroy Saudi Arabia over latest Terror Attacks in Volgograd http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/24509/53/).
It is unclear how the United States would respond if Russia hit Saudi Arabia militarily. U.S. officials at the Pentagon refused comment on this story.
Saudi Arabia is also suspected of sponsoring terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan which has killed hundreds if not thousands of U.S. troops engaged in Operation Iraqi Freedom and currently in Operation Enduring Freedom – the longest most expensive war in U.S. history. Many of the terrorists in these places espouse the same toxic Sunni Wahhabist ideology that Saudi Arabia endorses as a state religion in that country.
Wahhabism is a ultra conservative ultra violent sect within Sunni Islam that endorses violent jihad against “infidels”.
Already we see Russia’s military beginning to arm and fund counter terrorist movements in places like Syria, with drones, weapons and munitions, including missiles.
That Russia could obliterate the Saudi military is not questioned by military sources I talked with who refuse to go on record officially for fear of retaliation by Pentagon officials for speaking to unauthorized news sources. But if they do – how will that change the dynamics of the metastasizing cancer of radical jihadist movements who now receive support and funding through Saudi Arabia?
Could this draw the United States in a military standoff with Russia – who will not tolerate such actions to go on by Saudi Arabia – the chief sponsor of Sunni terrorism around the world.
These are all questions that still have to be answered.