MOSCOW. Nov 2 (Interfax) - The crisis among terrorist leaders in North Caucasus has led to haphazard terror attacks in the region, said Alexander Torshin, head of the Caucasus commission and Federation Council first deputy speaker.
"There are unmotivated terrorist activities currently occurring in the North Caucasus. Terrorists blow themselves up or attack without any economic or political demands, and the crisis among terrorist leaders has led to unmotivated terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus," Torshin said in an interview with Interfax on Tuesday.
Not only do they not have any demands, no one claims responsibility for attacks anymore, he said. "A subversive group carries out its brazen sorties without announcing political or at least economic demands, and a non-systemic insurgency in my view is much worse than a systemic one where it is clear at least which direction the wind is blowing, and here it is blowing in all directions at once," said Torshin, adding that in such a situation it is hard to understand "whether it is militants on a bloody mission or gangsters who returned from abroad with certain goals."
Terrorists stage "attacks for the sake of attacks", he said.
A few days ago the Caucasus bureau members heard a report by the Chechen Parliament speaker and Chechen parliamentarians about a militant attempt to seize the parliament, Torshin said. "One of the militants has been identified as a Chechen native, who left and lived in Europe for some time but then returned to the republic as a suicide bomber," Torshin said.
The situation around suicide bombers requires a particularly thorough analysis, he said. Two suicide terrorist attacks have been committed in the North Caucasus recently, the senator said. "The impression is that the whole militant activity is degrading into banal banditry with unclear goals. So today we are dealing with an atomized network organization in the North Caucasus where insurgents have proceeded to subversive attacks," Torshin said.