In a January 25, 2014 communiqué titled "Russia Has Been Warned", the jihadi website VDagestan.com, the mouthpiece for the Dagestan branch of the Caucasus Emirate, refers to the December 2013 bombings in Volvagrad and threatens more attacks against Russia unless it withdraws from the Caucasus. The communiqué echoed messages that appeared in a fatwa issued recently by Salafi-jihadi cleric 'Abd Al-Rahman Al-Maqdisi, in which he legitimized the Volgograd bombings and suicide bombings in general, and stressed that the Russians had to be punished for their government's policies in the Caucasus.
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