Increased Activity
Following the death of Astemirov in March 2010, the leadership was assumed by far more aggressive young commanders like the Baksan area-based Emir Abdullah (Asker Dzhappuyev) and the south-west sector commander Emir Zakaria (Ratmir Shameyev), who then apparently regrouped Yarmuk and changed its tactics. The group went on to perpetrate two high-profile bombings: a blast at the Nalchik hippodrome that injured two ministers during May Day festivities and a sabotage attack in the Baksan hydroelectric power station that inflicted significant economic damage in July. The group was also involved in a large number of near-daily attacks directed against members of security forces. According the Russian federal Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev in November 2010, "the highest level of the terrorist threat in the North Caucasus is in the republics of Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria", as the KBR saw six times more gun attacks and nearly five times more explosions in 2010 as in in the same period of 2009. The Yarmuk fighters began to simultaneously act as a Taliban-style morality police, targeting alleged "dens of vice".
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