Breakaway Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev has claimed two suicide attacks carried out this month in southern Russia and Moscow and warned other attacks would follow, according to the pro-independence website kavkazcenter.com. \"Our martyrs\' fighting brigade carried out two attacks under our operation Boomerang in Yessentuki (Ingushetia) and in Moscow, aimed at forcing the Russians to make peace,\" Basayev said. He went on: \"I emphasize that we did not aim to terrorize anyone. Our goal was to wipe out the accomplices to genocide of the people of Chechnya.” The Pyatigorsk region of southwest Russia, where a bombing killed 46 people on December 5, was chosen \"because that is the site of the Belaya Lebed detention center where hundreds of Chechen hostages are held,\" the warlord said. \"They are victims of inhuman torture ... several of them have disappeared without trace.\" Turning to the December 9 attack in Moscow, Basayev said: \"The target of our martyred sister in Moscow was the Duma,\" the lower house of parliament for which elections were held two days earlier. It was possible, he said, that \"something prevented her from walking the 50 metres to her goal\" before setting off the explosives that killed six people and wounded 14 others after the legislative elections in which President Vladimir Putin\'s allies won a sweeping victory. (AFP)