Suspected al Qaeda emissary killed in Chechnya

Xinhuanet ^ | Nov. 18, 2005 | Xinhuanet

[FairOpinion]

MOSCOW, Nov. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian secret services in Chechnya have killed a senior al Qaeda representative in Chechnya, head of the regional headquarters in control of the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus said on Friday.

The militant, identified as Jaber, was killed in a special operation launched by an army elite reconnaissance unit near the village of Avtury, Shali district, on Nov. 11. He was reportedly al Qaeda's mastermind and financier of recent high-profile terrorist attack in the republic, head of the regional headquarters Col-Gen Arkady Yedelev told Itar-Tass news agency.

Jaber organized terrorist attacks in Znamenskoye and Grozny, and is behind the attack on the village of Roshni-Chu in August, according to the Russian media.

The general said illegal armed group received a large financialblow recently, which is directly linked with the gangs' attempt to unsettle the situation in the republic ahead of the parliamentary election scheduled on Nov. 27.

Jaber has been heading a group of foreign mercenaries since 2001, which smuggled gunmen from Georgia's Pankisi Gorge into Russia. He was also the successor to Abu al Walid, an Arab mercenary who in turn, took over from Khattab.

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[FairOpinion]

More evidence, that Al Qaeda is working with the chechen terrorists and it's a good thing that Russia is killing them.

[FairOpinion]

PING

[pcottraux]

Serves him right.

[yldstrk]

Hope he has a good time in hell..

[Dick Vomer]

aw man...the hits just keep on coming... I love it.

[FairOpinion]

...and there is more, that I have just found: they not only killed the leader, but a whole bunch of terrorists he was leading!

URGENT: Terrorists led by Al-Qaeda representative in N. Caucasus killed
16:39 | 18/ 11/ 2005




KHANKALA, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service eliminated a group of international terrorists led in Chechnya by Jofer, a Saudi mercenary who was an Al Qaeda representative in the North Caucasus, the operative HQ of the United Group of Forces said Friday.

Jofer had led foreign mercenaries who commanded illegal militant units from Georgia's Pankisi Gorge since 2001.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20051118/42139324.html

[Victor]

Go, Rooskies....get some

[yldstrk]

I guess Russia is in on the war on terror...

[GarySpFc]

Russia has been working with the US in the GWOT for some time, and winning. It's not being fought in the MSM, and that is why you only hear 5% of what is happening.

[GarySpFc]

Ping

[GarySpFc]

World > Europe from the September 07, 2004 edition RUINS: Victims' friends and relatives toured the partially destroyed School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia, following the battle there between Chechen hostage-takers and Russian forces. SCOTT PETERSON/GETTY IMAGES Al Qaeda among the Chechens As Russians bury their dead, officials look at terrorist links to Chechen rebels. By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor BESLAN, RUSSIA – Among the wilted flowers brought to celebrate the first day of classes in the now blackened wreckage of Beslan's School No. 1 are the abundant signs of a sophisticated terror operation. That evidence is sparking a re-examination of the long-standing Chechen links to Al Qaeda.
"They were so well trained - the highest level," says Oleg Tedeyev, deputy chief of a local police unit, who was involved in the battle Friday that freed more than 700 people, and officially left 338 dead, half of them children.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0907/p01s02-woeu.html

THE AL QAEDA CONNECTION
In December 1994, Jokar Dudayev, a former Soviet air-force general, began fighting for an independent Chechnya. Since then, Moscow has seen a series of bombings which are thought to have been carried out by Chechen Islamists.

That al Qaeda has trained these Chechens — and perhaps even planned some of their operations — is clear. In fact, the Chechen conflict has long been seen by bin Laden as but one front in the global jihad which began on February 14, 1989, when the last Soviet soldiers Afghanistan.

After the Soviets left Afghanistan, a multinational force of mujahadin slithered into Chechnya. The key operative was Jordanian Omar Ibn al Khattab, who had trained in bin Laden's camps. Bin Laden and Khattab enjoyed an unusually close theological affinity, and exchanged personnel and resources.

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-riebling102402.asp

Al-Qaeda suspect tells of Chechnya link

Some of the 11 September hijackers wanted to fight against Russia in Chechnya, their alleged accomplice has told a German court.
Mounir al-Motassadek told his trial in Hamburg that at least four of the men had gone to Afghanistan to be trained for the war in Chechnya.

Atta, al Shehi, bin al Shaibah and Jarrah wanted to go to Chechnya because of the massacre that the Russians were carrying out

Mounir al-Motassadek
The Russians were seen by the men as committing war crimes in Chechnya, Mr Motassadek said, and they wanted to go there to help combat them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2372971.stm

European terror suspects got al Qaeda training, sources say

Among the common links between some of the men who were arrested: They trained at a camp in the Caucasus region, particularly the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia and in nearby Chechnya, according to investigators.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/06/sprj.irq.alqaeda.links/

Are there links between Chechen groups and al-Qaeda? Yes. Experts say there are reportedly several ties, including those between

The late Chechen warlord Khattab, a Jordanian-born fighter who was killed in Chechnya in April 2002, and Osama bin Laden. Khattab apparently first met bin Laden while both men were fighting the 1979-89 Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The U.S. ambassador to Russia, Alexander Vershbow, said shortly after September 11, “We have long recognized that Osama bin Laden and other international networks have been fueling the flames in Chechnya, including the involvement of foreign commanders like Khattab.”
Individuals connected to the September 11 attacks and Chechnya. A Moroccan man charged with abetting the hijackers told a German court in October 2002 that the plot’s ringleader, Muhammad Atta, initially planned to join the fight in Chechnya.
Zacarias Moussaoui, whom U.S. authorities have charged with being the “20th hijacker” in the September 11 attacks, was reported by the Wall Street Journal to be formerly “a recruiter for al-Qaeda-backed rebels in Chechnya.”
Chechen militants reportedly fought alongside al-Qaeda and Taliban forces against the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in late 2001. The Taliban regime in Afghanistan was one of the only governments to recognize Chechen independence.

http://cfrterrorism.org/groups/chechens.html

[FairOpinion]

Thanks for all that info and links.

the Chechen terrorists are terrorists, not "freedom fighters".

[GarySpFc]

Here is more information about these freedom fighters.

http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/647

Two Chechens arrested as accomplices in Van Gogh murder part of international terrorist network

Van Gogh, a critic of Islam, was shot and nearly decapitated in an Amsterdam street last November.

A militant Islamist diatribe was pinned to his chest with a knife, threatening the scriptwriter who had written his last film, which had denounced violence against women in Islamic society.

http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/647

[GarySpFc]

More slightly lost Chechen Freedom Fighters.

Chechens Join Iraqi Guerrillas; Syrian “Black Flags” Sabotage Iraqi Oil

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=542

The Chechen fighters arriving in Baghdad are not drawn from the ranks of foreign Muslims fighting the Russians in Chechnya but ethnic Chechens. They were assigned to duty in the Sunni Triangle of central Iraq by the Chechen rebels’ Saudi al Qaeda commander, Abu al-Walid, also known as Emir al-Walid, who succeeded al Khatib who died in a Russian ambush two years ago.

[jb6]

This is like what, the third Al Quida big wig to go to Chechnya and get wacked. Hell, they're better off staying in southern Pakistan where they're protected.

[REactor]

There was an American in Taliban too, from SanFrancisco if I remember correctly or some other place in California. Are Californians THAT evil??? Oh may God! It's the end of the world.

[GarySpFc]

Yes, but that American was not a leader in al-Qaeda. I know this is beyond your ability to grasp, but what would an al-Qaeda leader be doing in Chechnya?

[GarySpFc]

...and there is more, that I have just found: they not only killed the leader, but a whole bunch of terrorists he was leading!

What was an al-Qaeda leader doing leading a group of terrorists in Chechnya? Do you think there just might possibly be a link between the two groups?

[SauronOfMordor]

The general said illegal armed group received a large financial blow recently, which is directly linked with the gangs' attempt to unsettle the situation in the republic ahead of the parliamentary election scheduled on Nov. 27.

Jaber has been heading a group of foreign mercenaries since 2001, which smuggled gunmen from Georgia's Pankisi Gorge into Russia. He was also the successor to Abu al Walid, an Arab mercenary who in turn, took over from Khattab.

In the conventional military sphere it's long been said. "Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics"

In the terrorist sphere, this can be updated to "professionals study finances"

Osama was just Al Q's operations manager. The Board of Directors is the Golden Chain (see also here), a group of untouchable super-wealthy Arab men who may include members of the Saudi royal family