Posted on 09/24/2009 2:03:15 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
MOSCOW, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The Kremlin-backed chief of Russia's turbulent Chechnya region said his forces were fighting U.S. and British intelligence services who want to split the country apart, according to an interview published on Thursday.
Former rebel-turned-Moscow-ally Ramzan Kadyrov said in comments to Zavtra newspaper reprinted on his official website that he had seen the U.S. driving licence of a CIA operative who was killed in a security operation he led. ...
"We're fighting in the mountains with the American and English intelligence agencies. They are fighting not against Kadyrov, not against traditional Islam, they are fighting against the sovereign Russian state," he said.
The West sought to attack both Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the country as a whole by targeting the country's weakest regions, Kadyrov said in the comments republished prominently on www.chechnya.gov.ru. ....
"The West is interested to cut off the Caucasus from Russia. The Caucasus - a strategic frontier of Russia. If they take away the Caucasus from Russia, it's like taking away half of Russia."
Many Chechens have emigrated to Europe, Turkey, and Georgia and some have been recruited as insurgents, said Kadyrov.
"Now they strike a blow against Putin and Russia. Chechnya, Dagestan are weak, vulnerable parts of the Russian state," Kadyrov said, referring to the neighbouring region, which has also been rocked by violence. Asked if he was saying there were signs of CIA and MI6 participation in the violence, he said "Of course", he had seen evidence of their direct involvement in an operation he led.
"There was a terrorist Chitigov, he worked for the CIA. He had U.S. citizenship...When we killed him, I was in charge of the operation and we found a U.S. driving licence and all the other documents were also American," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Bummer would rather die (figuratively speaking) than be a party to something like this. I don’t think they caught a CIA operative but rather some white-bread Moose posing as one.
>I don’t think they caught a CIA operative but rather some white-bread Moose posing as one.<
Most likely a Russian one.
Paranoid Russian foreign policy predates Catherine the Great. Nothing new here.
Yeah, okay, there, sparky...spin the prop again!
Colonel, USAFR
Has anyone else noticed how all these dictators are blaming the US for everything now since Obama started his apology tour. What is Obama telling these foreign dictators/leaders?
Has Obama ever said they were wrong about the military, CIA, US in general?
Haven't they heard? Anti-Zelaya forces in Honduras are the focus of evil in the world now.
The Obama administration and the UN seem to think so, anyway.
BOO! Boy, these Russkies have something worse than BDS..American Derangement DSyndrome. It must really suck to know that you got your ass kicked by Reagan in the Cold War.
I didn’t know one needed a drivers license to drive in Chechnya.
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