How Chechnya Became a Breeding Ground for Terror

Middle East Quarterly ^ | Summer 2005 | Lorenzo Vidino

[knighthawk]

On September 1, 2004, a group of Chechen terrorists took hostage and two days later murdered at least 335 schoolchildren and parents in Beslan, a town in the Russian republic of North Ossetia. The atrocity focused world attention on Chechnya. The Russian government used the event to reiterate its arguments that Chechen terrorists and foreign jihadists supporting them have ideological, financial, and operational ties with Islamist terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda.[1] Although President Vladimir Putin and top Russian security officials provided evidence of links between Chechen fighters and Al-Qaeda, European politicians and mainstream Western journalists focused instead upon the Russian army's brutality and dismissed Putin's claims as an attempt to gain sympathy in the West and deflect criticism of Russia's handling of a nationalist insurgency.

Putin may have been opportunistic, but he was also correct. A close examination of the evolution of the Chechen movement indicates that Islamists and followers of Al-Qaeda have increasingly sought to co-opt the Chechen movement as their own.

[knighthawk]

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[Responsibility2nd]

Another excellent synopsis on Chechnya

Backgrounder: Chechen Terrorism (Russia, Chechnya, Separatist)

Friday, April 19, 2013 10:18:08 AM · by markomalley · 15 replies

CFR ^ | 4/8/2010 | Preeti Bhattacharji

Introduction Chechens are an ethnic minority living primarily in Russia's North Caucasus region. For the past two hundred years, they have generally been governed by Moscow, though they have had varying degrees of de facto autonomy. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Chechen separatists launched a coordinated campaign for independence, which resulted in two devastating wars and an ongoing insurgency in Russia's republic of Chechnya. Militants in and around Chechnya continue to agitate for independence, though the death of separatist leader Shamil Basayev in July 2006 weakened the separatist movement. However, violence in the North Caucasus has escalated since...

 

[facedown]

The same way every other Muslim hell-hole does.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping. Keep me on..

[Cowboy Bob]

Author makes it sound like Chechnya is a recent problem. Maybe he should investigate why Stalin deported them all to Central Asia. BTW, no other nationality in the Caucasus likes the Chechens.

[US Navy Vet]

Uh it went MOSLEM Centuries ago.

[Travis McGee]

[henkster]

They got deported for collaborating with the Nazis during the “Great Patriotic War.” So did the Crimean Tatars, the Kalmyks and a few others. But they didn’t turn into terrorists like the Chechens.

[MarMema]

BTW, no other nationality in the Caucasus likes the Chechens.

Thank you!!! SO true. I have been pounding an anti-chechen drum here much of the morning.

[MarMema]

But, they went Wahabi in our lifetimes.

[bigheadfred]

Somewhere around 610 AD.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Bump for a history lesson later.

[Sacajaweau]

Stop calling it a religion.

[muawiyah]

The Chechens were radicalied by the exact same guy who radicalized Hollywood ~ and the black leadership elite in this nation ~ his name was JOSEPH STALIN.

[EEGator]

Devil worship is a religion...it’s evil, yet still a religion.

[DJ MacWoW]

you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. Deuteronomy 17:15

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[aberaussie]

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[varmintman]

Basic reality, Chechnya and Chechens are leftovers from the Golden Horde and the Crimean Tartars and still hold grudges from that age. You won’t find a more ****ed-up group of people under the sun. Joseph Stalin got soft and deported them all to Siberia after WW-II (he probably needed to massacre them) and then somebody got doubly soft more recently and let them come back. That’s the kind of mistake people pay for. Even the place names are leftover from the Golden Horde, ‘Khankala’, ‘Berkat Yurt’, ‘Alkan Yurt’, Meskar Yurt’.....

[Iron Munro]

Let the muslim crazies kill themselves in their own world.

Just keep them out of America and out of the White House.