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When protests broke out in Syria in late 2011, Russia hoped for a short, nasty war as a matter of Russian national interest -- just enough to put the Muslim Brotherhood and assorted Sunnis in their place. Violence from its own Sunni Muslim population has plagued Russia for decades. Saudi Arabia took over the defeated nationalist Chechen rebellion in the late 1990s, infusing it with money and Islamist overtones, prompting the second Chechen war. More recently, there has been open fighting and rioting in Moscow between Muslims and Slavs. Iran counted on a short war as well -- something to...

SNIPPET: "Two U.S. planes have flown radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other suspected terrorists to the United States, hours after Britain's High Court cleared the way for their extradition. The planes departed a Royal Air Force base immediately after the British High Court rejected last-minute appeals by Hamza and the others. The five had raised legal questions about human rights and prison conditions they expected to face in the United States. In rejecting the appeals, the British court cited an “overwhelming public interest” in seeing the extraditions carried out. Hamza is wanted on U.S. charges that include...

By Theodore ShoebatA manhunt for Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev still continues on; his brother Tamerlan, was killed in a shootout. Both are from Chechnya, a fact which will be sparking more interest in two very significant regions of the Muslim world which has not received the attention they deserve: the Balkans and the Caucasus. While much of these are still Christian, substantial parts are Muslim, such as Albania, Chechnya, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dagestan, and Azerbaijan. While the persons in question are Chechen, it must be comprehended that this is not the first time we have experienced jihad from people of...

HISTORY - Time line [some] Important dates in radical ISLAM VS WORLD 1263 - 1328 The 'Godfather of Islamic Fundamentalism' Who is the True Godfather of Islamic Fundamentalism? His name is Ibn Taymiyyah, or Taq ad-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah, and he lived from 1263 to 1328. His name by birth was Ahmad ibn Abdul-Halim ibn Abdas-Salaam. This individual could be considered as the real godfather of fundamentalism. Maududi borrowed extensively from Taymiyyah's writings. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/index.php? id=1194248__________________1347 [The Bahmani sultans & genocide on Indians]The Muslim conquests, down to the 16th century, were for the Hindus a pure struggle of life and death....

GROZNY, August 3 (RIA Novosti) - First Vice Prime Minister of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has banned gambling in the republic, announcing that all gambling facilities in Chechnya will be closed. "I am giving a week's notice to the owners of gambling parlors to dismantle their equipment," he said. "Otherwise, I will destroy the machines myself. Gambling is against the laws of Islam and has a negative impact on the younger generation." He also denied rumors that he owns a slot-machine business. "There are rumors that I own slot-machines. It is a lie," Kadyrov said, adding that he has never been...

25.05 / 19:34 Moscow: Electricity supply to be normalized MOSCOW. May 25. KAZINFORM. \Arnur Rakhymbekov\ At the present moment situation with electric power supply to some districts of Moscow is being stabilized, our correspondent reports. Serious power failure had practically paralyzed the life of the huge megapolis. Non-circulation of the underground triggered off a great number of traffic jams. At today’s press conference representatives of Mosenergo promised to localize consequences of the incident by close of the day. One of the reasons is an abnormal temperature of the spring in Moscow. It is confirmed by a great deal of short...

Clashes with Chechen rebels VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (AP) - Five Russian servicemen were killed in attacks and three others by mines in rebel Chechnya over the past day, an official in the Moscow-backed Kremlin administration said Saturday. One died from shots fired from a passing car in Grozny, the Chechen capital, the official said on condition of anonymity. Four others were killed in firing on Russian military positions throughout the republic, he said. Three soldiers died when their vehicle detonated a mine near the village of Itum-Kale. The Itum-Kale region and two other sectors of Chechnya came under assault from Russian...

MOSCOW (AP) - A shocked, wary Russia counted its rising toll of dead and steeled itself for new terrorist blows Saturday in its never-ending Chechen war, after commandos striking behind clouds of disabling gas brought a sudden bloody end to a hostage nightmare. The special forces assault on a Moscow theater after a three-day siege left Russians with feelings of both pain and pride: More than 90 hostages were dead, but 750 others were rescued and dozens of their Chechen captors killed. Russia "cannot be forced to its knees," President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) declared afterward on national...