[PA Engineer]

There was a couple of years gap after the president was killed and when another guy finally was elected, he wasn’t in office long before he instituted Sharia Law in Chechnya.

That is where the Wahhabism comes in.

[Eva]

Yes, that is when the greatest influx of the Mujhadeen occurred, but Al Harbi, the relative of the Saudi student who was, for a time, a person of interest, went to Chechnya to fight in the 80’s.

The Caucasus is an important part of the Islamic push into Europe and Russia. Chechnya allied with Hitler in WWII, another interesting piece of the puzzle.