[Myrddin]

The wording seems pretty clear. The Chechens are pissed off about having the Russians dropping mines into the forests around their homes. They are going to return the misplaced property to the area around the homes of the Russians.

The Russians aren't always the innocents in this feud. My boss shared information about a Russian operation that cut electricity to a Chechen village in the middle of a sub-zero night, then blew the windows out of the village homes with a ground hugging supersonic pass of a jet fighter.

When the Islamists attack simply to force Islam on other people, I'm quick to denounce the behavior. What I see in this instance is a tit-for-tat blood feud. The Russians provoked the action by mining. Unspoken is the possibility that the mines themselves are a reaction to having Islamist homicide bombers at work in a Russian city.

[Destro]

Firstly, Chechen civilians don't live in forests. Secondly, the man making the statement is not a Chechen but an Arab.

The mines are a reaction to having Arabs, Turks and other Islamic jihadists entering Chechnya via mountains to fight a jihad the majority of the Chechen people have given up on.

All is not lost, at least the jihadis have Americans like you to defend them.