Posted on 10/13/2005 6:37:44 PM PDT by strategofr
Putin gave shoot to kill orders and had the town sealed off Thursday afternoon, Oct. 13, hours after some 300 terrorists swept through the capital of the Caucasian Muslim republic of Kabardino-Balkaria bordering on Chechnya and mounted simultaneous raids on 3 police headquarters, federal military bases, a gun store and the regional airport. The police HQ caught fire, another police building was besieged and hostages were taken. Some of the casualties are civilians. All schools were evacuated.
Russian federal troops and special forces supported by combat helicopters and armed vehicles engaged the terrorists in clashes during the day. Nalchik regional airport was closed.
DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report that the Islamist terrorists seized sizeable quantities of weapons in their raids on police stations and armories. As night fell some withdrew to the forests around Nalchik with their looted weapons. Others mounted a second wave of attacks on the embattled Caucasian town.
The Nalchik Wahhabi cell of al Qaeda is notably dangerous and ruthless. It provided the jumping off base for the raiders who besieged the Beslan school a year ago, leaving 332 dead, most children.
After than attack, on Sept. 13, 2004, DEBKAfile reported that the small, out-of-the- way province of Kabardino-Balkaria (est. pop. one million) attracted an al Qaeda presence from 2002 when American bases went up in Georgia. Its leaders decided to counter the US presence by establishing a strategic base in the Muslim Northern Caucasus, the southwestern region of the Russian Federation.
Most of the province’s inhabitants are ethnic Circassian Muslims. The unrecorded chapter of the Chechen intelligence war of the 1990s relates how the Circassian community of Jordan, which was the security buttress of the Hashemite throne, was used by US, British and French intelligence as a pipeline into the Chechen breakaway movement for close surveillance of its conflict with Russia. Al Qaeda, which tracks and meets every American intelligence move connected with the global war on terror, countered by going into the remote and relatively affluent Kabardino-Balkaria to quietly acquire its own Circassian asset.
Until early 2005, the Kabardino-Balkaria cells were the rear bases of the Saudi Wahhabis fighting in the Chechen rebellion against Russia. They were also used for trading intelligence and weapons. But then the Saudi fighters moved out of Chechnya to join Abu Musab al Zarqawi’s terrorist ranks in Iraq. Al Qaeda then promoted the Nalchik Wahhabi cell to become its leading Caucasian base.
I find it interesting that al Queda found it easier to set up in Russia than Georgia, a smaller, more disorganized, militarily weaker country.
The Wahabbis. I say we split the Saudi oil with the Ruskies 50/50. That is of course after we leave Riyadh, mecca and Medina in ruins! Im sick of these sub-human scum!!
Man,that is one ugly War, I have seen the Pics
I'm glad Russia has the freedom to deal with these vermin. If this happened in the US, we'd have to treat them with kid gloves rather than give them what they desreve. May none of them get out alive.
No, there's no terror war, Islam is a religion of peace! /moonbat mode
And deal with them they had better. This is a major challange to Putin. If he plays it like a police action like Beslin he's in trouble. I think he is going to have to deploy a large force and sweep that area clean or he is going to lose another "republic".
If Russia pushed from the north and we from the south and Georgia from the east there could be some major progress.
That really shouldn't surprise. After all, they have found it extraordinarily easy to set up in the UK, Germany, Holland, and Sweden.
One can only hope. If there was more unity, we might get somewhere against Islam. I'm hesitant to see the US get bogged down but there's got to be some way to work with other countries on this threat.
The day will come when such attacks are carried out simultaneously in every Muslim capital on the planet, by the combined forces of the Christian world + Israel.
"The day will come when such attacks are carried out simultaneously in every Muslim capital on the planet, by the combined forces of the Christian world + Israel."
On that day, I'll smoke every slab of baby backs I have in my freezer and celebrate!!!!!
Define "Christian world." Europe has already surrendered, Canada's halfway there, the Phillipines has been battling an insurgency, Venezuela's going commie. "Christian world" is starting to mean the U.S. all by its lonesome.
" slab of baby backs"
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""Christian world" is starting to mean the U.S. all by its lonesome."
So is "anti-communist world".
"...slab of baby backs..."
The poster is talking about a slab of babyback ribs for the barbecue grill. They're generally pork, which would make it even more insulting to the defeated Muslim terrorists who would bear witness to the Christian celebration.
~ Blue Jays ~
Sho nuff.
"babyback ribs for the barbecue grill."
Thanks. Not a term of widespread currency in the Jewish community. (We don't eat pork either, but we're not offended by the notion that people do.)
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