Posted on 09/03/2014 7:10:16 PM PDT by markomalley
The radical Islamist group Isis (now known as Islamic State) has released a new video threatening Russian President Vladimir Putin that it plans to come to Russia and "free Chechnya".
The video footage, believed to be filmed in the Taqba airbase captured from Syrian government forces in Raqqa, shows an IS fighter in a military jet.
"This message is for you, Vladimir Putin! These are the aircraft you sent to Bashar [Assad], and we're going to send them to you. Remember that!" he said.
"This is Russian technology," said a militant with a Russian voice, according to The Moscow Times.
"We will with the consent of Allah free Chechnya and all of the Caucasus! The Islamic State is here and will stay here, and it will spread with the grace of Allah!" another militant warns.
The militant then addressed Putin, adding: "Your throne has already been shaken, it is under threat and will fall with our arrival [in Russia] ... We're already on our way with the permission of Allah!"
(video at link)
While the terror group has declared war on the United States for its air-strike campaign in northern Iraq, Russia has provoked its ire for supporting and supplying the Assad regime. The militants in the video refer to Assad as a "pig".
Russia's security services believe hundreds of militants from the Caucasus regions have fled to the Middle East to fight with the group.
One of the group's prominent military commanders, Omar al-Shishani, is a Georgian-born ethnic Chechen. With a deep hatred for the Kremlin, he played a role in the 2008 Russia-Georgia War, spying on Russian tanks and relaying their positions back to Georgian artillery.
Some social media users have called Shishani "Tarkhan the Rodent" in reference to his real name, Tarkhan Batirashvili. Shishani itself translates as "the Chechen" in Arabic.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov wrote on Instagram the group's warning was a "childish threat".
In the post that showed Kadyrov with a shirt emblazoned with Putin's face, he said the Islamist militants were "saying only what their masters in the West's security services were telling them to say".
"These jerks have nothing to do with Islam. They are the blatant enemies of Muslims all over the world. Naive people decided to threaten Chechnya and all of Russia with two aircraft. They can sit in 2,000 aircraft and still not make it to Russia," he wrote.
"I declare, with all responsibility, that whoever gets it into their heads to threaten Russia and speak the name of President Vladimir Putin will be destroyed as soon as he says it." He added: "We won't even wait for him to sit at the helm of a plane."
Before the release of the video, Russia's Defence Ministry condemned the "horrific crimes" committed by the group and requested that China and Western nations battle to end IS's campaign across the Middle East.
It would be nice if they could prod Russia into nuking Mecca.
Will Vlady respond by going golfing? /s
A lot of bragging from these fellows.
Snicker.
Will Vlady respond by going golfing? /s
There are probably some body parts from some ISIS people in the mail being sent back to ISIS right now. That’s how the KGB dealt with Muslim terrorists in the ‘80’s.
Tamerlane's response was swift and decisive and Beyazid died a prisoner in a dirty cell.
Ole Vlad might just make them regret saying that!
Kinda like Vlad Dracula.
He sent muslim messengers home with his responses nailed to their heads.
Take plenty of body bags with you,you’re gonna need them.
Indeed.
Vlad was a wild and crazy guy. The man had style.
I realize you idiots are drunk on your success in pushing the US around, but Russia isn’t currently being led by a debutante.
BITING_OFF_MORE_THAN_THEY_CAN_CHEW_PING!
Indeed.
My memory is sketchy, but I recall some muzzies kidnapping a Soviet official and demanding concessions in return for his release.
The Soviet response was to take prisoner someone associated with the muzzy outfit, and then to have one of his fingers delivered to the captors, with a note promising more deliveries at regular intervals. I think after the third or fourth delivery, the muzzies let the Soviet official go free.
Again, I cannot recall the details, but I seem to remember it happening in the 1980s.
To this day Vlad is considered a hero in Romania because he basically impaled all the criminals.
That’s right. I think there were even some ears and noses.
Obama is in a predicament because he doesn’t want to hurt his fellow muzzies.
I think Obama is going to get a lecture pretty soon.
Pooty will annihilate them. He does not suffer from the disease of liberalism.
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