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| Chechen Terror Usually Aimed at Russia |
| 2013-04-19 |
| [ONLINE.WSJ] Except that this was Moslem terrorism, inspired by the usually gruesome vids available on YouTube, the anti-Americanism (and by extension, anti-Westernism) that's been fostered since early in the Cold War, and the desire to belong to something bigger than themselves. Before the fetish with Islam, the followers believed in Communism or Naziism or whatever man on horseback was current where they lived. Chechen nationalism wasn't Islamic when it first blossomed in 1991, but it was brutal. Djokar Dudaev wasn't a devout Moslem. But once the movement fell under the sway of the Salafists, and particularly Shamil Bashaev, it plumbed new depths of brutality in homage to Allah. Highlights included shelling a maternity hospital, the Nord Ost theater incident where they took an entire audience hostage and had to be gassed out, and of course the atrocity at Beslan, which was easily as depraved as anything done by Nazis. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Chechen Nationalism as you refer to it did not blossom in 1991, it is 200 years old. A little research on the first Shamil Basaev might be informational. The second and modern Shamil Basaev was a MERCENARY. He fought with the Russians in the Abkhaz war. When the old guard was killed off (Basaev, Alaev, Maskhadov, etc.), radical foreign fighters found santuary in the Mtn.s of Chechnya and these inidviduals brought a fundamentalist Islam into a leaderless vacuum with a population of unemployed angry kids who were raised in a decade of warfare. Brutality goes both ways, I wouldn't exactly call the Russian's the "nice" guys then or now. It seems a lot heavy on the, rather thin, Chechen ethnicity aspect of these scumbags and not enough on the radical Islamic ideology, which is nationless and the real driver, IMHO. |
| Posted by: jefe101 2013-04-19 21:54 |
| #2 Russia and Spain... Rantburg article 8/8/2012 |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-04-19 21:30 |
| #1 This Artic now begs the question - WAS SOMEBODY(S) HIGH ON THE CHECHEN LIST OF TO-BE-ASSASSINATED/BOOMED RUNNING OR OBSERVING THE BOSTON MARATHON UNBEKNOWNST TO US AUTHORITIES??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-04-19 19:44 |