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| Chechen jihadi talks about the Master Plan |
| 2003-11-28 |
| This is a standard propaganda release, but it does give us some more insight as to the who’s who among the Caucasus krazed killers. Question (Q): Ramzan, Jamaats play a special role in Chechen Resistance; as a rule they are ranked among the radical wing of the force fighting against Russian army in the Caucasus. Ramzan (R): Jamaat means ‘a community of people’ in Arabic. But in Chechnya by Jamaat they mean militant groups led by an ‘amir’ (a commander) who are fighting in the name of Allah. This is where we are fundamentally different from other Chechens who have taken up arms to defend their Homeland and to fight for Chechnya’s independence. For us the most important thing is not the status of our Republic but the impossibility to put up with the order they are imposing on us, which is alien to Muslims. We believe that Muslims cannot live according to the laws of kafirs’ (infidels’); Muslims have their own laws given to them by the Most High. These laws are called Sharia. We are fighting to establish the laws of Allah, Sharia laws in our land. Q: And is there a difference between the ways Jamaat members and other fighters act in battle conditions? R: I think there is a difference. Jamaat fighters are more disciplined, they don’t smoke or drink. They keep all the rules imposed by Islam, they sense more keenly the power of Allah and his influence in our everyday life. Q: Please, tell me what is the current situation inside the Resistance and in Chechnya in general? R: During this year big changes have taken place in the Resistance, organizational as well as military changes. In the summer last year we started the process of uniting our forces and now you can say this process has virtually been completed. We have successfully overcome our differences and have now created a single structure to manage our troops. As you probably know, Chechnya can be divided into three areas. The area to the north of the Terek River we call the Northern Front, the rest is the Western Front (west of the Argun River) and the Eastern Front (east of the Argun River). Dokku Umarov is in command of the Western Front, and Abu al-Walid is in the command of the Eastern Front. The territory on the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia is under jurisdiction of Commander Khamzat (Ruslan) Gelayev. Concerning the Jamaats I would like to say that while we keep receiving financial and material support from our Chief Commander Amir Abu al-Walid, those of us who operate in Western Chechnya and in Ingushetia, are under the command of Amirs Umarov and Gelayev accordingly. This fact alone shows that we are all steadfastly following the order established by the leadership of the Chechen Resistance. Q: From your words I can assume that you operate not only in Chechnya but all over the North Caucasus. R: Yes, very much so. Not only we carry out raids to various areas in the Caucasus, but we also form local Jamaats, militant sabotage groups locally. We are joined by a lot of Kabardinians, Dagestanis, Karachaevans, Ingushetians and even Ossetians (Muslims). Q: That means that those in Russia who say that you want to create a caliphate in the Caucasus from sea to sea, are right? R: Yes, it is so. Since they are unwilling to negotiate with us, then we’ll be doing what we can. And there is a lot we can do. Next year the war will seize the entire Caucasus from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea. Apart from Ossetia and Ingushetia, this year another guerrilla war has already started in two areas of Dagestan bordering Chechnya. I swear by Allah, this is only the beginning. Russian authorities are well aware of this and this is why they are trying to organize formations of the local residents in the area who could resist us effectively. Similar process is taking place in Chechnya. But it will come to absolutely nothing. Having reached a certain level of confrontation inside Chechnya, Russia will sooner or later have to withdraw its troops beyond the Terek River, for instance. In that case we will need no more than two weeks to destroy all the pro-Russian puppet formations. Q: Ramzan, I would like to go back to the beginning of our conversation. From what you said about Jamaats, I understand that you are guided solely by the Muslim world, by the Arab countries. But how would you explain the fact that Kadyrov’s election as Chechen President wasn’t recognized by any Western, Christian countries, but by it was recognized by Islamic international organizations, who even sent their observers to the elections? R: Most leaderships of Muslim countries have as much to do with Islamic world as FSB officer, mufti of Ingushetia Albogachiev. Ordinary Muslims are helping us and we are grateful for their support. By the way, I quite suppose that Western governments and their security services also secretly finance us through different Islamic funds and organizations. I am convinced that there are Western powers in whose interests it is to keep Russia permanently involved into such a slow-burning conflict as the war in the Caucasus. Q: It is a known fact that Jamaat fighters are armed and equipped better than other Chechen groups. This is due to the fact that you have foreign support. Do you ever have any conflicts within the Resistance because of this? R: We do sometimes. But if a commander cannot look after his men, he is simply a bad commander. Q: What do you think about the actions of those who seized Nord-Ost (the Moscow theater events), who organized the blast in Tushino airfield in Moscow, etc.? R: I support them fully. I don’t believe we should separate Russian Government from the Russian people. It’s Russian soldiers who are fighting in our land, they are the ones who kill our children, our wives, and our elderly. Russian pilots are bombing out cities and villages. They don’t want to talk to us, they ignore us, so we will give them a dose of their own medicine. We have no warplanes, so we will be blowing ourselves up in Russian cities. I’ve been in Russia recently, checking on the situation at the train stations in Rostov and Mineralnye Vody. These train stations are not guarded well and there are freight trains with oil and chemicals. We shall definitely repeat the Nord-Ost events, but this time it will be something of a technological disaster. I don’t know how to blow up a chemical plant, but if somebody explains it to me, I’ll do it. If Putin thinks that industrial and military facilities are well-protected, he is wrong. They are not. I posted this because it’s a fairly good look at the mindset of the Chechen jihadis (and the difference between them and al-Qaeda is largely one of semantics). This war isn’t about independence for them, it’s about conquest and should they ever manage to drive Russia out of Chechnya proper they plan on spreading it to other regions just like Khattab did when he invaded Dagestan. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 The Russ don't have to reach back to GK or Vikings for national memories on handling seething populations. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-11-28 9:24:17 AM |
| #2 Go get 'em Vlad! I have to snicker, however, for you will prolly be virulently attacked for advocating treating krazed killers as such. It's the nature of the Eeewww and their flavor of LLL to think they are the *arbiters* of *morality* - and response in kind is not in their little book. As for me, I'm with you. In fact, I am getting that old *genocidal* feeling... What would Ghengis Khan or the Viking raiders have done about a *problem* like this? That would be on my list of potential responses... and moving up fast... ;-) |
| Posted by: .com 2003-11-28 6:25:03 AM |
| #1 Chechnya is a dagger aimed at the heart of Russia, as is Bosnia a dagger aimed at the heart of Europe. UNLEASH PUTIN! |
| Posted by: Vlad the Muslim Impaler 2003-11-28 2:21:31 AM |