Russia Blog has written before about the Chechen War, and quoted Chechen terrorists, to give you a better understanding of what Russia is facing in its southern states. Here's part of a great article today posted on Tech Central Station:
Kavkaz-Center website, harbored and nourished by the European Union, aims to "bring to the world community the truthful information about the war, war crimes, the facts of genocide of the whole nation by the invading state and the position of the defending side -- the Chechen Mujahideen".
Consider some of the recent attempts made at fulfilling this mandate.
On October 17, the website reported a "statement from Military Amir Abdallah Shamil Abu-Idris (Shamil Basayev) on results of the assault operation in Nalchik on 13 October, 2005". The so-called "operation" comprised a terrorist takeover of several civilian and administrative buildings in a regional centre of an Autonomous Republic near Chechnya.
"Bismillahi-Rahmani-Rahim! (In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful!). Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, Who made us Muslims and blessed us with Jihad on His Straight Path!", raved self-appointed Amir. The letter proceeded to describe the "glorious" deeds of Allah's warriors that left some 106 civilians and police personnel dead. The statement is peppered with the terms "kafirs" -- unfaithful to Islam -- and "minafiqs" -- a misspelled term munafiq -- as describing Muslim and Christian civilians slaughtered by the "noble Mujahideen". "Three halicopters (sic) and a few units of military hardware were destroyed, war booty captured."
The terrorist warlord went on to describe the Mujahideen losses:
"Our casulties (sic) -- 41 Shaheeds, insha Allah. For us it is greater casulties. These casulties caused bacause five days before the operation there was a serious information leakage...
"Despite of greater losses, this is a big success for us, as our dead ones in Paradise, insha Allah and their dead ones in the Hell! Unprecedented courage and heroism of our brothers in Nalchik spikes confidence and determination into us to continue struggle up to a full victory...
Read the full article by Constantin Gurdgiev
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