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Banning of Wahhabism, Radical Islamism in Central Asia &
Caucasus, the CIA- Boston Terror Connections & More
Sibel Edmonds
19
May, 2013
The
Great Game Round Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments
regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. This week we start
with a story which was widely covered in the mainstream media:
He was caught
while allegedly attempting to convince an FSB agent focused on
fighting terrorism in the troubled north Caucasus to work for the
CIA.
“Over
the past two years we have been observing persistent attempts by the
CIA to recruit employees of Russian law enforcement and security
agencies,” the man said, with his face concealed and his voice
altered to protect his identity, adding that in January a CIA officer
had been expelled from Russia.
Next I want to
draw your attention to new information about the main suspect in the
Boston bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, [emphasis mine]:
The main
suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing – Tamerlan Tsarnaev – met
with an aide to Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev in
Manchester, New Hampshire, several weeks before the Boston attack,
which killed three people and left more than 260 injured.
In Chechnya,
Khadzhimuradov was known under the nick Spartak and served as a
bodyguard to Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev, who is
currently living in exile in London.
It’s
always interesting to notice which countries shelter these Chechen
terrorists because as Sibel Edmonds pointed
out:
“The
largest concentrations of these active Chechen terrorists are in (in
order): Turkey- A NATO member, Azerbaijan (Almost a NATO Member),
Germany (a NATO Member), followed by Dubai- one of the closest US
Allies in the Arab States, and Qatar-another very close US ally and
partner in the Arab states.”
Another Chechen
leader, who didn’t manage to escape the Russian security services
and therefore is not living in exile in a NATO country or close U.S.
ally, went on trial in Russia this week:
Ali Taziyev,
also known by his alias Magas, is charged with setting up an armed
militant group, illegal arms trafficking, terrorism, inciting a
rebellion and attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. Charges
against him also include 24 counts of terrorism.
Okay
let us get back to Tamerlan and remember this interesting
information:
Tamerlan
Tsarnaev attended a workshop sponsored by the CIA-linked Jamestown
Foundation, Izvestia reports
today (see English
translation here).
The Russian newspaper cites documents produced by the
Counterintelligence Department Ministry of Internal Affairs of
Georgia confirming that the NGO “Fund of Caucasus” held workshops
in the summer of 2012 and Tsarnaev attended.
There
are still a lot of questions regarding the Boston bombing and the
involvement of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. But we can definitely say that the
U.S. has always been the“The
Creator & Sustainer of Chechen Terrorism” and
the CIA plays a vital role in this. So how is the current situation
in Russia’s North Caucasus? Well, we just need to look at two news
headlines from today:
Meanwhile
Russia continues its crackdown on radical Islamic groups:
And
discusses the banning of Wahhabism:
“Wahhabism,
radical political Islamism as a broader concept, has become an
integrated anti-Russian protest ideology that attracts enough
powerful energy, of course, especially in Muslim areas, in regions of
traditional spread of Islam. We cannot treat it calmly, graciously,
not least because we see what is happening in the Muslim regions of
North Africa and the Middle East.
But there are
concerns about damaging the relations with Saudi Arabia and Qatar:
Some officials
are afraid because of some business interest. They are afraid that a
war with the same terrorists will break some mythical tranches from
Saudi Arabia and Qatar, some transactions, will make it impossible to
hold some events or to open some resorts.”
Russia should
make a decision as soon as possible because the problem could get
easily out of hand [emphasis mine]:
Roman
Silantyev, a religious research specialist and lecturer at one of
Moscow’s universities, suggested banning Wahhabism as an essential
way to fend off the alleged threat of radical Islamism being
disseminated in Russia. “A ban would at least make this possible.
Fortunately, it’s still curable,” he told the news conference.
The head of the Volga Centre for Regional and Ethno-Religious Studies
of the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies, Rais Suleimanov,
said radical Islamism is spreading in the Volga area and that
this has brought into being a situation there that is similar to that
in the North Caucasus 15 years ago. “It seems that this
scenario will reach Siberia, where hotbeds are arising already,” he
told the news conference.
Of course this
problem is not limited to Russia. The Central Asian countries are
also engaged in the fight against NATO/GCC-sponsored terror [emphasis
mine]:
Kyrgyzstan’s
State Committee for National Security said on May 16 that the
37-year-old man from the southern region of Jalal-Abad has been
charged with inciting ethnic, racial, and religious hatred, the
illegal possession and distribution of extremist materials, and the
premeditated use of extremist symbols.
Hizb
ut-Tahrir is a London-based Sunni political organization that
seeks to unite all Muslim countries into an Islamic caliphate.
According to
the prosecutor, the group planned to blow up the Opera and Ballet
Theater in Astana and also to send financial support to Islamic
insurgents in Russia’s North Caucasus.
“In
addition to the escalation of terrorist activity across the region
and the world as a whole by groups that made a name with their
previous [terrorist] acts in our country – the Islamic Movement of
Uzbekistan [IMU] and Salafist groups – we now have information that
terrorists are grouping on the border of Afghanistan, Tajikistan and
Turkmenistan,” he said though he declined to discuss specifics
about the available intelligence data for security reasons. “This
poses a danger to Uzbekistan.”
The Islamic
Movement of Uzbekistan is
becoming increasingly powerful and popular. Nowadays they already
manage to find sympathizers in the United States:
The indictment
against him alleges that between August 2012 and May 2013, he
knowingly conspired with others to provide support and resources,
including computer software and money, to the Islamic Movement of
Uzbekistan, a designated terrorist organization.
And some day
the IMU might even become the new “al-Qaeda”.
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