And a convert to and Misunderstander of Islam, who characterized a barrel of explosives as "a small present for our apostates and infidels," was apparently killed in a Russian raid last week. "Islamic militants blamed in deadly November attack on Russian train," by Philip P. Pan for the Washington Post, March 6 (thanks to Davida):
MOSCOW -- Russian authorities on Saturday blamed a group of Islamic militants killed and captured in an offensive last week for the November bombing of a luxury train to St. Petersburg, the deadliest terrorist attack on Russian soil outside the volatile North Caucasus in years.Alexander Bortnikov, director of the Federal Security Service, said explosive components recovered in the raid in the troubled Ingushetia province, located west of Chechnya, and DNA taken from the alleged rebels matched those found after the attack on the Nevsky Express train, which left 28 people dead and more than 90 others injured....
Speaking in a televised meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev, Bortnikov said the group is also suspected in 15 other attacks, including bombings and the slaying of security officers.
Among those killed in the raid, he said, was Alexander Tikhomirov, a young preacher who had emerged as a major figure in the violent radical Muslim insurgency that has evolved from the Chechen separatist movement and spread across the mountains of Russia's southwest frontier.
Tikhomirov's death could represent an important victory for Russian forces in the North Caucasus, because he was considered an effective propagandist and seemed to play a key role in rallying the insurgency's ethnic and local factions around the goal of establishing a fundamentalist Caucasus Emirate.
A convert to Islam from Siberia who studied in Egypt and was thought to be in his late 20s, he had appeared in Internet videos taking credit for suicide attacks on the Ingush governor's motorcade and on a police station in Ingushetia's largest city, Nazran. The latter showed him sitting with what appeared to be a barrel of explosives, which he described as "a small present for our apostates and infidels."...
This book seems as though it may be on the mark:
"Russia's Islamic threat"
by Gordon H. Hahn
Product Description:
"The notion that the Chechen-led jihad in the North Caucasus is an indigenous affair, far removed from the global Islamist jihad, is perhaps comforting to Americans and other Westerners, but it is a myth. Moreover, the North Caucasus jihad may be the harbinger of a much larger Muslim challenge to Russia’s political stability and state integrity. So concludes Gordon M. Hahn in this meticulously researched analysis of Russia’s emerging Islamic threat. Hahn draws an explicit picture of an already sophisticated and effective Chechen jihadist network that is expanding the territorial scope of its operations with inspiration and some assistance from the global jihadist movement. Given its proximity to large stockpiles of diverse weapons, the expanding population of Russian-based Islamist terrorists is particular cause for alarm, the author warns.
The book lifts the veil on the Muslim challenge to Russia’s political stability, national security, and state integrity as well as the potentially grave threat to international and U.S. security. Hahn shows that many of the demographic, historical, socioeconomic, political, and religious factors sparking jihadi revolution in Muslim countries are extant in Russia and are driving revolutionary Islamist terrorism there. In a penetrating conclusion to the book, the author analyzes the policies that have fueled the rise of militant Islam and offers a series of important recommendations for policymakers."
http://www.amazon.com/Russias-Islamic-Threat-Prof-Gordon/dp/030012077X
Analysis needs sharpening up, but even Reuters has this:-
"Global Jihad creeping into Russia's insurgency"
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLDE61H0UQ._CH_.2420
Gotta watch the converts, they're very eager to show thier faith is genuine.
Отлично! This is excellent news. I have always admired how the Russians deal with terrorists--no trials for them. If only we were to emulate their example...
It seems Russia is busy thinking Israel, Europe and America are out to get it when in reality the populations there are not interested at all. Therefore, it supports Iran and Libya, and Syria and so on.
How can it not realise that doing that will only make the train attack seem small? Perhaps even some of their donated nuclear technology will be used against them one day....
Bortnikov said the group is also suspected in 15 other attacks, including bombings and the slaying of security officers.
Kinda takes ya back to the Red October daze with Vladimir and Joe and the guys blowing up carriages, robbing banks in hails of gunfire and whatnot. Oh, those were the days, the salad days.
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A cracked nut salad, that is.
"...the group is also suspected in 15 other attacks, including bombings and the slaying of security officers."
Islam...feel the love?...
From the article:
"A convert to Islam from Siberia who studied in Egypt"...
He studied {i.e. underwent jihad training and further brainwashing} *in Egypt*.
Not Saudi Arabia. Not Yemen. Not Pakistan. Not Afghanistan.
EGYPT.
Leave it to the Russians, God bless them all. You can only piss them of so much before they go all out.
There are no dhimmis in Russia, folks. Remember that. They will only take so much before it becomes an all out attack on the attackers. I believe we will see Russia on the frontlines in the very near future.
"...the goal of establishing a fundamentalist Caucasus Emirate." -- from the article
Lovely. Question for anyone: What's the normative administrative hierarchy in an Islamic Caliphate, e.g., in an ideal Islamic world, at what administrative level does and Emirate fall?
Dearest "Eastview", please tell me an existing "caliphate" and, please, I mean a real one that is recognized by all of Islam... and I will answer your question, dear.
Sitting and waiting....
exposessithlords wrote:
It seems Russia is busy thinking Israel, Europe and America are out to get it when in reality the populations there are not interested at all. Therefore, it supports Iran and Libya, and Syria and so on.
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I think you're right. While many posters here are extolling Russia's lack of political correctness in its handling of Jihad terrorists—with some good reason—it is important to realize that Russia is playing "realpolitik" with the West, and is many cases weakening the position of Infidels so it can score petty political points against Europe and the US.
Russia spends a lot of its time blocking even the most flimsy sanctions against Iran, and is a backer of Syria and even Hizb'allah.
Unless things change a great deal, I think it unlikely that we will be able to look to Russia as a great ally against Jihad.
Ah, yes: the inevitable Russia argument is going to occur. What is it about Russia that makes people so... argumentative?
Don't count Russia out of the counterjihad struggle. I think it can and will play an important part and has the potential to be an extremely valuable ally for our side. Yes, Russia has had its moments of associating with unsavory people--but then again, so have we (former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, anyone?) and Russia has continually had to play foreign powers off against us due to the way we've treated the Russians since the fall of the Soviet Union. Lest you think that Russia and Iran are extremely close, you ought to consider this article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/international/2010/03/100306_iran_expells_rus_pilots.shtml
The essence of it is that Russian-Iranian relations are deteriorating.
This story from modern Russia resembles something from the past.
Remember in the early 20-th century , the Czarist secret police used to hound out the nihilists and communists ?
Then some 20-30 years later these same communist people came to rule Russia and the rest is history.
Muslims are increasing in number in Russia and ethnic Slavic Russians are decreasing.
There have been more than one occasion where Russian police have caught ethnic Russian Islamic converts in terror plots.
Does that mean like their communist predecessors 20-30 years later these same Muslim converts will be ruling Russia ?
Ladies and gentlemen
the creature 'Debanjee' above, hidden beneath his pseudo-Hindu name, is a nasty Mohammedan dementor.
Ignore him.
Ginger, my question was a serious one. Osama bin Laden lamented the loss of the Caliphate in his statement immediately following 9/11 where he spoke of "80 years of humiliation," referring to its abolition by Kemal Ataturk after WWI. Many other Islamists, including Ayman al-Zawahiri, have pined for its re-establishment as the historical norm for the Islamic world. So my question is, what were the administrative subunits within the Caliphate, historically, and where would an Emirate fall within such a hierarchy?