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Chechen terrorists follow Al-Qaeda training manual

Sep 4, 2004 7:50 am By Robert Spencer

While Jihad Watch continues to be one of the only places that will tell you what these murderers in Russia really were — jihadists — and the mainstream media continues to identify them as “militants” or “insurgents,” (never as “Muslims”), details are coming out that are making their mask harder to continue wearing. Like this from WND:

As details emerge of the three-day siege of a Russian school by Islamic terrorists — which reportedly resulted in more than 200 dead and 700 injured — it is becoming apparent that the operation closely followed the terror roadmap laid out in issue 10 of Al Battar, al-Qaida’s online training manual.

The tragic events unfolded in the town of Beslan, in the North Ossetia region, near Chechnya, as Islamic Chechen terrorists with suicide-bomb belts seized the school Wednesday, taking as many as 1,500 hostages, later releasing some. The siege ended in explosions, gunfire and the screams of fleeing children as commandos stormed the building.

The terrorism roadmap, written by Abdel Aziz Al Moqrin, leader of al-Qaida’s Saudi Arabian cell who was killed in June, provides a detailed and simplified “Kidnapping for Dummies” guide.

Reports in various media outlets illustrate just how closely it appears the guidelines were followed.

A section of the document titled, “How to deal with hostages,” advises the following:

Separate the young people from the old, the women and the children. The young people have more strength, hence their ability to resist is high. The security forces must be killed instantly. This prevents others from showing resistance.

Reports from the scene indicate that younger and stronger males were killed very early into the operation, following these instructions closely. The following news media reports further document this:

“Freed hostage Zalina Dzandzarova said that two suicide bombers had killed themselves on Wednesday — they exploded themselves in the corridor, where male hostages were being kept.” — Kommersant Daily
“Women with small infants greatly upset the fighters. In the morning they led them all out of the gym and put them apart on the second floor” — Unidentified freed woman hostage to Izvestia daily

“People are lying on the floor next to one another. The terrorists separated us. Those, who did not feel very good, were placed in locker rooms. They made male hostages break the windows, because it was too stuffy in the gym.” — Freed hostage Zalina Dzandarova to Kommersant Daily

The kidnapping manual advises the kidnappers to, “Speak in a language or dialect other than your own, in order to prevent revealing your identity.” Based on eyewitness reports from freed captives, it appears that they followed this directive as well:

“In general, they do not talk much and they talk a lot in whispers … . In the main they explained themselves with gestures. But it did happen that they spoke. By their speech, it is possible to say that among them were Chechens and also Ingush. We did not see their faces. They did not take off their masks.” — Unidentified freed woman hostage to Izvestia daily

The terrorists are advised by Moqrin to, “Wire the perimeter of the hostage location to deny access to the enemy.” Reports from the scene indicate that one of the first actions of the terrorists was to mine the gym.

They told us to sit down and began to mine the gym. Two big explosive devices have been placed in the basketball hoop.” — Unidentified freed woman hostage to Izvestia daily

“The terrorists planted a lot of mines and booby-traps filled with metal bolts in the gym.” — Defense Ministry spokesman to Interfax.

The guidelines that the terrorists followed appear to be comprehensive and are not limited to just operational instructions but include extensive instructions on planning. It recommends five possible reasons for conducting a kidnapping or hostage operation.

1. Force the government or the enemy to succumb to some demands.
2. Put the government in a difficult situation that will create a political embarrassment between the government and the countries of the detainees.
3. Obtaining important information from the detainees.
4. Obtaining ransoms.
5. Bringing a specific case to light. For example, this occurred at the beginning of the cases in Chechnya and Algeria, with the hijacking of the French plane and the kidnapping operations performed by the brothers in Chechnya and the Philippines.

It appears that this operation was done for reasons 1 and 2 and possibly item 5. According to North Ossetian President Alexander Dzasokhov, the terrorists” demands were simple, “to liberate Chechnya and declare its independence from Russia.”

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