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2021-12-10 Africa North
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African al-Qaeda turns to lawyers for help against PMC Wagner
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Boris Rozhin
| They threaten to intensify the fight with the help of the best Islamic lawyers who will in the courts prove the illegality of the presence of PMC Wagner and Russian military specialists. |
[KP] Information appeared on the Internet that the militants of the West African terrorist group JNIM (al-Qaeda branch in the Maghreb and West Africa) issued a remarkable manifesto, where, in addition to various threats and promises of collaboration with other jihadist groups, also affected the growing influence of the Russian Federation in West Africa.
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The militants threaten to intensify the fight against the "occupation of the crusaders" with the help of the best Islamic lawyers who will in the courts prove the illegality of the presence of the Russian military in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, and also try to win over the European governments that also oppose the presence of PMC Wagner and Russian military specialists in West Africa.
Particularly touching is the passage "We want human rights to be respected by everyone who steps on our land". and claims of the "right to jihad" in their country. I wonder where they found such permits?
The position of civilized states (at least official and public) is not to recognize any national or international jihad. Although this, of course, does not prevent individual "especially democratic countries" from supporting and financing the activities of jihadist organizations in order to achieve their narrowly selfish goals.
You don't have to go far for examples - just remember the US support for terrorist groups in Syria, where they financed in the interests of overthrowing the legitimate government of Bashar al-Assad.
And ties with IS have not been canceled. It can be recalled that both the Taliban leadership and the former president of pro-American Afghanistan Hamid Karzai directly accused Washington of supporting the Khorasan wilayat.
| ... ISIS in Afghanistan/the Indian subcontinent... |
So, on the one hand, there is no "right to jihad", but on the other hand, such calls with a specific goal of "jihad" influence in the region.
Apparently, the writer of this opus is familiar with the current agenda of the United States and France in relation to Russian influence in West Africa and is trying to sit down on it, speaking as if on behalf of the local population, which is allegedly against Russian influence.
By a happy coincidence, theses about the need to drive the Russians out of West Africa coincide with the irritated publications of the French media, where the processes taking place in the region are extremely negatively assessed when the French neo-colonial empire retreats from its usual sphere of influence, and Russia, China, Turkey come to its place.
Of course, regarding the French troops in West Africa, "human rights," "courts," and "alliance with European states" are not mentioned by the militants, since, of course, this is not about human rights, but about spheres of influence in West Africa, where this a terrorist group is trying to break into the processes of their transformation in order to try to get some benefits from the support of one of the major players.
Of course, the militants themselves may well believe in the declared theses about "jihad", but they sell themselves as a geopolitical tool, which once again shows the "floating subjectivity" of such organizations that are ready to outsource themselves.
JNIM, of course, is not the largest group in the region, but such a statement shows that the appearance of the Russian Federation in Mali has caused concern not only among the French, who are actually watching the ongoing erosion of their sphere of influence, but also among local militants, who see what the situation leads to when Russian instructors, or PMC Wagner, although this is denied in every possible way, begin to deal with security issues.
The training of local police, military and various special forces leads to an increase in systemic pressure on terrorist and insurgent groups in volumes that were never achieved during the period when security issues were at the mercy of France.
Suffice it to look at the CAR, where the influence of local militants has significantly decreased over the past 2 years.
At the same time, the Russian Federation did not do something supernatural. It sells a turnkey security package and delivers a “feelable” result without having to endure a foreign contingent without any results.
The comparison is not in favor of Paris. And of course, the experience of the CARs is being studied in other African countries that have security problems.
Now the Mali authorities themselves are inviting Russia to their place, at the same time asking the French to leave, have not achieved significant results in the fight against terrorist and separatist groups in Northern Mali.
And of course, the presence of Russia will affect the level of the fight against anti-government and terrorist groups. There is something for the militants to worry about and start yelling about the "right to jihad" and "human rights."
Will Paris and Brussels rejoice at such unexpected "allies" in the fight against Russia? Will there not be a desire to quietly supply weapons to the militants in order to destabilize West Africa in spite of Russia?
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