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| Russia's Caucasus Islamists 'Pledge Allegiance' to IS | ||
| 2015-06-25 | ||
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, according to a recording which was welcomed by IS after being posted online. The voice recording posted on YouTube Sunday said gunnies in Russia's Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republiccurrently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... , Chechnya, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria regions had all swore fealty to His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , head of the feared jihadist group. "Obeying the order of Allah... we are declaring our allegiance to Caliph Ibrahim ben Awwad ben Ibrahim al Badri al-Qoureishi al Husseini for obedience and subordination," the recording in both Arabic and Russian says, referring to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. "We testify that all mujahedeen of the Caucasus... are united in this decision and there are no disagreements among us on this issue," the male voice says, listing the four Russian regions. A front man for Islamic State group, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, on Tuesday welcomed the news in a recording of his own. "We congratulate the soldiers of Islamic State in the Caucasus... we congratulate them for making allegiance to the Caliph. He accepts your allegiance and names Sheikh Abu Mohammad al-Qadari as (governor) of the Caucasus." Russian officials maintain that thousands of Russians, many of them from the Caucasus, have traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside the Islamic State group. On Wednesday, the deputy secretary of Russia's security council put the figure at "up to 2,000". Some jihadists from the region have already issued videos supporting al-Baghdadi. Their return, usually through ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... where they "pretend to be tourists who lost their documents" will "pose a problem," he was reported as saying by Interfax.
...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republiccurrently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... region in the Caucasus Emirate holy warrior group who was ousted after pledging allegiance to Baghdadi in December, becoming the first major leader to do so in the Caucasus. He is a "young man who represents what the insurgency is today" who has no serious religious education and is oriented towards jihad, said Varvara Parkhomenko, a consultant for the International Crisis Group (ICG) and an expert on the North Caucasus. Parkhomenko said the pledge is the latest event in the evolution of the Caucasus insurgency from a nationalist regional force to part of a global phenomenon where few members participated in the wars for Chechen independence over the last two decades. "When the insurgency was local, they had to take into account that they act on their own territory, brutal attacks were not supported by the population," she said. "Now if they get tied up to foreign structures, such methods may become relevant." "This is a very serious process and a challenge for Russia," she said. | ||
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