Please don't kill me!
a man for 17 years for allegedly fighting with the Islamic State
...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 in Syria.
Gadzhi Magomedov was sentenced to 17 years in a strict-regime prison camp by the North Caucasus military court in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don.
The court ruling said that Magomedov illegally went to Syria and "after undergoing training decided to join in fighting against government troops on the side of gangs and Islamic State".
The court was told he traveled to Egypt ostensibly to study Islam and then crossed into Syria from
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, spending at least two months defending IS positions before returning to Egypt, the Kommersant daily reported.
Magomedov, who comes from the volatile mainly Muslim North Caucasus, underwent training "on the methods and skills of terrorist activity", court spokeswoman Emilia Khmara told news hounds outside the court.
Prosecutors had asked for Magomedov to serve 25 years.
Magomedov's sentence took into account a separate offense of taking part in mass disturbances in 2012 in his native 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...
, when stone-throwing protestors called for police to release suspected murderous Moslems, the court spokeswoman told TASS news agency.
Magomedov was detained in Egypt in October 2014 and deported to Russia.
Russia last week said it would detain a 19-year-old female philosophy student from Moscow until December 23 on suspicion of joining a terrorist organization after she traveled to Turkey without telling her family and was picked up in a town bordering Syria.
President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...has cited as a reason for Moscow's bombing campaign in Syria the thousands of fighters on the side of IS rebels who come from the ex-Soviet Union.
Putin has said that up to 7,000 people from Russia and its former Soviet neighbors may be fighting for IS and that he does not want to see them returning to their native countries en masse.