БОЕВИКИ СЕВЕРНОГО КАВКАЗА ИНТЕГРИРУЮТСЯ В ИСЛАМСКОЕ ГОСУДАРСТВО
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The Caucasus Emirate of the Islamic State: The CE’s Full Integration into IS is Almost Complete
KartaImarataKavkaz
by Gordon M. Hahn
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"For nearly two decades, many in our Washington think tanks and US mainstream media maintained the myth that the Caucasus Emirate (CE) mujahedin and their predecessors had little or no relation to the global jihadi revolutionary movement. Just last year, Jamestown Foundation and Mairbek Vatchagaev, the former spokesman of the late Aslan Maskhadov, president (1995-2005) of the CE’s predecessor organization, the Chechen Republic of Ichkeriya or ChRI (1991-2007), claimed that “the North Caucasus resistance remains a separate movement that has not developed solidarity networks with the Middle Eastern radicals.”
In fact, the CE has been integrated deeply into the global jihad for about a decade with ties going back nearly two decades. Last week’s announcement that two of the last top-ranking CE amirs yet to take the loyalty ‘bayat’ to IS and al-Baghdadi had done so is just the final stage of a long integration process that now fully institutionalizes a longstanding de facto relationship already ongoing for many years. Refusal to recognize this fact led to the Boston Marathon attack and even played a role in the failure to uncover the 9/11 plot. Does more American blood need to be spilled before academics and DC think tankers speak the truth about the North Caucasus mujahedin?"
The Caucasus Emirate of the Islamic State: The CE’s Full Integration into IS is Almost Complete
KartaImarataKavkaz
by Gordon M. Hahn
<...>
"For nearly two decades, many in our Washington think tanks and US mainstream media maintained the myth that the Caucasus Emirate (CE) mujahedin and their predecessors had little or no relation to the global jihadi revolutionary movement. Just last year, Jamestown Foundation and Mairbek Vatchagaev, the former spokesman of the late Aslan Maskhadov, president (1995-2005) of the CE’s predecessor organization, the Chechen Republic of Ichkeriya or ChRI (1991-2007), claimed that “the North Caucasus resistance remains a separate movement that has not developed solidarity networks with the Middle Eastern radicals.”
In fact, the CE has been integrated deeply into the global jihad for about a decade with ties going back nearly two decades. Last week’s announcement that two of the last top-ranking CE amirs yet to take the loyalty ‘bayat’ to IS and al-Baghdadi had done so is just the final stage of a long integration process that now fully institutionalizes a longstanding de facto relationship already ongoing for many years. Refusal to recognize this fact led to the Boston Marathon attack and even played a role in the failure to uncover the 9/11 plot. Does more American blood need to be spilled before academics and DC think tankers speak the truth about the North Caucasus mujahedin?"