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ISIS GROOMS CHECHEN FIGHTERS AGAINST PUTIN
09:20 * 10.10.14
When the Islamic State commander known as "Omar the Chechen" called
to tell his father they'd routed the Iraqi army and taken the city
of Mosul, he added a stark message: Russia would be next, Bloomberg
reported.
"He said 'don't worry dad, I'll come home and show the Russians,'"
Temur Batirashvili said from his home in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge,
on the border with the Russian region of Chechnya. "I have many
thousands following me now and I'll get more. We'll have our revenge
against Russia."
As the US and European countries assess the risk of home-grown
jihadists returning to stage attacks on their native countries, the
turmoil in the Middle East also reverberates in the Caucasus. The
region wedged between Russia, Iran and Turkey is an intricate web of
tensions that's erupted into violence in the past three decades in
hot spots from Chechnya to Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia.
Armenian News - Tert.am
09:20 * 10.10.14
When the Islamic State commander known as "Omar the Chechen" called
to tell his father they'd routed the Iraqi army and taken the city
of Mosul, he added a stark message: Russia would be next, Bloomberg
reported.
"He said 'don't worry dad, I'll come home and show the Russians,'"
Temur Batirashvili said from his home in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge,
on the border with the Russian region of Chechnya. "I have many
thousands following me now and I'll get more. We'll have our revenge
against Russia."
As the US and European countries assess the risk of home-grown
jihadists returning to stage attacks on their native countries, the
turmoil in the Middle East also reverberates in the Caucasus. The
region wedged between Russia, Iran and Turkey is an intricate web of
tensions that's erupted into violence in the past three decades in
hot spots from Chechnya to Nagorno-Karabakh and Georgia.
Armenian News - Tert.am