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>Why Russia? Your question seems to indicate the belief in a global terrorist organization. I would recommend the BBC documentary "Power of nightmares" to cle
by loewenskind 16y ago
>Why Russia?
Your question seems to indicate the belief in a global terrorist organization. I would recommend the BBC documentary "Power of nightmares" to clear up this misunderstanding.
In short, Al Queida is a name we made up and there is no global terrorist organization. There are and were a lot of isolated terrorist groups but they don't have some common goal. They're as likely to fight each other as anyone else. The terrorist groups that do exist attack their own enemies (e.g. IRA attacked England, Chechen separatist attack Russia, etc.).
- jacquesm 16y agoHowever they do seem to offer mutual logistical and training support.
- loewenskind 16y agoHas anyone from Chechnya ever met Osama Bin Laden or any of his people?
- jacquesm 16y agohttp://www.southasiaanalysis.org/%5Cpapers38%5Cpaper3742.html http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/%5Cpapers38%5Cpaper3742.htm... Specifically points 7,8 and 9.
- loewenskind 16y agoThanks for the link, but these points you highlighted set off a lot of bogosity alarms. To wit: >allegations of Chechen links with Al Qaeda Well, since Al Qaeda is a made up name what do they mean with this? Are they calling any Islamic group that provides financial aid to groups that are implicated in terrorist activities "Al Qaeda"? >is influenced by the fact that no Chechens were captured by the US forces in Afghanistan "Terrorists" captured in the first probes into Afghanistan were, in all likelihood, not terrorists at all. Locals were paid to brings some terrorists so they brought some people and said they were terrorists. The biggest "evidence" this site seems to have is that some Islamic charity groups gave money to the Chechen rebels. Isn't it just as likely that an Islamic group would give money to help out another Islamic group they see as being oppressed? Assuming that their only possible intention could be to finance terrorism is quite a leap.