Russian and Western media paid attention to the warning of Amir Sayfullah posted on November 16, only after it was confirmed in a news report from Kavkaz Center dated November 17 that a forthcoming large-scale military operation had been discussed at a meeting with the Chechen President Dokku Umarov.
Basically, there is no defense now in the coverage of the Caucasus Jihad by Russia and the West.
Both wage a global war against Islam.
The AP reported that an Islamic Mujahideen commander had warned of attacks against Russian government officials and their puppets in the Caucasus in a video posted on the Internet, saying Muslims who cooperate with the Russian invaders would be first to be targeted.
Amir Sayfullah, the nom de guerre of Anzor Astemirov, heads the Caucasus Front' Kabardino-Balkarian Sector in the Russian-held Caucasian Mislim state Kabardino-Balkariya, the AP reported.
Amir Sayfullah said that Muslims across Russian-held Caucasian Muslim states had united to rise up against Russia, which was trying to "eradicate Islam ... and lead our children away from their faith," and said the Mujahideen numbers were growing.
He said the Mujahideen planned "large-scale operations" soon in Kabardino-Balkaria.
"For some time we have been indulgent toward anyone who considered himself a Muslim, but now everything will be different," Amir Sayfullah warned on the video, posted this week on Google Video and the Kavkaz-Center Web site, a voice for Chechen Mujahideen, the AP reported. "Now we will look at who is a Muslim in deed and not (just) in word," Amir Sayfullah said.
He said Mujahideen would target Muslim "clerics" who cooperate with the invaders' and puppets' governments, bureaucrats and businessmen.
Amir Sayfullah has been one of the masterminds behind a brilliant military attack against a Russian "drug agency office" in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkariya, in December 2004, where the Mujahideen confiscated huge arsenal of weapons, and a bold daytime raid by Mujahideen on the city of Nalchik on October 13, 2005.
The raid targeted as many as 20 of the city's Russian army, FSB and puppet police headquarters.
217 Mujahideen took part in the raid. Approximately 140 Russian and puppet troops and policemen were killed and more than 160 wounded in this large-scale military operation, according to official Chechen Republic of Ichkeria's tallies.
After successfully completing their combat tasks, the main forces of the Mujahideen withdrew from the city at 11.15 local time. In all, 37 Mujahideen martyred in the assault on the city (Shahideen, insha Allah).
The later martyred Amir Addallah Shamil Abu Indris (Shamil Basayev), Shaheed, insha Allah, said then in a special statement that that Russians had gotten wind of the forthcoming Mujahideen military operation in Nalchik and moved tank convoys in the city on October 11-12, 2005. But at the Shura Council meeting the Mujahideen decided to continue with the operation as planned.
The statement from Amir Sayfullah posted on November 16, 2006, has been also discussed a in special program by Radio Liberty, a Russian-language US propaganda tool based in Prague.
The statement received wide coverage in Russian media. Although no transcipt of the statement has been up to now published by any Chechen Web site, the Russians widely quoted the statement from their own transcripts it in their news reports.
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