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Russia angry at American protection of Chechen Jihadist
Russia outraged at US giving floor to a suspected militant
Russia was outraged to learn that a suspected Russian militant and former aide to international terrorist Shamil Basayev, killed in 2006, Ilyas Akhmadov, was invited as a guest speaker for a panel discussion at the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, the US, an official spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday.
The reaction of Russia is easy to understand. A world-class university gave the floor to the former militant, who is on international wanted list. Unfortunately, Akhamdov still has refugee status in the US. By the way, the US state-owned National Endowment for Democracy recently organized presentation of his book in Washington. And this information cannot but evoke bewilderment and disappointment.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that such events involving militants play into the hands of other extremists worldwide, inspiring them to carry out new attacks against civilians, like the one that took the lives of 36 people at Moscow Domodedovo airport on January 29. Dozens more people were injured in the attack, and many still remain on hospitals.
There is also one more militant who has been enjoying support in the US – Doku Umarov, who claimed responsibility for the Domodedovo blast. In November 2010 Russia submitted a proposal to the UN Security Council commission number 1267, which deals with sanctions against Al-Qaeda and Taliban, as well as against people closely linked to these extremist groups, to place Umarov on the UN Security Council list of the most wanted terrorists. Moscow insists that Umarov and his movement “The Caucasus Emirate” should be included in the list.
However, the US claims that Russia did not provide enough evidence of Umarov`s contacts with Al-Qaeda and Taliban. This does not sound convincing because last year the US Department of State did place Doku Umarov in the national list of the most dangerous international terrorists.
This position of the US authorities looks particularly strange amid President Barack Obama`s recent announcement that ‘the US is ready to “join Russia in the war against those who use terrorism for political reasons”. And aren’t Doku Umarov and Ilyas Akhmedov perfectly fit into this description? If so, the White House is playing a double game again, and its anti-terrorism declarations have to do more with the life of US citizens rather than international efforts to fight extremism.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/02/18/44995748.html
Russia was outraged to learn that a suspected Russian militant and former aide to international terrorist Shamil Basayev, killed in 2006, Ilyas Akhmadov, was invited as a guest speaker for a panel discussion at the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, the US, an official spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday.
The reaction of Russia is easy to understand. A world-class university gave the floor to the former militant, who is on international wanted list. Unfortunately, Akhamdov still has refugee status in the US. By the way, the US state-owned National Endowment for Democracy recently organized presentation of his book in Washington. And this information cannot but evoke bewilderment and disappointment.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that such events involving militants play into the hands of other extremists worldwide, inspiring them to carry out new attacks against civilians, like the one that took the lives of 36 people at Moscow Domodedovo airport on January 29. Dozens more people were injured in the attack, and many still remain on hospitals.
There is also one more militant who has been enjoying support in the US – Doku Umarov, who claimed responsibility for the Domodedovo blast. In November 2010 Russia submitted a proposal to the UN Security Council commission number 1267, which deals with sanctions against Al-Qaeda and Taliban, as well as against people closely linked to these extremist groups, to place Umarov on the UN Security Council list of the most wanted terrorists. Moscow insists that Umarov and his movement “The Caucasus Emirate” should be included in the list.
However, the US claims that Russia did not provide enough evidence of Umarov`s contacts with Al-Qaeda and Taliban. This does not sound convincing because last year the US Department of State did place Doku Umarov in the national list of the most dangerous international terrorists.
This position of the US authorities looks particularly strange amid President Barack Obama`s recent announcement that ‘the US is ready to “join Russia in the war against those who use terrorism for political reasons”. And aren’t Doku Umarov and Ilyas Akhmedov perfectly fit into this description? If so, the White House is playing a double game again, and its anti-terrorism declarations have to do more with the life of US citizens rather than international efforts to fight extremism.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/02/18/44995748.html