Dramatic photos of perceived anti-Muslim, Western actions are provoking Muslims worldwide. "A Russian-speaking Chechen, an Arabic-speaking Yemeni, and a Malay-speaking Thai--Muslims all--will find the glue of Islam-defending unity in the anti-Americanism inspired by such photos, as will many Muslims born in the United States and Europe" (Hell, p. 153). "Moscow puts heavy culpability on Saudi Arabia and other Arabian Peninsula states for funding Islamist insurgents organizations, allowing their nationals to fight alongside the Chechens and others in the region, and sending Islamist NGOs to the North Caucasus to inculcate Wahhabism among the inhabitants" (Marching, p. 169). "Chechnya is included to warn those in the West who believe the Islamist threat would dissipate if Bin Laden is captured or killed." Since 2002, after the Russians killed the leading Islamist Ibn-al-Khattab, the "pace and lethality" of attacks increased (Hubris, p. 86).
The seed money of major North Caucasus or Chechen terrorist groups such as the Caucasus Emirate, the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (IIPB), the Special Purpose Islamic Regiment (SPIR) and the Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs (RSRSBCM) can all be traced back to Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
Chechnya
Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq by Michael Scheuer, pp. xvi, 150, 153, 168-169, 230, 231, 278n.
Osama Bin Laden by Michael Scheuer, pp. 67, 73, 180
Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer, pp. 12, 86, 92-93, 94, 95, 96-97, 99, 225
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