And yet, Alph, 9/11 created a lot of American
WIDOWS!! a few of whom were actually
against the Iraq war. What's up with that??
David Warren points out:
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Half the terrorist corpses so far identified were Arabs, and the rest other international Jihadis, plus a few locally-recruited Ossetes.
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Arabs and internationals. Put that in your root causes computer and see what it comes up with. Here's what Warren comes up with:
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What has developed in Chechnya today, however, and is now spreading through other Russian-ruled, Muslim territories, is something new. The background history only partially explains it: the real source of disturbance is now outside. There were large numbers of Chechen and other "ex-Soviet Muslim" Jihadis in the training camps of Afghanistan, before the Americans cleaned them out; and many of these have since washed up in Iraq, Yemen, even Indonesia. Reciprocally, the "Afghan Arabs", mixed with others coming directly from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, have taken over the Chechen "independence" movement.
The several irruptions of full-blown war in Chechnya during the last decade -- suppressed by the Russians only when they descended to something like savagery -- were themselves triggered by incidents in which international terrorists played a prominent part. Indeed, President Putin is hoarse from trying to explain this to European and American "human rights" advocates, who blame Russia for creating its Chechen enemies, the way they blame America for somehow creating its enemies in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Most worrying: what the Jihadis have achieved in Chechnya is now being taken as a model for how to succeed everywhere. It is what they are attempting in the Sunni Triangle of Iraq: to use terror as the yeast with which to raise civil war.
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