November 22, 2004
Russia Arrests Leader of al-Qaeda Linked Group
Russia's 9/11 was the
Beslan Massacre. You may recall that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a strong critic of the Bush administration during the build up to the Iraq war.
After Beslan, those criticisms stopped. America's new foreign policy must take this into account.
Mosnews via
Internat Haganah:
Russian law enforcement officials have detained the leader of a terrorist cell from the internatial Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, which intelligence has linked to Al Qaeda.
Alisher Usmanov, who headed a cell in central RussiaÂ’s Tatarstan, was arrested Wednesday, carrying explosives and Al Qaeda training manuals and flyers, the Lenta.ru news site reported, citing police sources in the republic.
The explosives indicate that the man, who was already suspected of organizing a number of terrorist attacks, including a deadly blast in Uzbekistan last March, was planning yet another attack, Interior Ministry officials told the Russian Information Agency Novosti.
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I see they let Allawi's cousin go. Was in the paper this a.m. That's good.
Posted by: Laura at November 22, 2004 08:59 AM (ptOpl)
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Not that I want to defend Hizb ut-Tahrir, but I would be very skeptical of any reports that they are linked to AQ. It's all very semantic, nitpicky, etc. But, the heart of the group is in the UK, and there is a large underground following in Central Asia.
Like I said, it's kind of nitpicky, but some members of the Uzbek, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz cells have gone on to become involved with Jamoat, which in turn is associated with the Islamic Movements of Uzbekistan and Turkestan, both of which have established links to AQ. Further, some of the Jamoat members went on an "academic exchange" to camps in Pakistan. So, a case could be made for links between HT and AQ, but they're not all that strong if they exist.
HT is kind of like the Central Asian Islamist's gateway drug. Like I mentioned above, people have migrated from it on to terrorist groups. HT itself though, has managed to stay away from it though. (But, damn I hate them! It's kind of mutual. They viewed me as a potential threat in the past for drawing much-needed attention to them.)
Posted by: Nathan at November 24, 2004 11:35 AM (ZuHXB)
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AHHHHHHHHHH that picture of So Dam Insaine is really scary
Posted by: BOb at May 17, 2005 01:42 PM (yR/Io)
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