Documents - Chechnya
| [8/17/08] | Chechen Mujahideen Head Denies Mujahideen Involvement in Georgia Conflict The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqué issued by Shamsuddin Batukaev, the Wakil (Head) of the Caucasus Emirate, in which he commented on "widely replicated reports that ‘Chechen units and volunteers from Chechnya’ are participating on Russian side in war against Georgia.” He acknowledged that a small number of "gangs of apostate-mercenaries of ethnic Chechens or representatives of other nationalities of the Caucasus...are members of Russian occupation forces" but "have nothing to do with the Armed Forces of the Caucasus Emirate" and "are the enemies of the Caucasus Emirate like [the] Russian invaders." |
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| [8/17/08] | Chechen Mujahideen Warned of Russian Invasion of Georgia The NEFA Foundation has obtained a July 5, 2008 report from the Chechen mujahideen press agency, which stated that "the intelligence service (Mukhabarat) of the Caucasus Emirate...received...information about [an] upcoming military operation that Russia will conduct against Georgia.” Further, "operative information points at the fact that the main objective of the war operation is to seize the Kodori Gorge and to optimally weaken Saakashvili's regime or to overthrow Georgian President Saakashvili.” The report continued, "the operation will have the nature of blitzkrieg. Offensive operations involving forcing the Georgian troops out of the Kodori Gorge (Upper Abkhazia) are supposed to be completed within 7 to 10 days since the start of the operation.” |
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