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Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:51:54 -0000
Subject: [PropagandaMatrix.com] CHECHNYA & THE CIA
Chechnya & the CIA
by Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montréal
Posted at globalresearch.ca 12 September 2001
Original Link http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html
With regard to Chechnya, the main rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Al
Khattab were trained and indoctrinated in CIA sponsored camps in
Afghanistan and Pakistan.
According to Yossef Bodansky, director of the U.S. Congress's Task
Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, the war in Chechnya
had been planned during a secret summit of HizbAllah International
held in 1996 in Mogadishu, Somalia.
The summit, was attended by Osama bin Laden and high-ranking Iranian
and Pakistani intelligence officers. In this regard, the involvement
of Pakistan's ISI in Chechnya "goes far beyond supplying the Chechens
with weapons and expertise: the ISI and its radical Islamic proxies
are actually calling the shots in this war".
Russia's main pipeline route transits through Chechnya and Dagestan.
Despite Washington's perfunctory condemnation of Islamic terrorism,
the indirect beneficiaries of the Chechen war are the Anglo-American
oil conglomerates which are vying for control over oil resources and
pipeline corridors out of the Caspian Sea basin.
The two main Chechen rebel armies (respectively led by Commander
Shamil Basayev and Emir Khattab) estimated at 35,000 strong were
supported by Pakistan's ISI, which also played a key role in
organizing and training the Chechen rebel army:
[In 1994] the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence arranged for
Basayev and his trusted lieutenants to undergo intensive Islamic
indoctrination and training in guerrilla warfare in the Khost
province of Afghanistan at Amir Muawia camp, set up in the early
1980s by the CIA and ISI and run by famous Afghani warlord Gulbuddin
Hekmatyar. In July 1994, upon graduating from Amir Muawia, Basayev
was transferred to Markaz-i-Dawar camp in Pakistan to undergo
training in advanced guerrilla tactics.
In Pakistan, Basayev met the highest ranking Pakistani military and
intelligence officers: Minister of Defense General Aftab Shahban
Mirani, Minister of Interior General Naserullah Babar, and the head
of the ISI branch in charge of supporting Islamic causes, General
Javed Ashraf, (all now retired). High-level connections soon proved
very useful to Basayev.
Following his training and indoctrination stint, Basayev was assigned
to lead the assault against Russian federal troops in the first
Chechen war in 1995. His organization had also developed extensive
links to criminal syndicates in Moscow as well as ties to Albanian
organized crime and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). In 1997-98,
according to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) "Chechen
warlords started buying up real estate in Kosovo... through several
real estate firms registered as a cover in Yugoslavia" 24
Basayev's organisation has also been involved in a number of rackets
including narcotics, illegal tapping and sabotage of Russia's oil
pipelines, kidnapping, prostitution, trade in counterfeit dollars and
the smuggling of nuclear materials (See Mafia linked to Albania's
collapsed pyramids, 25 Alongside the extensive laundering of drug
money, the proceeds of various illicit activities have been funneled
towards the recruitment of mercenaries and the purchase of weapons.
During his training in Afghanistan, Shamil Basayev linked up with
Saudi born veteran Mujahideen Commander "Al Khattab" who had fought
as a volunteer in Afghanistan. Barely a few months after Basayev's
return to Grozny, Khattab was invited (early 1995) to set up an army
base in Chechnya for the training of Mujahideen fighters. According
to the BBC, Khattab's posting to Chechnya had been "arranged through
the Saudi-Arabian based [International] Islamic Relief Organisation,
a militant religious organisation, funded by mosques and rich
individuals which channeled funds into Chechnya".26
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