Ideological Shift among North-Caucasian Bandits?

I visited the ZOO and found the fool Robert linking to this...

Reuters reports that Dokku Umarov stepped down and made way for a new Emir Aslambek Vadalov. Akhmed Zakayev, the largely irrelevant, Chechen representative in London comments on the man:

'I know him well. He went through both wars,' Zakayev, who fought against Moscow as a senior commander in two wars in the 1990s, told Reuters.

'Our strategy is that trying to defeat Russia through military means is absurd."

Zakayev said the new leadership wanted to focus on the possibility of talks with Moscow but did not elaborate. He added: 'The only thing that we don't accept ... is violence against civilians. (We have always) condemned acts of terror.'

Who is we? Has Zakayev suddenly become a spokesman for the Emirate? 

Moscow fought two wars against separatists and eventually tamed Chechnya by allowing rebels from a clan that switched sides to take over the local government. But the insurgency is on the rise again, fuelled by poverty and corruption.

Zakayev hasn't visited Grozny for a long time, one reasons why the insurgency had been tamed was because there is some semblance of peace and prosperity. Chechens are thinking twice about abandoning comfort of their homes in order to live in the woods and munch boiled frogs for dinner. And we should ask Zakayev, what insurgency is on the rise? Buryatskiy and Magas are down, and with them countless others.

The shift away from Islamist radicalism, if confirmed by action on the ground, could present new complications for Moscow because of the moderate wing's friendlier image in the West. Politicians in Europe and the United States condemn rebel violence but many are sympathetic to Chechens' independence cause. The West is also critical of Moscow's patchy human rights record and heavy-handed tactics in the region. Russia says the rebel movement is financed by international militant groups but analysts and rights groups are sceptical. Zakayev said Umarov, with his radical Islamist views, was manipulated by Moscow to reinforce that image, saying he was affectively toppled by those who disagreed with him.

We all know that there are certain types in the West who would even support an Indigenous Movement for Independent Chukotka. I also know that those so called 'analysts' and 'rights groups' are not always correct and disinterested. 

But that Umarov was manipulated from Moscow is real news to me. Mind you, Zakayev used to spread that it were the Russian secret services that were behind 9/11. When I asked him about it, he answered that he has no evidence to back up his claims. I guess it is the same with this meaningless rant.

What I'm missing are the reasons why Umarov stepped down. I do not know about this Vadalov, so I cannot say if he is a moderate or not, but I suspect that quarrel over the extremity of actions was not behind this power shift.

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[jack]

"Zakayev said the new leadership wanted to focus on the possibility of talks with Moscow but did not elaborate. He added: 'The only thing that we don't accept ... is violence against civilians. (We have always) condemned acts of terror."

Except when Basayeav and Khattab invaded Dagestan and other terrorist attacks which like Kosovo was the invitation for the second Chechen war, or the fact that the moderate wing planned the Nord Ost attack financed by Babar Ahmed who is Khattabs personal media propagandist and financier and with Umarov and Basayev, Mashadov was involved in the raids in Ingushetia in July of 2004 with a machete massacre of about 35 unarmed villagers which he took credit for was the precursor for the Beslan attack.

"Zakayev said the new leadership wanted to focus on the possibility of talks with Moscow but did not elaborate. He added: 'The only thing that we don't accept ... is violence against civilians. (We have always) condemned acts of terror."

Except when Basayeav and Khattab invaded Dagestan and other terrorist attacks which like Kosovo was the invitation for the second Chechen war, or the fact that the moderate wing planned the Nord Ost attack financed by Babar Ahmed who is Khattabs personal media propagandist and financier and with Umarov and Basayev, Mashadov was involved in the raids in Ingushetia in July of 2004 with a machete massacre of about 35 unarmed villagers which he took credit for was the precursor for the Beslan attack.

“Akhmadov was Chechnya's foreign minister in 1999 when Basayev invaded Dagestan. After Basayev's invasion, Putin called upon Aslan Maskhadov to extradite Basayev, close his terrorist training camps, and renounce terrorism. Those are essentially the same three conditions that President Bush gave the Taliban in the autumn of 2001. Both the Chechen foreign minister, and the Taliban foreign minister refused those conditions. Yet the Taliban foreign minister is currently hiding in a cave, and the Chechen foreign minister is working in his office at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington. The only thing that the two of them have in common is that, in both cases, the American taxpayer has picked up the tab. If I were an American ally, I would find that disconcerting.”

If this retarded criminal Russian state got its finger out of its ass and started investigating they could easily expose the links to international terrorism instead of sabotaging any information outlet that tries to expose this.

What do you mean when you asked him about it? When/where was this?

[jack]

Actually now he says that he has revoked his resignation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100804/wl_afp/russiaunrestchechnyaumarov

Good cop, bad cop routine.

I believe that the Russia secret service and government is supporting Umarov and the whole separatist regime it is the only logical conclusion why they won’t expose there links to Islamic terrorism and western intelligence or debunked the most bogus human rights lie.

While the Beslan hostage siege was taking place he was quite.

The Daily Mirror actually interviewed him after Beslan where he claimed it was orchestrated by Russian security services called Devil in a grey suit which he sued the newspaper who was forced tom publish a retraction.

[Misha]

"Zoo" or freak show, inclusive of hypocritically tolerated bigotry?

A bit disappointed.