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Terrorists trained in Georgia to attack Russia – official
Published: 15 January, 2010, 13:17
Edited: 06 September, 2010, 18:53
TAGS: Crime, Religion, Scandal, Chechnya, Georgia, Russia, Ossetian War, Terrorism
Terrorist groups are being trained in Georgia to launch attacks in Russia’s North Caucasian and southern regions, Russia's Deputy Interior Minister Arkady Yedelev said.
According to the official, the groups are being trained by foreign instructors at Georgian military bases. The ministry official didn’t clarify what nationality the instructors were. Nor did he accuse the Georgian government of being involved in the issue.
Yedelev said North Ossetia, Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachayevo-Cherkessia are being targeted by militants for “destabilization,” RIA Novosti reported.
He was speaking Thursday at a session devoted to the results of the North Ossetian Interior Ministry's work in the republic's capital Vladikavkaz. Yedelev called on local law enforcement agencies “to seriously take into account the increasing activity of structures and groups, including radical religious ones.”
"Islamic clergymen who speak against religious extremism are now receiving more threats," he said. The deputy minister warned that the danger of attacks on imams would increase.
The threat of international terrorism is still present in Russia’s South, Yedelev said.
“Last year the North Caucasus region saw a 19% increase in the number of terrorism-related crimes, including bombings and armed attacks, or 637 such crimes," he said. In North Ossetia alone, there were five attacks on representatives of law enforcement agencies.
It is not the first time that Russia has voiced its concerns over Georgia’s link with militants. In autumn 2009, Aleksandr Bortnikov, head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said Georgian special services were helping Al Qaeda members to wage terrorism in Russia’s southern regions.
Relations between Moscow and Tbilisi have been tense since August 2008 when Georgia attacked South Ossetia and Russia had to react to the aggression to protect citizens of the breakaway republic, many of whom held Russian citizenship. (South Ossetia unilaterally declared independence after the civil war in Georgia in 1991).
Following the five-day war, Russia officially recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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State terrorism and genocide of indigenous people is the shape of Russian imperialism. Basayev and his men who participated in military actions in Abkhazia was trained by Russian Special Forces.
Russia stays were it is. Georgian Task Forces cleaned everything in the Pankisi and Kodori valley and drove back the remaining Chechens into Russia in 2007. Now that there may are terroristic cells in Georgia .... What can I say ? There are plenty in Russia, there are plenty in the US, there are plenty in Germany. Noone is able to do anything against these fanatic mass murderers, especially such dumb governments like the Russian one. Whenever they try to eliminate a cell, the response costs them dozens of officials, administrations and Special Forces servicemen. They even go out and dare ambushing Russian troops in front of citizens right in the mid of a city center and totally destroying them without beeing caught or killed. Security in Russia is vastly below zero and the "authorities" there should rather think about doing anything against that catastrophy than trying to search for alternate enemys, in this case Georgia, which had it's own problems with terrorists like Chechens and Russians.