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Russia assists US in hunt for Bin Laden
Published: 28 May, 2010, 13:41
Edited: 31 May, 2010, 02:35
Osama Bin Laden
TAGS: Meeting, Chechnya, Russia, Politics, Terrorism, USA
Moscow is assisting the US in the search for Al-Qaeda head, Osama Bin Laden, and wants Washington’s help against Russia's most-wanted terrorist, Chechen militant Doku Umarov, a senior Russian official has said.
“I definitely know that we assisted and continue to provide concrete assistance in the search for and capture of Osama Bin Laden. Specifically in the search,” special presidential representative for international cooperation in the fight against terrorism and transnational organized crime Anatoly Safonov told Itar-Tass. No further details, however, were disclosed.
As for the assistance from the American side, Safonov said that the US had several times informed Moscow about terrorist acts planned on Russian soil. “That is a reality, which is not one-time and fragmentary. It is developing into an ongoing practice,” he said.
Safonov is currently in Washington co-chairing a meeting of the Russia-US working group on fighting terrorism.
The official said that Russia would like the US to include the self-proclaimed “Caucasus Emirate” led by Chechen militant Doku Umarov into the list of terrorist organizations. “The issue will be discussed on Friday,” Safonov added.
The warlord who calls himself “the Emir of the North Caucasus” claimed responsibility for the recent bombings in the Moscow Metro that killed 40 people and injured dozens more.
In April, US congressman Alcee Hastings urged the State Department to put Russia’s most-wanted terrorist, Umarov, on the international terror list and initiated a resolution on the issue.
“This is a low-profile organization that has continued to carry out high profile acts of terrorism, including the twin bombings in Moscow recently,” Hastings said in an interview with The Cable. “They've got a jihad against Russia and the United States. If that ain't a terrorist organization, I don't know what is,” Hastings, who is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said.
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Usually intelligence sharing is done in the most descreet manner. The public pronouncements of this sort sound almost like bragging. "Look how important I am!". Such lack of discretion is to be regretted. There are a lots of dangerous people in this world, and many of them are sworn enemies of one side, while being heros to others. Russia's announced participation in the war-on-terror sounds a bit too old fashioned. This belongs to Bush era, so it is slightly behind times. Also, the whole Afghanistan is a mess, a real US/UK tar baby that needs to be avoided if one can help it. As for the bad guys, they can always find their refuge in London. Starting from the Icelandic banker on Interpol list, to a range of Russian shady characters, and Tailand's Taksin. Russia has one problem with Afghanistan, and this is drugs. Drugs, drugs, drugs. The quantities produced and pushed accross Russia's territory are insane, and the number of people killed and disabled by these substances is staggering. Not to mention what happens to kids and extended family of those poisoned by these substances. This is the real battle, not some chase agaist assorted outlaws.
I thought Bin Laden and Taliban used to help US fight Russians in Afghanistan. Isn't that sound ridiculous? Who knows what they might ask later? who would be enemy and who the ally? Same thing happened also about Saddam.