Chechnya: US Continues To Promote 'Emirate Of Ichkeria'
Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:43 pm (PST)
From: "Coord. Naz. per la Jugoslavia"Date: November 4, 2007 9:20:22 PM GMT+01:00Subject: [JUGOINFO] Visnjica broj 691AMICHETTI DEGLI USA PROCLAMANO UN "EMIRATO" IN CECENIA
Radio Free Europe On Chechnya
Posted by: "Rick Rozoff"Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:21 pm (PST)
http://www.rferl.org/newsline/1-rus.asp[For anyone who can still doubt Washington's role indestabilizing the Caucasus, North and South]Radio Free Europe/Radio LibertyOctober 30, 2007CHECHEN PRESIDENT DECLARES SELF NORTH CAUCASUS AMIRThe website chechenews.com posted on October 28 astatement it received by e-mail, signed by Chechen***President*** and ***resistance commander*** DokuUmarov, in which Umarov confirms that he hasproclaimed himself amir of a North Caucasus Islamicstate, the precise extent of which he declines tospecify.London-based ChRI ***Foreign Minister*** AkhmedZakayev expressed concern one week earlier that Umarovwould issue such a proclamation under pressure fromradical elements within the resistance who, Zakayevclaimed, have been suborned by the FSB, which intendsto retaliate with harsh reprisals across the NorthCaucasus. [That is, London-based 'political refugee'Zakayev is blaming the Russian Federal SecurityBureau, etc.]The prospect that Umarov would declare a NorthCaucasus emirate has elicited concern among***representatives of the ChRI government in exile***,who warned that doing so would violate the***constitution*** and undermine the ***legal statusof the ChRI***.Two prominent Chechen field commanders, Isa Munayevand Sultan Arsayev, have issued statements publiclysiding with Zakayev, thereby implicitly distancingthemselves from Umarov. LF