AZERBAIJANI-CHECHEN TANDEM CONTINUES TO GROW STRONGER
Among the soldiers “visiting” the Pankissi gorge there were lots of Azerbaijanis.
Among the soldiers arrested on the territory of Ingushetia there are lots of persons with Azerbaijani passports. One of the 4 bandits seized by the Georgian militarists in the Pankissi gorge, was an Azerbaijani citizen. Twenty years old Chingiz Aslan oghli Askerov marched into the troop to participate in the war against Russians in summer last year. During this period he managed to get the necessary training.
Meanwhile, many of his partners managed to disappear with the help of Azerbaijanis. The representative of the regional operative staff of the armed forces of Russia, Ilya Shabalkin informed recently that part of the soldiers “visiting” Pankissi later moved to Azerbaijan and Turkey. This was revealed after the first interrogation of the soldiers of the troop of Gelayev on the territory of Ingushetia. According to General Shabalkin, bandits, most of them foreign citizens, were conveyed to these countries on special buses. It’s interesting that all of them had entry visas.
It’s not difficult to understand, who has provided them with visas, if taking into account the fact that representatives of extremist structures being controlled from Chechnya and Arabian countries operate in Baku almost legally. By the way, the Azerbaijani route of conveying the bandits to Chechnya and vice versa works successfully for many years. The information that Osama Bin Laden has also visited Azerbaijan on his way to Chechnya was not denied up to now. We’ll remind that this version was actively developed by the British newspaper “Daily Telegraph” when Mohammad Akrami, the cook of the founder of the “Al Qaid”, gave his witness. The “New York Times” also suggested search for the traces of the “terrorist number one” in Azerbaijan. Besides, the famous Arab terrorist Khattab is also acquainted with the Azerbaijani hospitality. The RTR Russian TV company informed that Khattab has stayed in Azerbaijan while moving to Pakistan and then to the Afgan city of Kunduz via territory of that country.
The Azerbaijanis assist to the bandits fighting in Chehnya not only indirectly but also directly. In December last year the Deputy of the Russian parliament Victor Ilyukhin made a sensational statement at the press conference held in Moscow saying that he had information confirming the participation of Azerbaijan in the supply of arms to Chechen soldiers. This way the Azerbaijanis, most probably, were repaying for the support shown by the Chechens. In August the Moscow “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, quoting the “Washington ProFile” agency informed that chechens were buying missiles not only for themselves but also for their Azerbaijani “collegues”. Those arms helped them a lot while occupying the city of Horadiz.
Apart from the mutual supplies of arms and techniques, it is known that hundreds, even thousands of Azerbaijanis were fighting and are up to now fighting in Chechnya. It is being done openly, because the Azerbaijani authorities, in fact, encourage the participation of their compatriots in the war against Russians. For example, the former adviser to the President Heydar Aliyev, Vafa Guluzade, spoke in support of Azerbaijani citizens fighting in Chechnya. “Each Azeri and each Muslim has the right to fight for the idea, for Islam. Being trained appropriately, he can go to Chechnya or another country,” Guluzade said in an interview with Baku journalists in December last year.
After such sincerity, the fact that the Chechen soldiers assure the Azerbaijani authorities in their readiness to participate in the new military campaign against the Armenians of Karabakh is not surprising. One of the main ideologists of Chechen soldiers Movladi Udugov said once that “the Chechen soldiers are ready to start a campaign on reestablishment of Muslim territories of the Transaucasus”. “Karabakh is the second issue, after the liberation of Dagestan, on the agenda of many Islamic military groups,” the field commander noted. And below is a quotation from the letter of Shamil Basayev, the leader of Chechen mojaheddins, addressed to the President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev, published on the site of the “Caucasus Centre” in the Internet: “We would like to assure the Azerbaijani President and all the Azerbaijani people that we have serious intentions to help the Muslim population of Azerbaijan after we will defeat the Russian aggressors. And we have no doubts that this day is not far sway”. This is the very Basayev which in an interview to the ANS TV company of Azerbaijan said: “in 1993 I came with my troops to fight in Karabakh not for money but for the idea of Jihad”. The very Basayev, who immediately after the second struggle against Karabakh Armenians run away, leaving tens of his killed supporters in the field.
Then, in 1993, nobody in the world understood that the partnership between Azerbaijan and Chechens, growing stronger, might have extremely dangerous consequences for all the countries of the region. Today not only in Russia but also in Georgia they suffer from the results of the Azerbaijani-Chechen tandem.
It’s not difficult to understand, who has provided them with visas, if taking into account the fact that representatives of extremist structures being controlled from Chechnya and Arabian countries operate in Baku almost legally. By the way, the Azerbaijani route of conveying the bandits to Chechnya and vice versa works successfully for many years. The information that Osama Bin Laden has also visited Azerbaijan on his way to Chechnya was not denied up to now. We’ll remind that this version was actively developed by the British newspaper “Daily Telegraph” when Mohammad Akrami, the cook of the founder of the “Al Qaid”, gave his witness. The “New York Times” also suggested search for the traces of the “terrorist number one” in Azerbaijan. Besides, the famous Arab terrorist Khattab is also acquainted with the Azerbaijani hospitality. The RTR Russian TV company informed that Khattab has stayed in Azerbaijan while moving to Pakistan and then to the Afgan city of Kunduz via territory of that country.
The Azerbaijanis assist to the bandits fighting in Chehnya not only indirectly but also directly. In December last year the Deputy of the Russian parliament Victor Ilyukhin made a sensational statement at the press conference held in Moscow saying that he had information confirming the participation of Azerbaijan in the supply of arms to Chechen soldiers. This way the Azerbaijanis, most probably, were repaying for the support shown by the Chechens. In August the Moscow “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, quoting the “Washington ProFile” agency informed that chechens were buying missiles not only for themselves but also for their Azerbaijani “collegues”. Those arms helped them a lot while occupying the city of Horadiz.
Apart from the mutual supplies of arms and techniques, it is known that hundreds, even thousands of Azerbaijanis were fighting and are up to now fighting in Chechnya. It is being done openly, because the Azerbaijani authorities, in fact, encourage the participation of their compatriots in the war against Russians. For example, the former adviser to the President Heydar Aliyev, Vafa Guluzade, spoke in support of Azerbaijani citizens fighting in Chechnya. “Each Azeri and each Muslim has the right to fight for the idea, for Islam. Being trained appropriately, he can go to Chechnya or another country,” Guluzade said in an interview with Baku journalists in December last year.
After such sincerity, the fact that the Chechen soldiers assure the Azerbaijani authorities in their readiness to participate in the new military campaign against the Armenians of Karabakh is not surprising. One of the main ideologists of Chechen soldiers Movladi Udugov said once that “the Chechen soldiers are ready to start a campaign on reestablishment of Muslim territories of the Transaucasus”. “Karabakh is the second issue, after the liberation of Dagestan, on the agenda of many Islamic military groups,” the field commander noted. And below is a quotation from the letter of Shamil Basayev, the leader of Chechen mojaheddins, addressed to the President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev, published on the site of the “Caucasus Centre” in the Internet: “We would like to assure the Azerbaijani President and all the Azerbaijani people that we have serious intentions to help the Muslim population of Azerbaijan after we will defeat the Russian aggressors. And we have no doubts that this day is not far sway”. This is the very Basayev which in an interview to the ANS TV company of Azerbaijan said: “in 1993 I came with my troops to fight in Karabakh not for money but for the idea of Jihad”. The very Basayev, who immediately after the second struggle against Karabakh Armenians run away, leaving tens of his killed supporters in the field.
Then, in 1993, nobody in the world understood that the partnership between Azerbaijan and Chechens, growing stronger, might have extremely dangerous consequences for all the countries of the region. Today not only in Russia but also in Georgia they suffer from the results of the Azerbaijani-Chechen tandem.
