ISLAM, ISLAMISM AND POLITICS IN EURASIA REPORT, No.12, April 2010
by Gordon M. Hahn
Monterey Institute of International Studies
March
2010 saw both triumph and tragedy in Russia’s was against jihadi
terrorism. The first weeks of
March saw Russian federal and local Caucasus security agencies score a series
of major victories in the war against jihadism and the Caucasus Emirate (CE)
mujahedin. As reported in IIPER,
No. 10, on March 3rd they killed the CE’s leading operative Said Abu Saad
Buryatskii (Aleksandr Tikhomirov) along with seven other mujahedin. Approximately another 10 were
captured. It was also reported
that surrounded by FSB commandos Buryatskii bade farewell to his fellow
mujahedin and spent his last minutes true to form: filming a farewell sermon on
his cell phone.[1] No such video has yet to appear on the
CE sites.
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