En grupp tjetjenska quislingar
och kriminella har sänts som
"bistånd" av president Putin
till Libanon.
Gruppen leds av den deserterade
muhajedinledaren Sulim Yamadaev,
som senast låg bakom en stor rån-
kupp mot en fabrik i S:t Petersburg...
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Deras officiella uppdrag är att
skydda ett kompani ryska
ingenjörssoldater, som ska
reparera broar i Libanon.
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Yamadaevs inofficiella uppdrag
är (enl Debka-file) helt annorlunda:
1. The Putin administration wants
to demonstrate to Russia’s teeming
Muslim community its willingness
to step into Middle East conflicts
– on behalf of the Muslim-Arab interest.
This straw in the wind indicates
the Kremlin’s orientation on
the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
2. Moscow is building another
bridge to Tehran through a
joint, potentially interactive
presence in Lebanon.
3. As a step to promote cooperation
with Hizballah, with whom the Chechens,
with their long record of extremist
Muslim terrorist action against
the Russian army, have much
in common – in contrast to
the European contingents of UNIFIL.
4. The Russian Chechen unit’s
cooperation with Hizballah in t
he parts of Lebanon under its
control will pave the way for a
Russian Muslim military presence
north of Israel which is independent
of the UN and not bound
by accords to which Israel is a party.
