8 May 2009

According to sources in the Provinces of Nokhchicho (AKA Ichkeria/Chechnya) and Ghalghaycho (AKA Ingushetia) of the Caucasus Emirate, on the night of Thursday, 12 Jumada Al-'Awwal 1430 (7 May 2009), a unit of Mujahideen entered the villages of Muzhichi and Arshty, Ingushetia Province. Next day morning the combat occurred near the village of Bamut, Chechnya Province.  

The sources reported that the Mujahideen consisted of 100 to 150 fighters had conducted special measures in the specified settlements to reveal the supporters of the infidels and the most active apostates, who participating in a war against Islam.  

Mujahideen were in the villages till dawn and then left to their operative bases in the forest.  

The precise data on the results of operation of the Mujahideen is unknown. According to some reports 2 apostates have been eliminated during the special operation. There is not any information reported about direct collisions with the infidels.  

Meanwhile on Friday morning a firefight took place near the village of Bamut. The sources reported that in a course of action 1 Mujahid became a Shaheed, inshaAllah. Exact data of losses of the infidels is unknown.

Chechen Mujahidun Accounts

The second Chechen war, which began in early October 1999, was from the outset colored in the green of Islam. It was immediately preceded by the jihad of radical Muslims in the Dagestani mountains in August-September of the same year.

Although in the early years of the second Chechen war the secular leadership of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI) still continued to function, it quickly began to color its activities in Muslim tones. The meeting of the State Committee of Defense of the ChRI, which took place on July 22, 2002, only confirmed this transformation.

At that meeting, Shamil Basaev was appointed the commander of military operations on three fronts-Eastern, Western and Northern-while Abdul-Khalim Sadulaev, the head of the jamaat in the town of Argun and the advisor on religious affairs to the president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Aslan Maskhadov, was elected vice president of the ChRI (Laurent Vinatier. Guerre en Tchétchénie, exil et diaspora (thése de doctorat). Paris, 2008, p.51).

The movement of the military jamaats, which evolved into the unrecognized state of the Caucasus Emirate, is logically consistent with the overall structure of the international network-centric community of radical Muslims and represents a long-term destabilization factor in this part of Russia.

Meanwhile, on April 23, 2009 the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued five new decisions on disappearances and killings in Chechnya in the cases of Alaudinova v. Russia, Bitiyeva and others v. Russia, Gakayev and Gakayeva v. Armenia, Israilova and others v. Russia, and Khachukayev v. Russia. Any of one them could be - and is - the 100th "Chechen»" ruling by the European Court. Though not to the exact day, but nearly so, these 100 rulings coincide with the tenth anniversary of the recently "completed" "counterterrorist operation" (CTO).

The CTO began in September 1999, and in the cases of Mezhidov v. Russia and Isayeva and Yusupova and Bazayeva v. Russia it was established that Russian military aircraft carried out the indiscriminate bombing of civilians fleeing Grozny in October 1999.