While western countries have expressed their...
This proves that a sizable portion of Western society still see developments in Chechnya, Dagestan and other North Caucasian republics through the prism of separatists movements, whereas the Islamists in the North Caucasus have long been striving to establish an anti-Western Islamic entity in the region, which is supposed to become part of the illusory caliphate in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Experts have long been following the cross border movement of Islamists in Central Asia. The Pakistani government’s military operations in South Waziristan and U.S. air strikes in the North Waziristan have confirmed that, in addition to the Afghan and Pakistan Taliban, Islamists from Chechnya, Dagestan and Uzbekistan are playing an active role in the conflict in the tribal regions.
Therefore, a link between the terrorist attack in Moscow and Al-Qaeda and the Taliban cannot be excluded. Moreover, the way in which the attacks were carried out in Moscow and Dagestan fits the
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