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===Chechen wars===
===Chechen wars===
[[File:Evstafiev palace gunman Chechnya.jpg|thumb|280px|Government palace building in [[Grozny]], [[Chechnya]].]]
[[File:Evstafiev palace gunman Chechnya.jpg|thumb|280px|Government palace building in [[Grozny]], [[Chechnya]].]]
====First Chechen war 1994 - 1996====
In late 1994, the Russian security forces launched a military operation in the Republic of [[Chechnya]] against internationally financed [[Wahhabi]] Islamist rebels intent on creating a [[Caliphate]]. The protracted conflict, which received close coverage in the Russian media, was ignored by Western media. In August 1996 the Russian and Chechen Republic authorities negotiated a settlement that resulted in greater autonomy for the Republic to deal with Islamists a complete withdrawal of Russian troops and the holding of elections in January 1997.
In late 1994, the Russian security forces launched a military operation in the Republic of [[Chechnya]] against internationally financed [[Wahhabi]] Islamist rebels intent on creating a [[Caliphate]]. The protracted conflict, which received close coverage in the Russian media, was ignored by Western media. In August 1996 the Russian and Chechen Republic authorities negotiated a settlement that resulted in greater autonomy for the Republic to deal with Islamists a complete withdrawal of Russian troops and the holding of elections in January 1997.
====Second Chechen war 1999 - 2009====
Following a number of continued [[terrorist]] attacks from Chechen [[jihad]]s against non-Muslims, the Russian government launched a new military campaign into Chechnya in 1997. By spring 2000, federal forces claimed control over Chechen territory, but fighting continued as jihadis regularly ambushed Russian forces in the region. Throughout 2002 and 2003, the ability of Islamists to battle the Russian forces waned but they claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist acts, including the [[Beslan school massacre]] in which 186 [[children]] were killed. In 2005 and 2006, key terrorist leaders were killed by Russian [[Spetsnaz]] forces.
Following a number of continued [[terrorist]] attacks from Chechen [[jihad]]s against non-Muslims, the Russian government launched a new military campaign into Chechnya in 1997. By spring 2000, federal forces claimed control over Chechen territory, but fighting continued as jihadis regularly ambushed Russian forces in the region. Throughout 2002 and 2003, the ability of Islamists to battle the Russian forces waned but they claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist acts, including the [[Beslan school massacre]] in which 186 [[children]] were killed. In 2005 and 2006, key terrorist leaders were killed by Russian [[Spetsnaz]] forces.
The ACPC heavily promoted the idea that the Chechen rebellion showed the undemocratic nature of Putin's Russia, and cultivated support for the Chechen cause by emphasizing the seriousness of [[human rights]] violations in the tiny Caucasian republic. It compared the Chechen crisis to those other fashionable "Muslim" causes, [[Bosnia]] and [[Kosovo]] - implying that only international intervention in the Caucasus could stabilize the situation. In August 2004, the ACPC welcomed the award of [[political asylum]] in the US, and a US-government funded grant, to Ilyas Akhmadov, foreign minister in the opposition Chechen government, and a man Moscow described as a [[terrorist]]. Coming from the [[uniparty]], the ACPC members represented the backbone of the US [[foreign policy]] [[establishment]], and their views were indeed those of the US administration.
The ACPC heavily promoted the idea that the Chechen rebellion showed the undemocratic nature of Putin's Russia, and cultivated support for the Chechen cause by emphasizing the seriousness of [[human rights]] violations in the tiny Caucasian republic. It compared the Chechen crisis to those other fashionable "Muslim" causes, [[Bosnia]] and [[Kosovo]] - implying that only international intervention in the Caucasus could stabilize the situation. In August 2004, the ACPC welcomed the award of [[political asylum]] in the US, and a US-government funded grant, to Ilyas Akhmadov, foreign minister in the opposition Chechen government, and a man Moscow described as a [[terrorist]]. Coming from the [[uniparty]], the ACPC members represented the backbone of the US [[foreign policy]] [[establishment]], and their views were indeed those of the US administration.
The terrorist Zelimkhan Khangoshvili gathered a detachment and joined the terrorist group "Caucasus Emirate", which also operated in [[Ingushetia]], [[Dagestan]] and the [[Republic of Georgia]]. Having been trained by Abu-Kutyeb and other close associates of Khattab, Khangoshvili became notorious for the method of killing Russian servicemen - driving over their heads<ref>https://youtu.be/hYfByTcY49k?t=6841</ref> - as well as for his involvement in many terrorist attacks.
In 2003 he shot a column of the Russian Armed Forces in Ingushetia, resulting in the death of 15 servicemen. In 2004, terrorists attacked Ingushetia: 98 people were killed. The terrorists seized many [[weapon]]s, which were used in the seizure of Beslan school on September 1, 2004. At the same time, Khangoshvili developed and directed the Moscow Metro terrorist attack "remotely".
An ardent [[Wahhabi]], the leader of the Wahhabi "Jamaat" of the Pankisi Gorge, at the start of Mikheil Saakashvili's nightmare rule, Khangoshvili became an agent of the Georgian MGB, distinguished in addition to cruelty and bloodlust, also by greed. Khangoshvili was wanted on [[terrorism]] charges in Russia. The [[Republic of Georgia]], [[Ukrainian]], the [[United States]] and [[Germany]] were all informed by Russian [[law enforcement]] of Khangoshvili's terrorist activities. In 2016 Khangoshvili fled to Germany. Russian authorities' request for his extradition was ignored.
====Beslan massacre====
====Beslan massacre====