YOSSEF BODANSKY


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additional pressure on Moscow will only increase. Determined to consolidate their control over the strategically and economically crucial Caucasus, the Islamists and their sponsoring states have already resolved to escalate their terroristic Jihad to achieve what no negotiations can deliver. And herein lies the quintessence of the grim prospects for the Caucasus.
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The Islamist struggle for the Heart of Asia has already crossed a major milestone. The Islamists' objective is no longer just an effort to consolidate their hold over the Muslim states of South and Central Asia as well as a struggle for the "liberation" of traditionally contested territories such as Indian Kashmir. The Islamists have launched an offensive on Russian territory. The quintessence of the escalation of the war in Chechnya into a regional struggle is a strategic quest of radical Islam to wrestle the hegemony over the Caucasus from Russia for radical Islam
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All the Chechen-Dagestani combat detachments were under the command of Arabs
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The majority Muslim Russian province of Chechnya had a strong independence movement. Terrorism became the main vehicle by which the Chechnyans tried to gain more than the autonomy that the Russians had offered. There developed a major military arm of the Chechnyan independence movement. It turned our that the Chechnyan military leaders were not Russian Chechnyans at all, but were virtually all Arab terrorists who had infiltrated into Chechnya from the Middle East to “assist” their coreligionists. Instead, their terror tactics hardened the attitude of most Russians, and the independence movement of Chechnya was hijacked to be another Muslim Terrorist Battle in their war against modernity.

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Yossef Bodansky (born in Israel) is an Israeli-American political scientist who served as Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the US House of Representatives from 1988 to 2004. He is also Director of Research of the International Strategic Studies Association and has been a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). In the 1980s, he served as a senior consultant for the Department of Defense and the Department of State.