Chechen Conflict Quotes
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.
