Chechen Mujahideen Claim Responsibility
For Beslan; Plane Attacks
Jihad
Unspun | September 6 2004
Comment: Not as yet confirmed by the mainstream,
this would certainly be convenient for Putin.
JUS has learned from reliable sources that Chechen Mujahideen
have claimed responsibility for both the Beslan School incident and the
attacks on two Russian planes that crashed ten days ago. In a soon to be
released statement, Chechen Mujahideen also indicate another attack is already
in process.
Our sources tell us that the statement will contain a much
different version of the events at Beslan School than what is being reported.
The total number of casualties the Mujahideen claim is approximately 700
however they state that the majority of casualties were adults. The school
was filled with teachers, staff, parents and children at the time of the
incident. They claim that the majority of children were released in the
initial siege. Ten were killed in the cross fire and 30 were released shortly
after the incident began, leaving only 25 inside.
The statement is also said to counter claims that the children
did not receive food and water which apparently was available inside the
school due to the commencement celebrations.
Our sources also claim that, contrary to press reports
that have so far shown only one capture attacker and none of those it says
were killed, several Mujahideen escaped with approximately 200 hostages
and that fighting is still going on. Russian authorities sealed off the
town early in the siege, cutting telephone communications and imposing a
media blackout.
Our sources also claim that the actual demands of the Chechen
Mujahideen were not ever made public. In addition to the Russian withdrawal
from Chechen and release of Chechen prisoners, the Mujahideen issued a demand
that Vladimar Putin to be brought to trial for war crimes against Chechens.
This of course is not a demand that would ever be made public on Kremlin
controlled media and certainly not one that Putin himself would consider.
The statement is said to contain a warning that “we
will make every Russian pay with our next operation such that they will
be forced to release their grip on Chechnya”. The sttment is expected
to be released to the press tomorrow.
Russia Admits It Lied On Crisis
The Russian government admitted yesterday that it lied
to its people about the scale of the hostage crisis. The Kremlin-controlled
Rossiya network aired gripping footage it had withheld from the public for
days and said government officials had deliberately deceived the world about
the number of hostages inside School No. 1.
The broadcast included no apology and referred only to
the most blatant misstatement by officials. It did not acknowledge that
the hostage-takers had demanded an end to the war in Chechnya or that the
government continues to give conflicting information about whether any of
the guerrillas remain at large, who they were and how many were killed.
Russian did not send its Elite Guard to Beslen. Apparently,
they remained in Moscow during the siege and it is expected that this was
because they were expecting a simultaneous attack which did not occur. Obviously
they must have had some kind of intelligence, faulty or otherwise, to make
this tactical decision.
It appears that Putin in making an effort to involve the
world community, and specifically George Bush in his invasion of Chechnya.
Valery Andreyev, Russia's Federal Security Service chief in the region,
said 10 Arabs were among 27 who were killed. The Arab presence among the
attackers would support Putin's contention that Al-Qaida are deeply involved
in the Chechen conflict, where Muslim fighters have been battling Russian
forces in a brutal war of independence on and off for more than a decade.
It is curious indeed that Russian security forces could have removed the
dead bodies from the Beslan carnage and identified them that quickly. This
is reminiscent of the front page of the Daily newspapers in New York on
Sept 12, 2001. All of the bodies of the hijackers were said to be destroyed
but they were able to be identify before the building fires were even put
out. It is obvious there is a concentrated effort to place the blame on
Al-Qaida to secure support for Russia’s unjust and brutal occupation
of Chechnya.
With the high death toll of Beslen, five attacks within
two weeks and five years of war that has killed thousands of Russian soldiers
and thousands more Chechens, the Russian public want a solution and it is
unlikely they will back Putin’s “all out war” considering
the horrific human toll his war effort has taken so far. We can only hope
that all of this senseless bloodshed will result in the end of Russia’s
assault on the people of Chechnya and end to its occupation.
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