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Mediterranean Quarterly (2013) 24 (4): 68–81.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Cooperation with the West Anna Borshchevskaya The 15 April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing perpetrated by two Chechen immigrants returned Russia and Islamism to the center of policy discussions in the West and in Russia. On 19 April, President Barack Obama thanked President...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (2): 5–20.
Published: 01 June 2015
... is enough to entice individuals to become jihadists is questionable. It is, how- ever, part of a rhetorical strategy to divide the world into the good and the bad in general, the believers and the infidels, and good and bad Muslims.28 In the mosque, nationality does not matter; Bosnians, Chechens...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2000) 11 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2000
... months remaining until the election. Then a miracle occurred! The Chechens, whose image has been associated with evil in the Russian mind ever since the days of Alexander Pushkin and Lev Tol- stoy, invaded their neighboring Caspian republic, Daghestan...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2003) 14 (4): 56–67.
Published: 01 December 2003
... to the increasingly hor- rific Chechen rebellion. Terrorism is often seen by Washington through the optic of global linkage, although it is evident there are few direct links between a suicide attack in the streets of Jerusalem and the Chechen resis- tance seizure of hostages in a Moscow theater. Despite...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2007) 18 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 March 2007
... and 2003. Reversing Sageman’s formulation, he regards jihadi or Salafist-type terrorism as a special case and looks only at attacks con- Mediterranean Quarterly: Winter 2007 nected to national liberation movements, which means Lebanese, Palestin- ian, Tamil, Chechen, and Kashmir Muslim attackers...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2004) 15 (1): 39–57.
Published: 01 March 2004
... in charge of all antiterrorist operations in Chechnya. By June 2002, the total number of Chechen fighters killed had reached 13,140. Official Rus- sian losses in this second war (since October 1999) totaled 3,438 dead by June 2002. Between January and October 2001, some 320 sweeps by the FSB resulted...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2013) 24 (4): 1–4.
Published: 01 December 2013
... on opposite sides of this issue, the United States and Russia were brought together by the 15 April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and its two suspected bombers, the half- Chechen brothers with radical Islamic sympathies, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Borshchevskaya, however, cautions the United States...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2015) 26 (2): 21–41.
Published: 01 June 2015
... movement, eclipsing moderate Free Syrian Army (FSA) units in its effective operations. Though mostly composed of Syrian militants, JN attracted foreign fighters that are disproportionately represented among its suicide bombers. Many Chechens, moreover, are in the group’s cadre of midlevel...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2003) 14 (2): 95–109.
Published: 01 June 2003
... if the ailing Niyazov is removed from the scene. Turkmenistan was the only Central Asian country that did not join the alliance against the Taliban, and may have been used as a channel to South Asia for Chechen and Arab extremists. Uzbekistan shares borders with every other country in the region...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2009) 20 (2): 113–137.
Published: 01 June 2009
...- nya, became the number one security issue for the country. During the first round of war in the Chechen Republic, which lasted from 1994 to 1996, Rus- sians watched as the war became internationalized — Muslim fighters came from other countries to fight alongside their brethren in Chechnya...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2017) 28 (1): 82–98.
Published: 01 March 2017
... unprecedented disunity in the jihadist world. Along with the Abdullah Azzam Brigade, Fatah al-­Islam, Ahrar al-Sham, and Chechen and Pakistani militant organizations, JN hopes to overthrow the regime and replace it with a Sunni fundamentalist state. Through its forma- tion of Jaysh al-­Fateh (Army...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2001) 12 (2): 43–50.
Published: 01 June 2001
... point is the life of a Kuwaiti or a Kosovar weighed against the life of a Chechen or a Sierra Leonean? Do world leaders ultimately value some lives more than others? At the height of post-Kosovo expectations, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2006) 17 (4): 46–59.
Published: 01 December 2006
... War. Religious iden- tity appears to be playing a major role in fueling and exacerbating conflict, whether it is Osama bin Ladin using religion to pursue a global movement or Kosovars and Chechens using it to bolster their claims of independence. Terrorism, Fundamentalism...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2014) 25 (2): 33–47.
Published: 01 June 2014
... groups, including many Arab, Pakistani, and Chechen groups, domi- nate huge swaths of Syrian territory in the north and east. Syria is now the epicenter of international jihad. 20. Thomas Joscelyn, “Analysis: Zawahiri’s Letter to al Qaeda Branches in Syria, Iraq,” Long War Journal, 10 June...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2008) 19 (1): 80–96.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of whom have been involved in the Chechen, Bosnian, and Afghan wars. While there is nothing new about Muslim migration to Europe, con- cerns about assimilation have been rising since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The growth of radical Muslim fundamentalism/revivalism has been greatly...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2002) 13 (2): 9–26.
Published: 01 June 2002
..., some fifty-five thousand Russian troops marched into that ministate to disarm an estimated three thousand armed Chechens. Yeltsin insisted that the vote to do so take place before any discussion of the action. Those who subsequently voiced reserva- tions included justice minister Iurii K. Kalmykov...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2006) 17 (4): 121–141.
Published: 01 December 2006
... organizations are exemplified by Chechen, Palestinian, Lebanese, and Kashmiri independence movements fighting against foreign occupiers. The 9. Berman. 10. Rohan Gunartna, Inside Al Qaeda (New York: Penguin, 2002). 11. “El Congreso examina las pistas previas al 11-M,” El País, 18 July 2004, 19 – 20...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2002) 13 (3): 40–57.
Published: 01 September 2002
... to provide simi- lar assistance to the Republic of Georgia, where al Qaeda is claimed to be operating in the Pankisi Gorge near the Russian border.15 The al Qaeda in Georgia are more likely al Qaeda–trained separatist Chechen rebels...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2009) 20 (3): 19–39.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Review Process, in 1999.19 The United States in 2002 began to provide counterterrorism training to Georgian security forces as part of the Georgia Train and Equip Program, in response to Russian threats to bomb alleged Chechen rebel camps in the Georgian Pankisi Gorge. This initiative brought...
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Mediterranean Quarterly (2000) 11 (3): 62–86.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of these accusations was highlighted a few months after the end of the Kosovo bombing by the Russian attack on rebels in Chech- nya. Removing civilians from the area of battle was the first thing the Rus- sian forces did in Grozny and other Chechen cities, before sending...