Soldiers of the Caliphate not based in Afghanistan, linked with N. Caucasus - experts
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Alma-Ata, September 28, Interfax - U.S. experts have concluded that the Soldiers of the Caliphate radical group, which claimed responsibility for last year's terrorist attack in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, and a shootout in Boralday, is not based in Afghanistan, Kazakh political scientist Yerlan Karin said.
"Just a few days ago I received a report from my American colleagues, who scrupulously analyzed the text of leaflets and messages from Soldiers of the Caliphate. Theologians, religious scholars and analysts worked with them. They came to the conclusion that the people acting on behalf of this group are highly unlikely to have their base in Afghanistan. The slogans they use are close to those of radical groups from the North Caucasus. The Soldiers is evidently a small branch of the so-called North Caucasus Emirate," Karin said in an interview with the Central Asian Monitor newspaper published on Friday.
"It is obviously true, especially as the Soldiers' first message appeared on a website close to North Caucasus groups, and it has been established that most of our citizens detained on suspicion of terrorism joined these groups under the influence of the notorious Said Buryatsky's propaganda," he said.
Two explosions rocked the Kazakh city of Atyrau early on October 31, 2011. The Soldiers of the Caliphate, or The Jund al Khilafah, group posted an online message on the same day, claiming responsibility for the incident.
According to Kazakh special services, this group was formed by Kazakh citizens fighting on the side of Afghan militants and hiding near the Afghan-Pakistani border.
Five members of a terrorist group were killed in a security operation in the village of Boralday of the Almaty region on December 3, 2011. The shootout with the terrorists claimed the lives of two soldiers of the Kazakh National Security Committee's Arystan special operations unit.
Shortly after it, The Long War Journal website published a translation of a Soldiers of the Caliphate statement, saying that the terrorists killed in Boralday were members of this group.
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Alma-Ata, September 28, Interfax - U.S. experts have concluded that the Soldiers of the Caliphate radical group, which claimed responsibility for last year's terrorist attack in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, and a shootout in Boralday, is not based in Afghanistan, Kazakh political scientist Yerlan Karin said.
"Just a few days ago I received a report from my American colleagues, who scrupulously analyzed the text of leaflets and messages from Soldiers of the Caliphate. Theologians, religious scholars and analysts worked with them. They came to the conclusion that the people acting on behalf of this group are highly unlikely to have their base in Afghanistan. The slogans they use are close to those of radical groups from the North Caucasus. The Soldiers is evidently a small branch of the so-called North Caucasus Emirate," Karin said in an interview with the Central Asian Monitor newspaper published on Friday.
"It is obviously true, especially as the Soldiers' first message appeared on a website close to North Caucasus groups, and it has been established that most of our citizens detained on suspicion of terrorism joined these groups under the influence of the notorious Said Buryatsky's propaganda," he said.
Two explosions rocked the Kazakh city of Atyrau early on October 31, 2011. The Soldiers of the Caliphate, or The Jund al Khilafah, group posted an online message on the same day, claiming responsibility for the incident.
According to Kazakh special services, this group was formed by Kazakh citizens fighting on the side of Afghan militants and hiding near the Afghan-Pakistani border.
Five members of a terrorist group were killed in a security operation in the village of Boralday of the Almaty region on December 3, 2011. The shootout with the terrorists claimed the lives of two soldiers of the Kazakh National Security Committee's Arystan special operations unit.
Shortly after it, The Long War Journal website published a translation of a Soldiers of the Caliphate statement, saying that the terrorists killed in Boralday were members of this group.
Source http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=9916
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