Emir Dokku Umarov's close comrade-in-arms killed in Istanbul

18 September 2011

Three Chechens - Berg-Khazh Musayev, Rustam Altemirov and Zaurbek Amriyev (martyrs, Insha'Allah) - were killed on Friday at 03:30 pm in Istanbul's district of Zeytinburnu.

All three were killed by a hitman with a silenced pistol after Friday prayers at a time when they wanted to get into their car, parked on the side of the road.

According to eyewitnesses, the killer was alone. He was waiting for them. Seizing the moment, the killer approached the Chechens from behind and fired at Rustam Altemirov and Zaurbek Amriyev.

Berg-Khazh Musayev managed to evade a third shot. The killer missed, but with the second shot he wounded Musayev and with the third, on the head, he killed him.

He then made control shots on the heads of Altemirov and Amriyev. After that, the killer got into a black car (Mercedes), which was waiting for him, and left. After driving for several blocks, he abandoned the car.

As it turned out, the car was rented in the name of a Russian citizen with Russian name and surname. Two more Russians were with him.

The KC sources report that the Istanbul police believe the killer of the three Chechens is the same man who previously killed the former representative of Dokku Umarov abroad, Musa Atayev, in February 2009.

One of the Chechens killed on Friday, Berg-Khazh Musayev (Emir Khamzat), was a close associate of Emir of the Caucasus Emirate, Dokku Abu Usman. He came to Turkey about 1.5 years ago for a medical treatment, after he was injured during military actions in Chechnya. The two other young Chechens were also undergoing a medical treating in Turkey.

A Caucasian Refugees' Human Rights Center in Turkey, Imkander, held a press conference on Saturday, during which it directly accused Russian secret services of the killing of the three Chechens

Earlier in his statement, the Chairman of the Imkander Murat Ozer (see photo) said:

"The Russian state terror in Turkey continues to take lives of Chechens who have been subjected to violence and murders by Russia since 1991. Russia continues to slaughter those who found refuge in countries around the world.

There is no doubt that this is a continuation of a series of previous killings of Chechens, carried out by Russian intelligence services".

During a press conference, journalists were reminded that Russia killed the ex-president of the CRI, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, in an act of terrorism, which was organized by the Russian embassy in Qatar in 2003.

In Austria, a group of hitmen, sent by Kadyrov, killed in 2009 Umar Israilov, who wanted to be a witness and accuser for horrendous, sadistic crimes, committed by Kadyrov in Chechnya, at the European Court for Human Rights in Strasburg.

At the press conference, the leaders of Imkander sharply criticized the Turkish government and noted that so far Turkish authorities had taken no effective action to protect the refugees from Chechnya and the Caucasus from Russian secret services.

"The Turkish government, which provided shelter and residence permits to those people, now murdered in the massacre, should immediately take appropriate steps and demand an answer from the Russian government, which stays behind the dastard murders", the Imkander statement says.

Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center

Source: Kavkaz Center.
Link: http://2r2tz6wzqh7gaji7.onion.to/eng/content/2011/09/18/15142.shtml.

Turkey. Chechen families blame Putin and his puppet Kadyrov for killing of three Chechens

18 September 2011

The families of three Chechens who were gunned down on Friday in İstanbul have blamed Russian ringleader Putin and his puppet Kadyrov for the killings.

At a press conference held by the head of the Association for Solidarity and Defense of Humanity (İMKANDER) at the Eresin Hotel in İstanbul on Saturday, the families of the victims who were killed in what was the latest in a string of attacks against Chechens in Turkey stated that the Russians and Chechen puppets had launched a massive campaign against Chechen dissidents.

Sehida Musayeva, the wife of Berg Khazh Musayev, who was killed on Friday, blamed Kadyrov for the assassination of her husband and claimed that Russian intelligence was also behind the attack.

Sehida Musayeva said Turkish police had searched her house. "The police treat us as if we are criminals. We are in a very difficult situation. We want the [Turkish] government to find the killers," she said.

Speaking at the conference Murat Ozer, the head of İMKANDER, condemned police for failing to find the perpetrators behind attacks on Chechens living in İstanbul over the last three years. According to Ozer, if police had successfully solved the murders of other Chechens since 2008, they could have prevented the latest attack. Ozer urged the government to prevent further killings and said Turkey must not remain silent toward the assassinations of Chechen people in Turkey by Russia

According to a report presented by Ozer at the press conference, 102 Chechen families live in Turkey under harsh conditions in fear of being murdered by Russian secret police or by Kadyrov's men. Some Chechens live in refugee camps, while many of them have been helped by charities and provided with houses. They are not allowed to work in Turkey due to their legal status.

Malika Amriyeva, the wife of Zavrbek Amriyev, who was killed in the attack, said: "Three families stay in the same house. We live in terrible conditions. We don't want to be killed. I have a 6-month-old baby. We came to Turkey for protection, but three people have been shot in broad daylight, and nobody showed any reaction to the attack."

Families of the victims claimed that Kadyrov had an assassination list in which 500 Chechens who fought against Russia in the second Chechen war, which started in 1999, are named and are being persecuted on the orders of Vladimir Putin. The victims of Friday's attack, according to the families, were among the ones on the list.

Source: Agencies

Kavkaz Center

Source: Kavkaz Center.
Link: http://2r2tz6wzqh7gaji7.onion.to/eng/content/2011/09/18/15143.shtml.

Istanbul: Thousands of Muslims gather for funeral of 3 Chechens killed by Russian special services

19 September 2011

Turkish news sources reported that on September 18, 2011, thousands of Muslims gathered in the Fatih Mosque in the heart of Istanbul for funeral ceremony for the three Chechen asylum seekers, assassinated by Russian special forces on Friday after collective prayer in the Zeytinburnu district.

The funeral was attended by the families of the victims, Mr. Fetullah Erbas, a former Turkish MP from the Saadet Party, members of the Humanitarian Defense and Fraternity Association (IMKANDER), the Free Thought and Education Rights Association (OZGURDER), the Solidarity Association for Human Rights and Oppressed People (MAZLUMDER), the Human Rights and Freedoms Platform, the Free Jerusalem Platform, HAY-DER, MUSTAZAF-DER, as well as by Turkish citizens and Chechens.

Dozens of journalists covered the event, because another murder of Chechens aroused much public attention in Turkey.

The Istanbul authorities and the police provided full support for funeral arrangements.

After the Janaza prayer, the Muslims hoisted flags and raised posters of Dzhokhar Dudayev and other Chechen leaders, and lot of banners, and directly charged Putin with the murder of the Chechens.

They periodically chanted takbirs (Allah-u Akbar: "Allah is almighty") and slogans. The most wide-spread slogans were "The assasins will be punished", "The puppet Kadyrov will be punished", "Our Martyrs are our honor", "Greetings to the Caucasus, continue with the resistance" and "Muslims wake up and support the Caucasus".

It is to be recalled that the three Chechens, Berg-Khazh Musayev, Rustam Altemirov and Zaurbek Amriyev (Martyrs, Insha'Allah), were killed last Friday at 03:30 pm.

All three were killed by a hitman with a silenced pistol after Friday prayers at a time when they wanted to get into their car, parked on the side of the road.

According to eyewitnesses, the killer was alone. He was waiting for them. Seizing the moment, the killer approached the Chechens from behind and fired at Rustam Altemirov and Zaurbek Amriyev.

Berg-Khazh Musayev managed to evade a third shot. The killer missed, but with the second shot he wounded Musayev and with the third, on the head, he killed him.

He then made control shots on the heads of Altemirov and Amriyev. After that, the killer got into a black car (Mercedes), which was waiting for him, and left. After driving for several blocks, he abandoned the car.

As it turned out, the car was rented in the name of a Russian citizen with Russian name and surname. Two more Russians were with him.

The KC sources report that the Istanbul police believe the killer of the three Chechens is the same man who previously killed the former representative of Dokku Umarov abroad, Musa Atayev, in February 2009.

There is also information that the Turkish authorities have a photograph of the killer and information on his two accomplices. Their place of residence and movements were established. A group of criminals has been preparing the killing since 4 September 2011.

It is not to be excluded that the weapon was handed to the killers by the Russian Embassy in Turkey, as in the case of the terrorist attack against the former president of the CRI, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, in Qatar in 2003.

One of the Chechens killed on Friday, Berg-Khazh Musayev (Emir Khamzat), was a close associate of the Emir of the Caucasus Emirate, Dokku Abu Usman. He came to Turkey about 1.5 years ago for a medical treatment, after he was injured during military actions in Chechnya. He was the main target for the killers.

The two other young Chechens were also undergoing a medical treating in Turkey.

The Turkish media highlighted in their reports that the killed Chechens were living in very poor conditions and their life in Istanbul was very ascetic. Thus, according to the police, Berg-Khazh Musayev lived in a flat with a sofa bed as the only furniture, and had only some potatoes, bread and yogurt in the kitchen.

Source: Kavkaz Center.
Link: http://2r2tz6wzqh7gaji7.onion.to/eng/content/2011/09/19/15144.shtml.

Turkish security services follow trail of murderers of three Chechens

19 September 2011

The killer escaped from the hotel 2 minutes before the arrival of an assault team of Turkish special services. In haste he left in a room the murder weapon, binoculars and night vision video camera, ammunition, documents, clothing, report KC sources with reference to Turkish media outlets.

The police did not give the name of hotel where the killers was hiding, but it is know that it is located near Istanbul's Sultanahmet district.

From unofficial sources it became known that the name of the murderer is A.Zharkov, 55 years old. Police did not rule out that it was this man who killed Dokku Umarov's representative in Turkey, Musa Atayev, in February 2009.

The killer entered Turkey with a Russian passport on September 2, 2011. After 2 days, on 4 September, killer and his two assistants have rented a car (sources say it was a black Mercedes). The identity of one of the killer's accomplices, the driver, has been established.

Time of renting of the car was ended on the day of the murder on September 16, 2011.

Turkish security services possess, besides to killer's gun and ammunition, photographs and video proving that this person committed the murder of three Chechens on Friday September 16, 2011 in Istanbul's Zeytinburnu district.

According to sources, the main target of the killer was Berg-Khazh Musayev, a close associate of Emir Dokku Abu Usman.

Sources in Turkey reported that the investigation into the murder and the search for the killer and his accomplices are being conducted by three power structures - MIT (Turkish main secret service), criminal police and anti-terror police.

During the preliminary investigation it was established the travel routes of the killer and his accomplices, a place where they were and possible spots of operational monitoring of future victims, including in the district of "Chechen Committee".

Security services seized data from all cameras and using them confirmed the identity of the murderer, who was pictured in the archival records.

It should be noted that the murder of three Chechen in Istanbul aroused great public attention in Turkey. The government has been harshly criticized from human rights organizations which accused the government of Turkey for failing to provide security of Caucasus refugees in the country.

In turn, representatives of the Caucasus and the Chechen diaspora have already stated that if the Turkish authorities could not ensure their safety, they should give people the opportunity to defend their lives and allow to have weapons.

Source: Kavkaz Center.
Link: http://2r2tz6wzqh7gaji7.onion.to/eng/content/2011/09/19/15150.shtml.

Caucasian Mujahideen and Kavkaz Center reported as threat to survival of Russia

19 September 2011

KGB (FSB) thugs from among Russian lawyers, policemen, journalists and scientists continue to debate on the decision of a Moscow court, taken under the order the Russian Prosecutor General, Mr. Chaika, to designate the Kavkaz Center as an "extremist website" and to shutdown its operation. The implementation of that decision was entrusted to the KGB.

In recent days, the debate continued in some cases also on an anonymous basis, i.e. the Kavkaz Center is not named, as the mentioning of the KC alone already entails a punishment in Russia.

Doctor of Law Sciences Vladimir Ovchinskii (see photo), a Russian criminologist and retired police major-general, said in the program "Week" on Minsk television channel "Capital TV" in Belarus that the very survival of the KGB-ruled Russia is now threatened.

The Russian police professor said in particular:

"After the so-called Arab revolutions, the problem becomes even more important. Radical Islamists, who take part in Islamic movements, perceived the Arab revolutions as their victory. And the revolutions are carried out by the radicals.

The radicals and people from outside were interested in these revolutions.

The US and NATO will be doing the same thing they did in Libya, that they are already doing in Syria, helping a so-called opposition, but in reality the opposition consists of bandits, terrorists, scum, as well as those who attacked the lawful government of Gaddafi in Libya. The same thing they would do in Iran.

This aggressiveness and intensity of military operations by the NATO, the Taliban and Al Qaeda will not be directed against the regime of Karzai regime, with whom they will agree on dividing the zones of influence, but above all, against our colleagues, our partners, our neighbors - in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Perhaps, in Kazakhstan.

And as the next comes the territory of Russia! We cannot allow this belt of radical Islam, Taliban/Al Qaeda to extend right into Russia.

This is the question of the survival of Russia. Pro-NATO forces will be already stationed on the Russian border in Smolensk (a Russian-occupied Belarusian city - KC).

There is also propaganda of all kinds of extremism. It should be stopped with strictest means. There can be no other solution fot that. In the United States, when riots broke out in Philadelphia, they shutdowned the Internet. Instantly".

It is to be noted in this connection that the blocking of the Internet will be of no help for the Russians to save their collapsing country.

The imminent death of Russia from the hands of the Mujahideen was also forecast in a Moscow's Carnegie Center report compiled by Moscow professor Lilia Shevtsova and symbolically published on September 11, 2011, in an article in Novaya Gazeta.

Meanwhile, the need to block, shutdown and expose to repression the independent media in Russia was expressed in September 19 issue of the official government (Putin's government) newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta by Mr. Nikonov ( see photo), executive director of the "Russian World" Fund. The Fund was created by the KGB to promote a new "reunion with Russian" of Ukraine and Belarus which the Russians consider as part of Great Russia belonging to the "Russian World" under Moscow's rule. The KGB thug Nikonov writes:

"There are extremist websites that need to be dealt with and to which the existing laws are to be be applied, so that they are terminated, as happened, for example, with the Kavkaz-Center" website.

Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center

Source: Kavkaz Center.
Link: http://2r2tz6wzqh7gaji7.onion.to/eng/content/2011/09/19/15145.shtml.

12 killed in Somalia truck crash

Tue Sep 20, 2011

At least 12 people have been killed and 28 others wounded when a truck overturned in the “Bay region” of southern Somalia, witnesses say.

The accident happened somewhere between Mogadishu and Baidoa town in the southern Bay region Monday.

The accident happened in less than five hours after another similar accident during which three people died and nine others were injured.

In the meantime, tens of thousands of drought victims are fleeing the Bay and Bakool regions of south Somalia after the Somali government banned aid workers from south Somalia's towns to help drought victims.

Mogadishu Mayor Mohamed Taarzan has warned aid workers not to attempt to enter areas controlled by al-Shabab or they will face fines and expulsion from Somalia.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.com/detail/200134.html.

Tunisia clashes leave several injured

Tue Sep 20, 2011

Fresh clashes between Tunisian anti-government protesters and police forces have left several people injured in the southwestern town of Kebili.

Violence broke out overnight Saturday into Sunday when angry youths threw stones and 'tear gas bombs' at police buildings, said local Police Chief Adel Kacem, quoted by Tunisia's state news agency TAP on Monday.

A four-month-old child was also injured by a tear gas canister thrown by protesters, Kacem claimed.

The angry protesters also attacked officers' homes with fire bombs, leaving an officer seriously injured, he went on to say.

Five people were arrested in the unrest, which continued through Monday.

Local witnesses accused the police of using excessive force and causing panic and injury in the Ennazla area.

The developments come as Tunisians remain skeptical about a rapid transition towards democracy.

Demonstrators demand the resignation of the transitional government, which still includes figures from the ousted regime of former ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

Tensions have been climbing in Tunisia following reports of a possible coup by elements loyal to Ben Ali.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.com/detail/200126.html.

Afghan peace council chief killed

Tue Sep 20, 2011

Head of Afghanistan's Peace Council Burhanuddin Rabbani has been killed in an attack in the Afghan capital city of Kabul, Press TV reports.

Rabbani, who was former Afghan president and the chairman of the Independent High Council for Peace, died in an explosion that took place in his home on Tuesday.

The report came after a powerful blast was heard in Kabul close to the US embassy and the home of Rabbani.

Press TV's Kabul bureau chief said that two men who claimed that they wanted to negotiate with Rabbani had reportedly carried out the attack.

Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack, he noted.

Five other people, all senior Afghan officials, were also killed in the incident. The head of the joint secretariat of the High Council for Peace Massum Stanikzai was also wounded in the attack.

As head of Afghanistan peace council, Rabbani was in charge of Afghan-Taliban talks aimed at reintegrating militants who are willing to lay down their arms.

The initiative to form a peace council was adopted at a traditional gathering, or Jirga, in June 2010 following the failure of the US-led forces in establishing peace in Afghanistan.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.com/detail/200209.html.

Pakistan to file UN protest against US

Wed Sep 21, 2011

The Pakistani government has decided to lodge a complaint with the United Nations on unauthorized US drone attacks against civilians with the pretext of targeting militants, Press TV reports.

Speaking in a press briefing in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Monday, advisor to the country's Prime Minister, Mustafa Nawaz Khokar, said that the issue of US drone attacks in Pakistan will be discussed among government officials and then a formal complaint will be lodged against the United States.

He said that the drone attacks violate Pakistan's territorial sovereignty and are not at all acceptable.

The US has carried out numerous drone attacks against Pakistan's tribal areas since 2008 but there has been a significant surge in such attacks over the past few months.

There is a growing consensus among international law experts that these strikes can be aptly described as “Target Killings” or “Extra Judicial Killings” primarily because the targets are being 'taken out' without giving them opportunity to defend themselves in a court of law.

The drone strikes, initiated by former US President George W. Bush, have been escalated under President Barack Obama, who had pledged major changes in toning down American foreign military engagements.

Despite Washington's claim that the drone strikes target militants and their strongholds, victims of such attacks have reportedly been predominantly civilians.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.com/detail/200182.html.

Japanese demand end to nuclear power

Mon Sep 19, 2011

Thousands of Japanese people have rallied in the capital Tokyo to demand an end to nuclear energy, six months after twin disasters of quake and tsunami led to an atomic crisis in the tremor-prone country.

About 60,000 people turned up on Monday in what organizers said was one of the biggest demonstrations since March 11 quake which sparked a nuclear crisis at Fukushima Daiichi power plant, Reuters reported.

“No more nuclear power plants! No more Fukushimas,” protesters chanted as they gathered in Meiji Park in central Tokyo before the march began.

Japanese government has banned people from within 20 kilometers of the crippled plant where the continuous leakage of radiation has forced some 80,000 residents to leave their homes.

The nuclear crisis dealt a heavy blow to Japan's former Prime Minister Naoto Kan who faced escalating criticism over his handling of the trouble and was finally forced to leave office in late August.

Kan told Kyodo News agency on Monday that he had contemplated evacuating as many as 30 million people from Tokyo and surrounding prefectures in a worst-case scenario of the nuclear crisis.

The former premier said there were no effective safeguardS since ''we had never foreseen a situation in which a quake, tsunami and a nuclear plant accident would occur at the same time."

While still in office, Kan had said that Japan had to reduce its reliance on nuclear energy which accounted for nearly 30 percent of the country's electricity supply before the crisis.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.com/detail/200005.html.