Threats of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist cell regarding Russia are at the same time threats to Europe, where many caliphate supporters are, Russian Federation Council international affairs committee head Mikhail Margelov said.
Threats of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist cell regarding Russia are at the same time threats to Europe, where many caliphate supporters are, Russian Federation Council international affairs committee head Mikhail Margelov said.
Information exists that ISIL army has almost 80% foreign militants and participants of clashes in Syria, Margelov told Interfax. "And while the EU authorities have been racking their brains over new sanctions regarding Russia, a deadly dangerous center of the 'global caliphate' has formed in the Middle East. And ISIL threats addressed to Russia are simultaneously threats to Europe, where quite a lot of caliphate supporters are," he said.
Furthermore, the person who executed U.S. reporters spoke London cockney, Margelov said.
"The ISIL poses a direct threat to Muslim countries as well because this cell does not consider their authorities to be 'real Muslims.' After seizing Mosul, Iraq, ISIL representatives announced the creation of 'the first truly Muslim world rule.' So from this viewpoint the governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are 'not true'," Margelov said. Not to mention the fact that terrorist of different cells are fighting not in two Muslim countries alone - Iraq and Syria - they are also active in Lebanon, Mali and other Middle Eastern and African states, he said.
"Militants of the ISIL cell addressed a threat 'to free Chechnya and the Caucasus' to Russian President Vladimir Putin and threatened Syrian President Bashar Assad, whose army, by the way, crushed part of the cell fighting in Syria," Margelov said.
Now Iraq has become the main theater of terrorist actions and outrages by ISIL, which has not lost the fighting capacity, the senator said. However, Iraq is just a base because the caliphate declared by the ISIL should also include Syria and is seen as "global" one in the future, he said. "So the threats of terrorist attacks at Caucasus should be taken seriously. The caliphate map was released last year. In particular, Russian regions, where Wahhabist cells operate, were marked on the map and North Caucasus and the Volga Region were shaded densely," Margelov said.
At the same time, it is possible this map cannot be trusted 100% as terrorists are trained in modern IT and can have wishful thinking, Margelov said. "Nevertheless, caliphate supporters exist on the territory and some natives of our country fight within the ISIL. Chechen Omar Al-Shishani, born in the Pankisi Gorge, has been recently named a commander in one of the ISIL videos," Margelov said.
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