The US has accused the US-born Yemen-based religious scholar Anwar al-Awlaki of being linked to an attack on a military base in Texas and the alleged attempt to blow up a passenger plane over Detroit on Christmas Day.
US officials accuse ...
This is the English transcript of a video interview given by the Emir of the Caucasus Emirate Dokka Abu Usman on 6 Rabi' Al-Awwal 1431 (19.02.2010). The interview was translated from Russian by the Kavkaz Center.
I seek refuge with Allah ...
This is the English transcript of a video interview given by the Emir of the Caucasus Emirate Dokka Abu Usman on 1 Safar 1431 (16.01.2010). The interview was translated from Russian by the Kavkaz Center.
- Another year of Jihad has passed. ...
- Why are you not fighting against pagans nationalists who instigate hatred among Muslims? Isn't fighting them more important than killing policemen?
- In the name of Allah the Merciful, the Gracious!
Praise to Allah, ...
Exclusive interview with the Director of Information-Analytical Service of the Caucasus Emirate, Movladi Udugov. The interview was conducted by Levan Chitanava from Georgian Information Agency Pirweli.
Q: Russian side brought more accusations ...
Exclusive interview for the Caucasian mass-media of independent journalist Vakha Khasanov with Chechen political scientist Saad Minkailov.
Vakha Khasanov: Russian media, including so-called democratic, coordinating each other, tried to keep ...
The editorial staff of Kavkaz Center has received a video message from the Emir of the Caucasus, Abu Usman (AKA Dokku Umarov) to the parents of apostates, and also to the apostate-policemen themselves, in which he tells about the real state of affairs in ...
This is an English transcript of the video statement made by Emir of the Caucasus Emirate Dokka Abu Usman following the Majlis al-Shura on 29 Rabi' al-Thani 1430 (25.04.2009). The statement translated from Russian to English by The Caucasus Blog.
I ...
Prague Watchdog edition published an interview with one of the Mujahideen commanders of the Caucasus Emirate, Abdul-Malik. The interview was translated from Chechen into Russian, and from Russian into English.
Prague Watchdog: Do you think ...
At a meeting with Russian parliamentary deputies in Grozny on March 25, the Moscow-backed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov announced that the counter-terrorist operation, which has been going on in Chechnya since 1999, is nearing completion. According to ...
The Jamestown Foundation (USA) has published an interview with Emir Sayfullah (Anzor Astemirov), a Wali of the combined province of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachai of the Caucasus Emirate.
The preamble of the Jamestown Foundation says that ...
On March 4 a video clip was posted to YouTube in which a man named Ruslan (Aslan) Khalidov tells how he was ordered to assassinate Magomed Ocherhadji, the unofficial leader of Norway's large Chechen exile community. In the video, Khalidov gives a detailed ...
Kavkaz Center has interviewed a Naib of Emir (deputy Emir) of Mujahideen in Caucasus Supyan Abdullayev. Naib Supyan talks about the main point in the famous declaration of the Emirate by Emir Dokka Abu Usman, about widespread religious deviances in the Muslim ...
This is a video transcript of the address by the Amir of the Emirate of Caucasus Dokka Abu Usman and Sheikh Sayeed of Buriatia to Muslims in Gimry Village (Wilayat Dagestan), Dhul-Hijjah 1429 (December 2008).
Dokka Abu Usman: I seek refuge ...
Taliban not talking peace
Mullah Mohammad Hasan Rahmani
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
Amid continuing reports of a renewed initiative to hold peace talks with the Taliban over Afghanistan, and confusion over the Taliban's position, the Taliban leadership ...
In summer of 2008, one of the most famous and authoritative proponents of Islam in Russia, Sheikh Sayeed of Buriatia (AKA Buryatskiy) joined the jihad in the Caucasus.
After arrival to Chechnya, Sheikh Sayeed of Buriatia stated that after the proclamation ...
Imam Anwar al-Awlaki is a Muslim scholar of Yemeni heritage, born in the United States. He earned his Masters Degree in Educational Leadership from San Diego State University and served as an Imam in San Diego, and later in the Washington, D.C. area, where ...
Human Rights edition Prague Watchdog (Part 1, Part 2) published an interview with the head of the Informational-Analytical Service of the Caucasus Emirate Movladi Udugovym. Kavkaz Center publishes the text of that interview.
Prague Watchdog: ...
Interview of Commander-In-Chief of the Caucasus Emirate Dokka Umarov to Kavkaz Center's journalist Shamsuddin Nashkhoyev (Jumada Al-'Awwal 1429 / May 2008). This interview is a transcript of the latest video of Amir Dokka.
S.Nashkhoyev: ...
As it was promised in the advertising of Chechen Times the other day, Chechen Times published an interview with Akhmed Zakayev's close friend and companion, Zakhar Abukhanov, where he accuses his ex-friend of betrayal and his attempts to mastermind ...