“Victory or Paradise!” is the rallying cry of the Chechen
suicide terrorists who took over the Beslan School and the Moscow Theater
(holding over one thousand and eight hundred hostages respectively). Chechen
terrorists acting from inside Chechnya launched more than 112 suicide attacks
inside Chechnya and are still active spreading their movement outside Chechnya
into the region. Likewise because of the devastating wars of independence,
Chechens refugees dispersed all over the world - to Europe, Canada, U.S. and
elsewhere. As refugees, they fled Chechnya and the surrounding region with deep
traumas seared into their souls - death, torture, rapes, carpet bombings,
complete and total devastation. A few of these became terrorist instigators and
actors in Belgium, in France and now it looks like also the U.S.
The young men identified as suspects in the Boston
bombings are Chechens who came here as children fleeing two devastating wars of
independence in Chechnya. As such, they likely grew up hearing stories of
Russian atrocities there and may have also been exposed to stories glorifying
rebel fighters in Chechnya that have been involved in militant jihadi
activities. [more...]
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. is a professor of
psychiatry, has studied the Chechens intensively, is an expert on PTSD and the author of Talking to Terrorists.
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