The investigative group burtsev.ru has reported in the current issue of Left.ru about the clandestine external intelligence service of the Chechen Republic, involved in secret operations in Afghanistan under the protection of U.S. command. According to our sources, these operations involve “operational work and eliminations.” The head of Kadyrov's intelligence is the double agent Ruslan Saidov –who has recently met with Robert Kagan, advisor to Senator John McCain. 1 His deputy is Lechi Suleimenov, Saidov'e nephew.

The head-quarters of this service are located in Dubai, with a special department based at the U. S. Bargam Air Base. From there Chechen intelligence units and death squads conduct their operations against the local assets of Russia, Iran, China, Germany and France. The Chechens have U. S. documents and “a lot of money.” Their activities are coordinated with the military intelligence of USA, England, Canada, Poland, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan.

This information has been essentially confirmed by The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extra judicial executions-- Professor Philip Alston. Professor Alston teaches human rights law in NY University. He spent several weeks in Afghanistan, collecting data on human rights and discussed the situation with the officials from the Afghan government, secret services and the military.

Alston's report focuses on the extra judicial executions carried out by what he calls "foreign intelligence agencies" and “foreign intelligence units” that operate “death squads” in Afghanistan.

As reported by Jerome Starkey in Kabul, Professor Alston said: "There have been a large number of raids for which no state or military appears to take responsibility. I have spoken with a large number of people in relation to the operation of foreign intelligence units. I don't want to name them but they are at the most senior level of the relevant places. These forces operate with what appears to be impunity."

Alston describes “heavily armed internationals... wandering around conducting dangerous raids that too often result in killings without anyone taking responsibility for them."

Alston does not identify the nationalities of "foreign intelligence agencies," but he makes it clear that they do not belong to any NATO countries occupying Afghanistan. “These units, operating mainly in southern and eastern Afghanistan, were working outside of the international military and the Afghan government structures,” he said.

It is easy to recognize that this description matches what we already know about Kadyrov's clandestine intelligence service, operating from the Bagram Air Base. This force cannot be identified since it does not belong to any sovereign country and national army.

Alston points out that the foreign death squads operate with “impunity.” No wonder since they use US cover documents, yet officially they do not belong to the U.S. Army. These units lead ghost-like existence in the womb of the NATO force.

Alston describes the composition of these squadrons of death as heavily armed "companies of Afghans but with a handful, at most, of international people directing them.” Do Saidov's Chechen agents have the expertise and experience to conduct such raids in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Waziristan? Most certainly they do.

Kadyrov's “internal troops” in Chechnya are about 25 thousand in strength, with 5 thousand in special forces. They are former separatists fighters, experienced in combat. Some of them, certainly some of those in Saidov's intelligence, were trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan and fought in the Caucasus against Russians, in Afghanistan both against the Talibs and for them, and in Uzbekistan against Karimov's forces. They know the terrain and local languages.

Nor should one be surprised that Ramzan Kadyrov's forces fight in Afghanistan on the side of the United States against Russia and her allies. Kadyrov's people, including Saidov, openly speak of Chechen independence down the road.

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Sources on Ruslan Saidov in English

"Orange Revolution Is in Store for Russia: It is being prepared by International Terrorists, Criminal Organizations and Agents of Foreign Secret Services"

http://www.left.ru/burtsev/ops/yasenev_en.phtml

“Now the West Has No Choice but Between al Qaeda and Kadyrov”: “Caucasian Emirate” is a Provocation by Kadyrov's Intelligence Chief.

http://www.left.ru/burtsev/English/emirate.phtml

Barbarossa at Our Gates? The Anti-Russian Alliance of Western and Saudi Intelligence Behind “Far West LLC“ Prepares Bloody Sunday in the Northern Caucasus, Food and Gas Blockade against Russia.

http://www.left.ru/burtsev/ops/farwest.phtml

THIRD BARBAROSSA (English outline)

http://www.left.ru/burtsev/baumgarten.phtml

Open Letter to the Editors of Chechenpress

http://www.left.ru/burtsev/ops/letter.phtml

The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11. By Peter Dale Scott

http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/global-drug.htm

Примечания

1  See our article in the current issue -- “McCain and FarWest.” Left.ru 6 (2008) <http://left.ru/2008/6/kagan175.phtml>