Websites crucial to funding Caucasus jihad

 

Websites crucial to funding Caucasus jihad

April 22, 2013

http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/websites-crucial-to-funding-caucasus-jihad/

 

Webpages operated by the Caucasus Emirate terrorist organization have played

a key and growing role in financing their operations, according to a

late-2011 report from the Center for Strategic & International Studies.  The

report revealed that while the Caucasus Emirate relied on centralized sites

such as Qoqaz.net in the early 2000s, the Caucasus Emirate and Al Qaeda now

follow a more decentralized approach of communicating through discussion

forums, social media, and smaller websites.

 

What role, if any, such websites played in engaging Boston Marathon bombers

Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev is yet to be determined, but the 2011 article

below from Reuters via Radio Free Europe about the CSIS findings now merits

a second look.

 

The article also acknowledges the symbiotic relationship and financial ties

between Al Qaeda and the North Caucasus guerrillas that Money Jihad profiled

last Friday:

 

    Think Tank Says Al-Qaeda Funding Caucasus Rebels

 

    September 30, 2011

 

    A leading Washington think tank says Al-Qaeda is providing growing

support, including financial, to Islamic rebels in Russia's restive North

Caucasus.

 

    In its report, the Center for Strategic and International Studies said

Al-Qaeda has played a key role in "proselytizing jihadism" to the mujahideen

in Chechnya and the Caucasus.

 

    The report's author, Gordon Hahn, pointed to a growing number of

websites linked to the insurgency that are carrying statements of support

from leading jihadists such as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, who inspired

Al-Qaeda in Iraq and is now in jail in Jordan.

 

    Such websites, Hahn said, are also used to raise money.

 

    Hahn pointed to the arrest by Czech police in May of eight individuals

in Prague suspected of plotting attacks in the North Caucasus as possible

proof of ties to Al-Qaeda.

 

    The rebels goal is a state called the Caucasus Emirate, stretching from

the Black Sea to the Caspian.

 

    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has labeled the insurgency Russia's

top security threat.

 

    Hahn noted Chechen-born rebel leader Doku Umarov has called for the

Caucasus Emirate to be incorporated into global jihad.

 

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