Monday, Monday

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.archidose.org/wp/">A Weekly Dose of Architecture</a> Updates:</span><br /><br />This week's dose features <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/10/01/slip-house/">Slip House</a> in London, UK by Carl Turner Architects:<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/10/01/slip-house/"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Oct12-01.jpg" style="cursor: move;" title="This week's dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The featured past dose is the <a href="http://www.archidose.org/Jul08/21/dose.html">Carmarthen Place SE1</a> in London, England by Emma Doherty and AiR:<br /><a href="http://www.archidose.org/Jul08/21/dose.html"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://www.archidose.org/Jul08/21/image01.jpg" style="cursor: move;" title="featured past dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />This week's book review is <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/10/01/architecture-in-the-netherlands-yearbook-2011-12/"><i>Architecture in the Netherlands: Yearbook 2011-12</i></a> edited by Samir Bantal, JaapJan Berg, Kees van der Hoeven, Anne Luijten (L):<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/10/01/architecture-in-the-netherlands-yearbook-2011-12/"><img alt="this week's book review" height="300" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/nai25.jpg" style="cursor: move;" title="This week's book review" /></a>   <a href="http://www.archidose.org/books/hunch13.html"><img alt="this week's book review" height="300" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/hunch13.jpg" style="cursor: move;" title="This week's book review" /></a><br />(R): The featured past book review is <a href="http://www.archidose.org/books/hunch13.html"><i>Hunch 13: Consensus edited</i></a> by Salomon Frausto.<br /><br />: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">World-Architects.com U.S. <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/projects/reviews/41">Building of the Week</a>:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.world-architects.com/projects/projects_detail/38342">Kukkla Winery</a> in Paso Robles, California by Studio B Architects:<br /><a href="http://www.world-architects.com/projects/projects_detail/38342"><img alt="this week's Building of the Week" src="http://files3.world-architects.com/projects/38342/images/900:w/kukkula1.jpg" title="Current Building of the Week on american-architects.com" width="640" /></a>

Monday, Monday

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Updates: This week's dose features Slip House in London, UK by Carl Turner Architects: The featured past...

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Love and Friendship are Synonymous

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I’m not a deep man.  No seriously.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMumgv3s8JHWKjYnLXsSNI3NWRiFJ-WO-6a0Vl7QHi8KXxH37Sx4z0Tf77t-ye5t5hk17tTucQyFtL5pna2IZlAFJu9ngBJDBOuA3u5i8mdpVpklQa3Lr1VCkPDim47ubAGmWEu58Ffm8/s1600/friendships.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMumgv3s8JHWKjYnLXsSNI3NWRiFJ-WO-6a0Vl7QHi8KXxH37Sx4z0Tf77t-ye5t5hk17tTucQyFtL5pna2IZlAFJu9ngBJDBOuA3u5i8mdpVpklQa3Lr1VCkPDim47ubAGmWEu58Ffm8/s400/friendships.jpg" width="328" /></a></div><br />Okay, actually I can be, and oft times, am.  Just ask my BFF/OSP Schmoop who will frequently say to me…<br /><br /><i>“Hey Mahoney, could you lighten up, and dumb it down?”</i><br /><br />Sunday evening around 8 as the full moon was rising, the weekend was waning, and after a week of being seriously under the weather, I began to think about something.<br /><br />When I started getting sick last Sunday, the first person who rushed to my ailing, infectious side was my best friend, Schmoop.<br /><br />Without asking for aid, she was there with cold pills, throat lozenges, and more than an annoying amount of asking, <i>“What else can I do for you?”</i><br /><br />As I was less than a normal human being this week, I didn't really notice all she was doing for me this week until Sunday evening as I sat down to figure out something to write.<br /><br />I mean sure, I realized what she was doing for me, but perhaps, the self-pity and selfishness of sickness clouded my vision as to why she was doing what she was doing for me.<br /><br />She was trying make my illness easier on me because she loves me, and she is my friend.  And that love/friendship thing, is exactly what I began to think about Sunday evening.<br /><br />I think it is possible to love somebody or at least think you love somebody without being true, hugging the toilet while throwing up type of friends, in fact, I have heard many times from a wife or husband or significant other…<br /><br /><i>“I don’t like her/him, but I would do anything for her/him, because I love her/him.”</i><br /><br />To me?  That has never made sense.  How can a person love a person and yet, not be their friend, nor like them?  And vice-versa and what not?  And Oy…my head is spinning like a dreidel!!<br /><br />I have come to the realization, that at least where I am concerned, friendship and love have to go hand in hand.  If you are my friend, it’s because I love you and think the world of you.  And if I don’t love you on some level, we are not truly friends.<br /><br />I know, some may find that to be a radical way of looking at friendship and perhaps I thought so as well, until something that happened Sunday night.<br /><br />Shortly after I came home Sunday evening, I heard a noise, looked toward the bathroom, and saw a pale and discombobulated Schmoop looking at me asking for paper towels.<br /><br />She had just with neither warning nor reason, thrown up all over the bathroom.<br /><br />Now, I could have said to myself in the aforementioned manner, <i>“I don’t like her, but I will take her the paper towels to her anyway, because I love her.”</i>…but no.<br /><br />I grabbed the paper towels, told her to get back in bed, and cleaned the mess up myself, because not only do I love her, she is my friend…and that is what friends do.<br /><br />I’m sure my epiphany about friendship and love can be attributed to the emotional frailties of aging and a post-illness recovery, but that matters to me not, because regardless of its impetus or origins, I believe it.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9oGdsHY03HxO7J8W1ilgQopIYKptUb98hej2OjhT4tLHBXdQy953v2dvZBxuwjOiyeyYbsNCgT_0YLQ1-Qn3_Q9vc2lETzbtU0jfoemmwV-G9sF1nGB4tUX5Mh8aXQTihEIX0UHZn4do/s1600/FB+List.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9oGdsHY03HxO7J8W1ilgQopIYKptUb98hej2OjhT4tLHBXdQy953v2dvZBxuwjOiyeyYbsNCgT_0YLQ1-Qn3_Q9vc2lETzbtU0jfoemmwV-G9sF1nGB4tUX5Mh8aXQTihEIX0UHZn4do/s320/FB+List.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>And…I am going to honor that belief by doing the following…<br /><br />Beginning today, I am going to purge my list of people whom I may have previously called, friends.<br /><br />In life, on Facebook, in whatever manner of speaking…if I cannot without hesitation nor awkward feeling, say unto a person, <i>“Love you Buddy.  Love you pal, or just plain, I Love you.”</i>, it means that that person and I are something less than friends.<br /><br />It doesn't mean I don’t like a person, it just means, as I grow older, I am narrowing and honing my definition of what and who constitutes a friend.<br /><br />And really?  Is that so bad?<br /><br /><i>Cheers!!</i><br /><br /><i>Matt-Man</i><br /><i><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a></i><br /><i><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank">@MattMan_IWS</a></span></i><br /><i><br /></i> <i>And in case you missed it...Jayman and I did one helluva radio show yesterday as we discussed medical maladies.  It was laid back and hilarious, so if you missed it, you can catch it here:</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.adobe.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" height="105" id="143577" name="143577" width="210"><param name="movie" value="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf?file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogtalkradio.com%2Fim-with-stupid%2F2012%2F09%2F30%2Fa-couple-of-sickos%2Fplaylist.xml&autostart=false&bufferlength=5&volume=80&corner=rounded&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/flashplayercallback.aspx" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf" flashvars="file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogtalkradio.com%2Fim-with-stupid%2F2012%2F09%2F30%2Fa-couple-of-sickos%2fplaylist.xml&autostart=false&shuffle=false&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/FlashPlayerCallback.aspx&width=210&height=105&volume=80&corner=rounded" width="210" height="105" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" wmode="transparent" menu="false" name="143577" id="143577" allowScriptAccess="always"></embed></object></div><div style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center; width: 220px;"><br /></div></div>

Love and Friendship are Synonymous

I’m not a deep man.  No seriously. Okay, actually I can be, and oft times, am.  Just ask my BFF/OSP Schmoop who will frequently say to me… “...

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DAGESTAN: SYRIA COMES TO RUSSIA...

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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcMv_eyYHfQB4Ju77fewA0URuU-k7tn1j9jylSgqRWUMJCfuKNdQVF1rCYYJL-ynPBVuoDbrr9D7bG_oNoRVU6zxZyypdSE4r-_2PDvL6N7rYtNEP7VH_tkx-88A17plNS2BDX73Cv4ajb/s1600/Russia_Balkans_Caucasus_800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> <span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SALAFISM AND THE US INTELLIGENCE SERVICES: </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THE WINNING FORMULA TO DESTABILIZE RUSSIA’S CAUCASUS AND THE MIDDLE EAST </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">F. William Engdahl</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The assassination of the most respected <b>Sufi </b>religious leader in DAGESTAN, RUSSIA’S volatile CAUCASUS, comes as <b>Salafis</b>t jihadists in LIBYA murder a US Ambassador who was actually a key player in ousting Gaddafi and bringing the <b>Salafist Muslim Brotherhood</b> and <b>Jihadists </b>into power. Throughout the entire Islamic world today, a wave of hate is being unleashed in the name of Islamic fundamentalism that could bring about a new worldwide crisis. This is the consequence of the <b>Greater Middle East Project</b> put in play in 2010 and earlier by circles in Washington and London. Manipulating religious fervor is an explosive cocktail. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SYRIA COMES TO THE RUSSIAN CAUCASUS</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On August 28 Sheikh Said Afandi, acknowledged spiritual leader of the Autonomous RUSSIAN REPUBLIC OF DAGESTAN, was assassinated. A jihadist female suicide bomber managed to enter his house and detonate an explosive device.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The murder target had been carefully selected. Sheikh Afandi, a seventy-five-year old <b>Sufi </b>Muslim leader, had played the critical role in attempting to bring about reconciliation in DAGESTAN between <b>jihadist Salafi Sunni</b> Muslims and other factions, many of whom in DAGESTAN see themselves as followers of <b>Sufi</b>. With no replacement of his moral stature and respect visible, authorities fear possible outbreak of religious war in the tiny RUSSIAN autonomous republic. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The police reported that the assassin was an ethnic RUSSIAN woman who had converted to Islam and was linked to an Islamic fundamentalist or <b>Salafist </b>insurgency against RUSSIA and regional governments loyal to Moscow in the autonomous republics and across the volatile Muslim-populated NORTH CAUCASUS region.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTl8uh1nQHC3m8eQ6MM4_7vUWTSAjVv_GKOgvLfrXn0G-6i7XTG-Cb09k4LOiGD9YDFI60_MMAzzRQZAyH63F-btZyKcNEBdRmqqfH8Gpfn8zb4tN-tgYiej9NCq3BoyimCh5DYOtVRX9a/s1600/dagestan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTl8uh1nQHC3m8eQ6MM4_7vUWTSAjVv_GKOgvLfrXn0G-6i7XTG-Cb09k4LOiGD9YDFI60_MMAzzRQZAyH63F-btZyKcNEBdRmqqfH8Gpfn8zb4tN-tgYiej9NCq3BoyimCh5DYOtVRX9a/s400/dagestan.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ethnic Muslim populations in this region of RUSSIA and of the former SOVIET UNION, including UZBEKISTAN, KYRGYSTAN and into CHINA’S Xinjiang Province, have been the target of various US and NATO intelligence operations since the Cold War era ended in 1990. Washington sees manipulation of Muslim groups as the vehicle to bring uncontrollable chaos to RUSSIA and CENTRAL ASIA. It’s being carried out by some of the same organizations engaged in creating chaos and destruction inside SYRIA against the government of <b>Bashar Al-Assad</b>. In a real sense, as RUSSIAN security services clearly understand, if they don’t succeed in stopping the Jihadists insurgency in SYRIA, it will come home to them via the CAUCASUS.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The latest <b>Salafist</b> murders of <b>Sufi</b>and other moderate Muslim leaders in the CAUCASUS are apparently part of what is becoming ever clearer as perhaps the most dangerous US intelligence operation ever—playing globally with Muslim fundamentalism.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Previously US and allied intelligence services had played fast and loose with religious organizations or beliefs in one or another country. What makes the present situation particularly dangerous—notably since the decision in Washington to unleash the misnamed <b>Arab Spring</b> upheavals that began in TUNISIA late 2010, spreading like a brushfire across the entire Islamic world from AFGHANISTAN across CENTRAL ASIA to MOROCCO—is the incalculable wave upon wave of killing, hatreds, destruction of entire cultures that Washington has unleashed in the name of that elusive dream named “democracy.” They do this using alleged <b>Al-Qaeda</b>groups, SAUDI <b>Salafists </b>or <b>Wahhabites,</b> or using disciples of TURKEY’S <b>Fethullah Gülen Movement</b> to ignite fires of religious hatred within Islam and against other faiths that could take decades to extinguish. It could easily spill over into a new World War.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">See: </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fethullah_G%C3%BClen"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fethullah_G%C3%BClen</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">FUNDAMENTALISM COMES TO CAUCASUS</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Following the dissolution of the USSR, radical AFGHANISTANI Mujahadeen, Islamists from SAUDI ARABIA, from TURKEY, PAKISTAN and other Islamic countries flooded into the Muslim regions of the former USSR. One of the best-organized of these was the <b>Gülen Movement of Fethullah Gülen</b>, leader of a global network of Islamic schools and reported to be the major policy influence on TURKEY’S Erdogan AKP party.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">See: </span><a href="http://www.meforum.org/2045/fethullah-gulens-grand-ambition"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">http://www.meforum.org/2045/fethullah-gulens-grand-ambition</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcMv_eyYHfQB4Ju77fewA0URuU-k7tn1j9jylSgqRWUMJCfuKNdQVF1rCYYJL-ynPBVuoDbrr9D7bG_oNoRVU6zxZyypdSE4r-_2PDvL6N7rYtNEP7VH_tkx-88A17plNS2BDX73Cv4ajb/s1600/Russia_Balkans_Caucasus_800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcMv_eyYHfQB4Ju77fewA0URuU-k7tn1j9jylSgqRWUMJCfuKNdQVF1rCYYJL-ynPBVuoDbrr9D7bG_oNoRVU6zxZyypdSE4r-_2PDvL6N7rYtNEP7VH_tkx-88A17plNS2BDX73Cv4ajb/s640/Russia_Balkans_Caucasus_800.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gülen was quick to establish The International DAHGESTANI-TURKISH College in DAGESTAN. During the chaotic days after the SOVIET collapse, the Ministry of Justice of the RUSSIAN FEDERATION officially registered and permitted unfettered activity for a variety of Islamic foundations and organizations. These included the <b>League of the Islamic World</b>, the <b>World Muslim Youth Assembly</b>, the reportedly <b>Al-Qaeda</b> friendly SAUDI foundation ‘<b>Ibrahim ben Abd al-Aziz al-Ibrahim</b>.’ The blacklist also included Al-Haramein a SAUDI foundation reported tied to <b>Al-Qaeda</b>, and IHH, [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb2" title="Mairbek Vatchagaev, "The Kremlin’s War on Islamic Education in the North (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] a Turkish organization banned in GERMANY, that allegedly raised funds for <b>jihadi fighters</b> in BOSNIA, CHECHNYA, and AFGHANISTAN, and was charged by FRENCH intelligence of ties to <b>Al Qaeda</b>. [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb3" title="Iason Athanasiadis, "Targeted by Israeli raid: Who is the IHH?," The (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Many of these charities were covers for fundamentalist <b>Salafists</b>with their own special agenda.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As many of the foreign Islamists in CHECHNYA and DAGESTAN were found involved in fomenting the regional unrest and civil war, RUSSIAN authorities withdrew permission of most to run schools and institutions. Throughout the NORTH CAUCASUS at the time of the CHECHYN war in the late 1990’s, there were more than two dozen Islamic institutes, some 200 <i>madrassas</i>and numerous <i>maktabas</i> (Koranic study schools) present at almost all mosques.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The International DAGESTANI-TURKISH College was one that was forced to close its doors in DAGESTAN. The College was run by the <b>Fethullah Gülen organization</b>. [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb4" title="Ibid."><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">At the point of the RUSSIAN crackdown on the spread of Salafist teaching inside RUSSIA at the end of the 1990’s, there was an exodus of hundreds of young DAGESTANI and CHECHYN Muslim students to TURKEY, SAUDI ARABIA, PAKISTAN and other places in the MIDDLE EAST, reportedly to receive training with the <b>Gülen movement</b> and various SAUDI-financed organizations, including <b>Salafists</b>. [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb5" title="Mairbek Vatchagaev, op. cit."><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">5</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] It is believed in RUSSIA that the students trained by Gülen supporters or SAUDI and other <b>Salafist </b>fundamentalist centers then were sent back to DAGESTAN and the NORTH CAUCASUS to spread their radical strain of Islam.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By 2005 the situation in the CAUCASUS was so influenced by this <b>Salafist </b>intervention that the CHECHEN <b>Salafist, Doku Umarov</b>, cited by the UN Security Council for links to <b>Al-Qaeda</b>, [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb6" title="UN Security Council, QI.U.290.11. DOKU KHAMATOVICH UMAROV, 10 March 2011. (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">6</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] unilaterally declared creation of what he called the CAUCASUS EMIRATE, announcing he planned to establish an Islamic state under <b>Sharia</b> law encompassing the entire NORTH CAUCASUS region including DAGESTAN. He modestly proclaimed himself Emir of the CAUCASUS EMIRATE. [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb7" title="Tom Jones, "Czech NGO rejects Russian reports of link to alleged Islamist (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">7</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SALAFISM AT WAR WITH SUFI TRADITION</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Salafism,</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">known in SAUDI ARABIA as <b>Wahhabism</b>, is a fundamentalist strain of Islam which drew world attention and became notorious in March 2001 just weeks before the attacks of September 11. That was when the <b>Salafist Taliban</b> government in AFGHANISTAN willfully dynamited and destroyed the historic gigantic Buddhas of Bamiyan on the ancient Silk Road, religious statues dating from the 6th Century. The <b>Taliban Salafist</b>leaders also banned as “un-islamic” all forms of imagery, music and sports, including television, in accordance with what they considered a strict interpretation of Sharia.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">AFGHANI sources reported that the order to destroy the Buddhas was made by SAUDI-born jihadist <b>Wahhabite</b>, <b>Osama bin Laden</b>, who ultimately convinced Mullah Omar, <b>Taliban</b> supreme leader at the time to execute the act. [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb8" title="The Times of India, "Laden ordered Bamyan Buddha destruction," March 28, (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">8</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">While <b>Sufis</b> incorporate the worship of saints and theatrical ceremonial prayers into their practice, <b>Salafis</b>condemn as idolatry any non-traditional forms of worship. They also call for the establishment of Islamic political rule and strict <b>Sharia</b> law. <b>Sufism</b> is home to the great spiritual and musical heritage of Islam, said by Islamic scholars to be the inner, mystical, or psycho-spiritual dimension of Islam, going back centuries.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As one <b>Sufi </b>scholar described the core of <b>Sufism</b>, “<i>While all Muslims believe that they are on the pathway to God and will become close to God in Paradise—after death and the ‘Final Judgment’— Sufis believe as well that it is possible to become close to God and to experience this closeness—while one is alive. Furthermore, the attainment of the knowledge that comes with such intimacy with God, Sufis assert, is the very purpose of the creation. Here they mention the hadith qudsi in which God states, ‘I was a hidden treasure and I loved that I be known, so I created the creation in order to be known.’ Hence for the Sufis there is already a momentum, a continuous attraction on their hearts exerted by God, pulling them, in love, towards God</i>.” [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb9" title="Dr. Alan Godlas, "Sufism — Sufis — Sufi Orders.""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">9</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The mystical Islamic current of <b>Sufism</b> and its striving to become close to or one with God is in stark contrast to the <b>Jihadist Salafi</b> or <b>Wahhabi </b>current that is armed with deadly weapons, preaches a false doctrine of jihad, and a perverse sense of martyrdom, committing countless acts of violence. Little wonder that the victims of <b>Salafist Jihads</b> are mostly other pacific forms of Islam including most especially <b>Sufis.</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">GEOSTRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS: RUSSIA’S NIGHTMARE SCENARIO OF “SYRIA COMING TO RUSSIA.”</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The respected seventy-five year old <b>Afandi</b> had publicly denounced <b>Salafist Islamic</b> fundamentalism. His murder followed a July 19 coordinated attack on two high-ranking muftis in the RUSSIAN VOLGA REPUBLIC of TATARSTAN. Both victims were state-approved religious leaders who had attacked radical Islam. This latest round of murders opens a new front in the <b>Salafist</b> war against RUSSIA, namely attacks on moderate <b>Sufi </b>Muslim leaders.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioLhl1nGp10Xmh0tKoJS6iNPWs3kBLlfFcEQAP_oN4DdRkHp1kGhg0C4uW-CGCZktovbUVG9qq3y-mhW3PAn_7kn5q0mWMRE6-u-zd9b2THsoL_rX3qC4cKlri6dMRKMGR9xDd4ik9zjke/s1600/dagestan-map.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioLhl1nGp10Xmh0tKoJS6iNPWs3kBLlfFcEQAP_oN4DdRkHp1kGhg0C4uW-CGCZktovbUVG9qq3y-mhW3PAn_7kn5q0mWMRE6-u-zd9b2THsoL_rX3qC4cKlri6dMRKMGR9xDd4ik9zjke/s400/dagestan-map.gif" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Whether or not DAGESTAN now descends into internal religious civil war that then spreads across the geopolitically sensitive RUSSIAN CAUCASUS is not yet certain. What is almost certain is that the same circles who have been feeding violence and terror inside SYRIA against the regime of <b>Alawite </b>President <b>Bashar al-Assad</b> are behind the killing of <b>Sheikh Afandi</b> as well as sparking related acts of terror or unrest across RUSSIA’S Muslim-populated CAUCASUS. In a very real sense it represents RUSSIA’S nightmare scenario of “SYRIA coming to RUSSIA.” It demonstrates dramatically why Putin has made such a determined effort to stop a descent into a murderous hell in SYRIA.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SALAFISM AND US INTELLIGENCE SERVICES</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The existence of the so-called <b>jihadist Salafi</b> brand of Islam in DAGESTAN is quite recent. It has also been deliberately imported. Salafism is sometimes also called the name of the older SAUDI-centered <b>Wahhabism. Wahhabism</b> is a minority originally-Bedouin form of the faith originating within Islam, dominant in SAUDI ARABIA since the 1700’s.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> The Centre for Islamic Pluralism give the following description of SAUDI conditions under the rigid <b>Wahhabi </b>brand of Islam:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> “<i>Women living under SAUDI rule must wear the abaya, or total body cloak, and niqab, the face veil; they have limited opportunities for schooling and careers; they are prohibited from driving vehicles; are banned from social contact with men not relatives, and all personal activity must be supervised including opening bank accounts, by a male family member or "guardian." These <b>Wahhabi</b> rules are enforced by a mutawiyin, or morals militia, also known as "the religious police," officially designated the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) who patrol SAUDI cities, armed with leather-covered sticks which they freely used against those they considered wayward. They raid homes looking for alcohol and drugs, and harassed non-<b>Wahhabi</b> Muslims as well as believers in other faiths</i>.” [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb10" title="Irfan Al-Alawi and Stephen Schwartz, "Wahhabi Internal Contradictions as (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">10</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It’s widely reported that the obscenely opulent and morally-perhaps-not-entirely-of- the-highest-standards SAUDI <b>Royal Family</b> made a Faustian deal with <b>Wahhabite</b> leaders. The deal supposedly, was that the <b>Wahhabists</b>are free to export their fanatical brand of Islam around to the Islamic populations of the world in return for agreeing to leave the SAUDI Royals alone. [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb11" title="Ibid."><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">11</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] There are, however, other dark and dirty spoons stirring the <b>Wahhabite-Salafist</b> SAUDI stew.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix9wDTeqCq-dzmM45OWgIUqBDEw0x9UbheNspa7z1yNICr_y0jaybB-dez2sEHr2RRrAWhuqPyDSKCyB9rldf_FoEaYz2SqiiNJ-LJ511_UOV7sbW6szcJg3kXKN819QcVKmEgk7fLDEuX/s1600/20110202_CIAMB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix9wDTeqCq-dzmM45OWgIUqBDEw0x9UbheNspa7z1yNICr_y0jaybB-dez2sEHr2RRrAWhuqPyDSKCyB9rldf_FoEaYz2SqiiNJ-LJ511_UOV7sbW6szcJg3kXKN819QcVKmEgk7fLDEuX/s200/20110202_CIAMB.jpg" width="196" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">alleged close ties between the  CIA and Saudi Arabia</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Little known is the fact that the present form of aggressive SAUDI <b>Wahhabism</b>, in reality a kind of fusion between imported <b>jihadi Salafists</b> from EGYPT’S <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b> and the fundamentalist SAUDI <b>Wahhabites</b>. Leading Salafist members of the EGYPTIAN <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b> were introduced into the SAUDI Kingdom in the 1950’s by the CIA in a complex series of events, when Nasser cracked down on the <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b> following an assassination attempt. By the 1960’s an influx of EGYPTIAN members of the <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b> in SAUDI ARABIA fleeing Nasserite repression, had filled many of the leading teaching posts in SAUDI religious schools. One student there was a young well-to-do SAUDI, <b>Osama bin Laden</b>. [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb12" title="Robert Duncan, "Islamic Terrorisms Links to Nazi Fascism," AINA, July 5, (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">12</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">See: </span><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/saudi-arabia-origin-of-wahhabism.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/08/saudi-arabia-origin-of-wahhabism.html</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">During the Third Reich, Hitler GERMANY had supported the <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b>as a weapon against the BRITISH in EGYPT and elsewhere in the MIDDLE EAST. Marc Erikson describes the Nazi roots of the EGYPTIAN <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b> thus:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">…as ITALIAN and GERMAN fascism sought greater stakes in the MIDDLE EAST in the 1930s and ’40s to counter BRITISH and FRENCH controlling power, close collaboration between fascist agents and Islamist leaders ensued. During the 1936-39 ARAB Revolt, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of GERMAN military intelligence, sent agents and money to support the Palestine uprising against the BRITISH, as did <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b> founder and "supreme guide" Hassan al-Banna. A key individual in the fascist-Islamist nexus and go-between for the Nazis and al-Banna became the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb13" title="Marc Erikson, "Islamism, fascism and terrorism (Part 2)," AsiaTimes.Online, (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">13</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">After the defeat of GERMANY, BRITISH Intelligence moved in to take over control of the <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b>. Ultimately, for financial and other reasons, the BRITISH decided to hand their assets within the <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b> over to their CIA colleagues in the 1950s. [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb14" title="Ibid."><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">14</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">According to former US Justice Department Nazi researcher John Loftus, “<i>during the 1950s, the CIA evacuated the Nazis of the <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b>to SAUDI ARABIA. Now, when they arrived in SAUDI ARABIA, some of the leading lights of the <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b>, like Dr Abdullah Azzam, became the teachers in the madrassas, the religious schools. And there they combined the doctrines of Nazism with this weird Islamic cult, <b>Wahhabism</b></i>." [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb15" title="John Loftus, "The Muslim Brotherhood, Nazis and Al-Qaeda," Jewish (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">15</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"<i>Everyone thinks that Islam is this fanatical religion, but it is not</i>,” Loftus continues. “<i>They think that Islam—the SAUDI version of Islam—is typical, but it’s not. The <b>Wahhabi </b>cult has been condemned as a heresy more than 60 times by the Muslim nations. But when the SAUDIS got wealthy, they bought a lot of silence. This is a very harsh cult. <b>Wahhabism</b> was only practised by the Taliban and in SAUDI ARABIA—that’s how extreme it is. It really has nothing to do with Islam. Islam is a very peaceful and tolerant religion. It always had good relationships with the Jews for the first thousand years of its existence</i>." [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb16" title="Ibid."><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">16</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“SYRIAN NATIONAL COUNCIL”, DOMINATED IN REALITY BY THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Loftus identified the significance of what today is emerging from the shadows to take over EGYPT under <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b> President Morsi, and the so-called SYRIAN National Council, dominated in reality by the <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b> and publicly led by the more “politically correct” or presentable likes of Bassma Kodmani. Kodmani, foreign affairs spokesman for the SNC was twice an invited guest at the <b>Bilderberg </b>elite gathering, latest in Chantilly, Virginia earlier this year. [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb17" title="Charlie Skelton, "The Syrian opposition: who’s doing the talking?: The media (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">17</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">See: </span><a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7e8_1340742492"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7e8_1340742492</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The most bizarre and alarming feature of the US-financed regime changes set into motion in 2010, which have led to the destruction of the secular ARAB regime of <b>Hosni Mubarak</b> in EGYPT and <b>Muhammar Qaddafi</b> in LIBYA, and the secular regime of President <b>Ben Ali</b> in TUNISIA, and which have wreaked savage destruction across the MIDDLE EAST, especially in the past eighteen months in SYRIA, is the pattern of emerging power grabs by representatives of the murky <b>Salafist Muslim Brotherhood</b>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By informed accounts, a SAUDI-financed <b>Sunni Islamic Muslim Brotherhood</b>dominates the members of the exile SYRIAN National Council that is backed by the US State Department’s <b>Secretary Clinton</b> and by <b>Hollande’s </b>FRANCE. The SYRIAN <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b> is tied, not surprisingly to the EGYPTIAN <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b> of President <b>Mohammed Morsi</b> who recently in a meeting of the Non-Aligned in IRAN called openly for the removal of SYRIA’S <b>Assad,</b> a logical step if his <b>Muslim Brothers</b>in the present SYRIAN National Council are to take the reins of power. The SAUDIS are also rumored to have financed the ascent to power in TUNISIA of the governing Islamist <b>Ennahda Party</b>, [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb18" title="Aidan Lewis, "Profile: Tunisia’s Ennahda Party," BBC News, 25 October (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">18</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] and are documented to be financing the <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b>-dominated SYRIAN National Council against President <b>Bashar al-Assad.</b> [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb19" title="Hassan Hassan, "Syrians are torn between a despotic regime and a stagnant (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">19</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">MORSI’S REIGN OF SALAFI TERROR</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Indicative of the true agenda of this <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b> and related jihadists today is the fact that once they have power, they drop the veil of moderation and reconciliation and reveal their violently intolerant roots. This is visible in EGYPT today under <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b> President <b>Mohammed Morsi</b>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Unreported in mainstream Western media to date are alarming direct reports from Christian missionary organizations in EGYPT that <b>Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood</b> has already begun to drop the veil of “moderation and conciliation” and show its brutal totalitarian <b>Salafist</b> colors, much as <b>Khomeini’s</b>radical <b>Sharia </b>forces did in IRAN after taking control in 1979-81.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In a letter distributed by the Christian Aid Mission (CAM), a Christian EGYPTIAN missionary wrote that <b>Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood</b>"announced they would destroy the country if <b>Morsi</b> didn’t win, but they also said they will take revenge from all those who voted for [his opponent Ahmed] <b>Shafiq,</b> especially the Christians as they are sure we did vote for <b>Shafiq</b>. Yesterday they began by killing two believers in el <b>Sharqiya </b>because of this," the missionary added, speaking on condition of anonymity. [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb20" title="Stefan J. Bos, "Egypt Christians Killed After Election of Morsi," (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">20</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This report came only weeks after EGYPTIAN State TV (under <b>Morsi’s</b> control) showed ghastly video footage of a convert from Islam to Christianity being murdered by Muslims. The footage showed a young man being held down by masked men with a knife to his throat. As one man was heard chanting Muslim prayers in ARABIC, mostly condemning Christianity, another man holding the knife to the Christian convert’s throat began to cut, slowly severing the head amid cries of “<i>Allahu Akbar</i>” (“Allah is great”), according to transcripts. In the letter, the EGYPTIAN missionary leader added that, "<i>soon after <b>Morsi </b>won, Christians in upper EGYPT were forcibly prevented from going to churches</i>.” Many Muslims, the letter claimed, "<i>also began to speak to women in the streets that they had to wear Islamic clothing including the head covering. They act as if they got the country for their own, it’s theirs now</i>." [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb21" title="Ibid."><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">21</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Already in 2011 <b>Morsi’s Salafist</b> followers began attacking and destroying Sufi mosques across EGYPT. According to the authoritative newspaper <i>Al-Masry Al-Youm</i> (Today’s EGYPTIAN), 16 historic mosques in Alexandria belonging to <b>Sufi </b>orders have been marked for destruction by so-called ’<b>Salafis</b>’. Alexandria has 40 mosques associated with <b>Sufis,</b>and is the headquarters for 36 <b>Sufi</b>groups. Half a million <b>Sufis</b> live in the city, out of a municipal total of four million people. Aggression against the <b>Sufis</b> in EGYPT has included a raid on Alexandria’s most distinguished mosque, named for, and housing, the tomb of the 13th century <b>Sufi Al-Mursi Abu’l Abbas</b>. [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb22" title="Irfan Al-Alawi, "Egyptian Muslim Fundamentalists Attack Sufis," Guardian (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">22</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Notably, the so-called “democratically elected” regime in LIBYA following the toppling of Mohamar Qaddafi by NATO bombs in 2011, has also been zealous in destroying Sufi mosques and places of worship. In August this year, UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova expressed “grave concern” at the destruction by Islamic Jihadists of <b>Sufi </b>sites in Zliten, Misrata and Tripoli and urged perpetrators to “cease the destruction immediately.” [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb23" title="Yafiah Katherine Randall, "UNESCO urges Libya to stop destruction of Sufi (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">23</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Under behind-the-scenes machinations the LIBYAN government is dominated by Jihadists and by followers of the <b>Muslim Brotherhood</b>, as in TUNISIA and EGYPT. [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb24" title="Jamie Dettmer, Libya elections: Muslim Brotherhood set to lead government, (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">24</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The explosive cocktail of violence inherent in allowing the rise to power of <b>Salafist</b>Islamists across the MIDDLE EAST was clear to see, symbolically enough on the night of September 11th when a mob of angry supporters of the fanatical <b>Salafist </b>group, <b>Ansar Al-Sharia</b>, murdered the US Ambassador to LIBYA and three US diplomats, burning the US Consulate in Bengazi to the ground in protest over a YouTube release of a film by an American filmmaker showing the Prophet Mohammed indulging in multiple sex affairs and casting doubt on his role as God’s messenger. Ironically that US Ambassador had played a key role in toppling <b>Qaddafi </b>and opening the door to the <b>Salafist</b> takeover in LIBYA. At the same time angry mobs of thousands of <b>Salafists </b>surrounded the US Embassy in Cairo in protest to the US film. [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb25" title="Luke Harding, Chris Stephen, Chris Stevens, "US ambassador to Libya, killed (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">25</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ansar Al-Sharia</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">("Partisans of Islamic law" in Arabic) reportedly is a spinoff of <b>Al-Qaeda</b> and claims organizations across the MIDDLE EAST from YEMEN to TUNISIA to IRAQ, EGYPT and LIBYA. <b>Ansar al-Sharia</b> says it is reproducing the model of <b>Sharia</b> or strict Islamic law espoused by the <b>Taliban</b>in AFGHANISTAN and the Islamic State of IRAQ, a militant umbrella group that includes <b>al-Qaeda</b> in IRAQ. The core of the group are jihadists who came out of an "Islamic state", either in AFGHANISTAN in the mid-1990s, or among jihadists in IRAQ after the US-led invasion in 2003. [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb26" title="Murad Batal al-Shishani, "Profile: Ansar al-Sharia in Yemen," BBC, 8 March (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">26</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The deliberate detonation now of a new round of <b>Salafist </b>fundamentalist Jihad terror inside Muslim regions of the RUSSIAN CAUCASUS is exquisitely timed politically to put maximum pressure at home on the government of Russia.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Russian Government is the strongest and most essential backer of the current SYRIAN government of <b>Bashar al-Assad</b>, and for RUSSIA as well the maintenance of RUSSIA’S only Mediterranean naval base at SYRIA’S Tartus port is vital strategically. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">HARD COP - SOFT COP TACTICS</span></span></b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">At the same time, Obama’s sly message to Medvedev to wait until Obama’s re-election to evaluate US intent towards RUSSIA and Putin’s cryptic recent comment that a compromise with a re-elected President Obama might be possible, but not with a President Romney, [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb27" title="David M. Herszenhorn, Putin Says Missile Deal Is More Likely With Obama, (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">27</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] indicate that the Washington “stick-and-carrot” or hard cop-soft cop tactics with Moscow might tempt RUSSIA to sacrifice major geopolitical alliances, perhaps even that special close and recent geopolitical alliance with CHINA. [</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nb28" title="M.K. Bhadrakumar, "Calling the China-Russia split isn’t heresy," Asia Times, (...)"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">28</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Were that to happen, the World might witness a “reset” in US-RUSSIAN relations with catastrophic consequences for world peace.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh2" title="Footnotes 2"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Mairbek Vatchagaev, </span><a href="http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5btt_news"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"The Kremlin’s War on Islamic Education in the North Caucasus</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">=3334]," <i>North Caucasus Analysis Volume</i>: 7 Issue: 34.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh3" title="Footnotes 3"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Iason Athanasiadis, "</span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0601/Targeted-by-Israeli-raid-Who-is-the-IHH"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Targeted by Israeli raid: Who is the IHH?</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">," <i>The Christian Science Monitor</i>, June 1, 2010.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh4" title="Footnotes 4"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">4</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] <i>Ibid.</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh5" title="Footnotes 5"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">5</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Mairbek Vatchagaev, <i>op. cit.</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh6" title="Footnotes 6"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">6</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] UN Security Council, </span><a href="http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/NSQI29011E.shtml"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">QI.U.290.11. DOKU KHAMATOVICH UMAROV</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, 10 March 2011. The UN statement reads: “<i>Doku Khamatovich Umarov was listed on 10 March 2011 pursuant to paragraph 2 of resolution 1904 (2009) as being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of”, “recruiting for”, “supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to” and “otherwise supporting acts or activities of” the Islamic Jihad Group (QE.I.119.05), the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (QE.I.10.01), Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs (RSRSBCM) (QE.R.100.03) and Emarat Kavkaz (QE.E.131.11)</i>.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh7" title="Footnotes 7"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">7</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Tom Jones, "</span><a href="http://www.ceskapozice.cz/en/news/society/czech-ngo-rejects-russian-reports-link-alleged-islamist-terrorists-al-qaeda?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=enprofil&utm_campaign=twennews"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Czech NGO rejects Russian reports of link to alleged Islamist terrorists al-Qaeda</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">," May 10, 2011.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh8" title="Footnotes 8"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">8</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] <i>The Times of India</i>, "Laden ordered Bamyan Buddha destruction," March 28, 2006.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh9" title="Footnotes 9"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">9</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Dr. Alan Godlas, "Sufism — Sufis — Sufi Orders."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh10" title="Footnotes 10"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">10</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Irfan Al-Alawi and Stephen Schwartz, "</span><a href="http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2040/wahhabi-internal-contradictions-as-saudi-arabia"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Wahhabi Internal Contradictions as Saudi Arabia Seeks Wider Gulf Leadership</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">," <i>Center for Islamic Pluralism</i>, May 21, 2012.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh11" title="Footnotes 11"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">11</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] <i>Ibid</i>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh12" title="Footnotes 12"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">12</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Robert Duncan, "</span><a href="http://www.aina.org/news/2007070595517.htm"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Islamic Terrorisms Links to Nazi Fascism</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">," <i>AINA</i>, July 5, 2007.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh13" title="Footnotes 13"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">13</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Marc Erikson, "</span><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DK08Ak03.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Islamism, fascism and terrorism (Part 2)</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">," <i>AsiaTimes.Online</i>, November 8, 2002.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh14" title="Footnotes 14"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">14</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] <i>Ibid.</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh15" title="Footnotes 15"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">15</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] John Loftus, "</span><a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/loftus101106.htm"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Muslim Brotherhood, Nazis and Al-Qaeda</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">," <i>Jewish Community News</i>, October 11, 2006.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh16" title="Footnotes 16"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">16</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] <i>Ibid</i>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh17" title="Footnotes 17"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">17</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Charlie Skelton, "</span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/12/syrian-opposition-doing-the-talking"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Syrian opposition: who’s doing the talking?: The media have been too passive when it comes to Syrian opposition sources, without scrutinising their backgrounds and their political connections. Time for a closer look …</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">," <i>The Guardian</i>, UK, 12 July 2012.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh18" title="Footnotes 18"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">18</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Aidan Lewis, "</span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15442859"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Profile: Tunisia’s Ennahda Party</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">," <i>BBC News</i>, 25 October 2011.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh19" title="Footnotes 19"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">19</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Hassan Hassan, "</span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/23/syrians-torn-despotic-regime-stagnant-opposition"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Syrians are torn between a despotic regime and a stagnant opposition: The Muslim Brotherhood’s perceived monopoly over the Syrian National Council has created an opposition stalemate</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">," <i>The Guardian</i>, UK, 23 August, 2012.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh20" title="Footnotes 20"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">20</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Stefan J. Bos, "</span><a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/22304-egypt-christians-killed-after-election-morsi"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Egypt Christians Killed After Election of Morsi</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">," <i>Bosnewslife</i>, June 30, 2012.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh21" title="Footnotes 21"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">21</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] <i>Ibid</i>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh22" title="Footnotes 22"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">22</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Irfan Al-Alawi, "</span><a href="http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1770/egyptian-Muslim-fundamentalists-attack-sufis"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Egyptian Muslim Fundamentalists Attack Sufis</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">," <i>Guardian Online</i> [London], April 11, 2011.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh23" title="Footnotes 23"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">23</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Yafiah Katherine Randall, "</span><a href="http://sufinews.blogspot.de/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">UNESCO urges Libya to stop destruction of Sufi sites</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">," <i>Sufi News and Sufism World Report</i>, August 31, 2012.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh24" title="Footnotes 24"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">24</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Jamie Dettmer, </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/9379022/Libya-elections-Muslim-Brotherhood-set-to-lead-government.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Libya elections: Muslim Brotherhood set to lead government</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, <i>The Telegraph</i>, London, 5 July, 2012.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh25" title="Footnotes 25"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">25</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Luke Harding, Chris Stephen, Chris Stevens, "</span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/12/chris-stevens-us-ambassador-libya-killed"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">US ambassador to Libya, killed in Benghazi attack: Ambassador and three other American embassy staff killed after Islamist militants fired rockets at their car, say Libyan officials</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">," <i>The Guardian</i> (London), 12 September 2012.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh26" title="Footnotes 26"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">26</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] Murad Batal al-Shishani, "</span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17402856"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Profile: Ansar al-Sharia in Yemen</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">," <i>BBC</i>, 8 March 2012.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh27" title="Footnotes 27"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">27</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] David M. Herszenhorn, </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/world/europe/putin-calls-missile-deal-more-likely-if-obama-wins.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Putin Says Missile Deal Is More Likely With Obama</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, <i>The New York Times</i>, September 6, 2012. According to an interview Putin gave on Moscow’s state-owned <i>RT TV</i>, Herszenhorn reports, “<i>Mr. Putin said he believed that if Mr. Obama is re-elected in November, a compromise could be reached on the contentious issue of American plans for a missile defense system in Europe, which Russia has strongly opposed. On the other hand, Mr. Putin said, if Mr. Romney becomes president, Moscow’s fears about the missile system — that it is, despite American assurances, actually directed against Russia — would almost certainly prove true. <br />“Is it possible to find a solution to the problem, if current President Obama is re-elected for a second term? Theoretically, yes,” Mr. Putin said, according to the official transcript posted on the Kremlin’s Web site. “But this isn’t just about President Obama. “For all I know, his desire to work out a solution is quite sincere,” Mr. Putin continued. “I met him recently on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, where we had a chance to talk. And though we talked mostly about Syria, I could still take stock of my counterpart. My feeling is that he is a very honest man, and that he sincerely wants to make many good changes. But can he do it? Will they let him do it?</i>”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[</span><a href="http://www.voltairenet.org/Dagestan-Syria-comes-to-Russia#nh28" title="Footnotes 28"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">28</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">] M.K. Bhadrakumar, "</span><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NI05Ad01.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Calling the China-Russia split isn’t heresy</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">," <i>Asia Times</i>, September 5, 2012.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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