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Chechen Mujahideen Deny Involvement in Georgia Conflict
Last Updated (Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00) Written by Evan Kohlmann Saturday, 16 August 2008 19:00
The NEFA Foundation has obtained a communiqué issued by Shamsuddin Batukaev, the Wakil (Head) of the Caucasus Emirate, in which he commented on "widely replicated reports that ‘Chechen units and volunteers from Chechnya’ are participating on Russian side in war against Georgia.” He acknowledged that a small number of "gangs of apostate-mercenaries of ethnic Chechens or representatives of other nationalities of the Caucasus...are members of Russian occupation forces" but "have nothing to do with the Armed Forces of the Caucasus Emirate" and "are the enemies of the Caucasus Emirate like [the] Russian invaders."
