Thread by @DonbasDIY

Much is always said about CIA, but in reality, the KGB, GRU, FSB, the war in Chechnya & Russias partnership with Assad in Syria, had a much more pivotal role in the rise of ISIS.
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Its no secret Russia has been behind the rise of global terror since the beginning of the Era Of Dynamite in 1850, breaking records for assassinations & bloodshed, inventing modern tactics for State, political, far-right, left-wing & anarcho terrorism
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In the 60s, the KGB helped create Middle East terror networks in Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen & others. Far Left terrorists like Red Army Faction, Carlos The Jackal in Europe, insurgency & guerilla groups in S. America & Africa 3/ middleeasttransparent.com/the-kgbs-middl…

By 1978 KGB unleashed over 4k agents, infiltrating Islamic ethnic groups, arming & training them in disinformation & terrorist operations, exporting a rabid, demented hatred for Zionism, trying to turn the whole Islamic world against Israel & the US.
4/ nationalreview.com/2006/08/russia…

It was the KGB's training of Sadam Hussein’s Baathist Secret Police & Iraq's intelligence network that laid the foundation for the rise of the Islamic State & its tactics.
5/ spiegel.de/international/…

Also interesting is that Ayman al-Zawahiri (the deputy leader of al-Qaeda at the time) was a long-time FSB asset. In 1996 he would travel to Dagestan where he arrived at the invitation of Russian secret services.
6/ thehill.com/opinion/intern…

He allegedly spent half a year in FSB training facilities, Moscow would claim that they arrested Zawahiri in 96. But somehow released him in May 1997, along with his laptop & loads of private, mostly Arabic-language documents nearly all unread
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He was even allowed to travel to Chechnya, where he met various holy warriors, including Ibn al-Khattab (a.k.a. Samir Saleh Abdullah as-Suwailem), over the next ten days. Zawahiri then decamped to join Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan
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Infamous Chechen terrorists Shamil Basayev, Ruslan Gelayev, Salman Raduyev and many other commanders began their careers not only fighting on the Russian side during the Georgian-Abkhaz war, but were actually active agents of GRU
9/ kyleworton.medium.com/how-russia-man…

Basayev, with his brother Shirvani, also a trained GRU agent, led an incursion into the Georgian province of Abkhazia in 1992.
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Basayev’s Chechen division helped the Abkhazians expel the Georgian military, and a Russian “peacekeeping” (occupation) force moved in and remained in Abkhazia.
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In August 1999, Basayev led an attack into Dagestan, using weapons from GRU stockpiles in Moscow, not jihadist stores in Chechnya, reigniting the conflict with Moscow. 6 weeks later, Basayev would be blamed for the false flag apartment bombings in Moscow
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Much has been said that it was the false flag apartment bombings in 1999 that contributed to Putin's tough guy persona & popular rise to power. But in fact it was just part of a larger GRU provocation that began with Basayev’s incursion into Dagestan.
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The rise of ISIS can be traced back to the rise of Wahhabi/Salafi ideology in Saudi Arabia. Taking root in USSR in Dagestan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrghizia, Chechnya not to mention Afghanistan and Pakistan.
14/ huffpost.com/entry/isis-wah…

It was the KGB, including Putin & his comrade Anatolij Sobczak who pressured the Tajiki government to register the first Islamic Party during the first free elections in 1991, even though the party was labeled extremist & promoted “Wahhabism” (term for Salafi)
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Islamic Party was basically a wing of USSR Islamic Revival Party, which was a Wahhabi-run opposition group. At the time KGB did not care about extremism, and not familiar with Wahhabism/Salafism, just as long as they were loyal to the KGB
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KGB tentacles were all over the rise in popularity of Salafism in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Dagestan & of course Chechnya. KGB carefully infiltrated existing parties and fabricated other “scarecrow” parties to make the Communist Party look like the most reasonable alternative
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The KGB also used “Wahhabism” and religious extremism inside the Islamic Revival to curb any ideas of liberation inside Tajikistan in the 80s, and to stomp out any moderate movements or move towards Western Democracy.
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GRU agent Basayev, took to Salafi-Wahhabism during his time Tajikistan, when he commanded his own GRU Spetsnaz unit during the political war that was already beginning.
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In February 1990, a riot in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, was organized by the opposition Islamic Rebirth, which killed twenty-two people and injured five-hundred more.
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Years later ex Tajik KGB & ex Tajik SSR officials revealed that it was in fact a coordinated provocation of the KGB, who instigated the mayhem in Tajikistan, to prevent a repeat of the (nearly) peaceful secession of the Baltics and Ukraine
21/ old.asiaplustj.info/en/news/tajiki…

This is how Moscow turned Islamic radicalism into an effective vaccine against various nations’ movements for national liberation. Creating & corrupting jihadi movements that would delegitimize moderate governments, at the expense of the people
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Interesting fact: Islamofascist Geydar Dzhemal, who helped spread Salafi Jihadism/Wahhabism all over USSR & the chairman of the Russian Islam Committee, was a long time friend of Alexander Dugin from Yuzhinsky Circle & Black Order of SS. Dugins links to GRU is no coincidence
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Even during Putins rise to power, Dzhemal openly supported Chechen terrorists, leading to demands that the Islamic Committee be declared an extremist
organization & Dzhemal be prosecuted, but he remained well protected by KGB Kremlin siloviki
24/ academia.edu/37260926/From_…

One of the main Salafi ideologists in Chechnya was Adam Deniyev, a long time KGB & FSB agent, who in 2000 was appointed the deputy of Akhmad Kadyrov, and began taking a more pro-Russian position
25/ theguardian.com/world/2000/mar…

Supyan Abdullayev another ideologist of Salafi (Wahhabism) and one of the main initiators of creating a USSR Islamic Revival Party, also turned out to be a long time KGB agent, recruited in the early 80s
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Abdulayev, until his death in 2011, was the main comrade and ideologist to Dokka Umarov, leader of the Caucasian Emirate, who was instrumental in the rise of Wahhabism & Chechnen's role in the creation of ISIS in Syria.
27/ rferl.org/a/1079059.html

Created in 2007 The Caucasus Emirate organised some of the deadliest attacks in the entire Russian Federation and gained popularity among the local population.
28/ meforum.org/1931/the-rise-…

Oct 2007, Movladi Udugov, leader of the Chechen radical wing in the 90s, declared the Caucasus Emirate- al-Qaeda’s local branch, something that outraged & opposed by majority of Chechen nationalists, stating only Russia benefits by painting Chechens as International terrorists.

Russian military forces and authorities perceived Udugov & Caucasus Emirate (CE) as the main threat for national and regional security. Their concern arose especially due to the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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By 2014, to bring the situation in the Caucasus in accordance with the desired media image, the Kremlin began to progressively reduce CE’s organizational network in order to promote the so-called fight against ISIS, while killing off ISIS’s competitors
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The Kremlin would use the threat of terrorism to justify the new 2014 draconian arrest & surveillance laws. Giving FSB full authority to arrest anyone they felt was a terrorist or Neo-Nazi extremist without oversight or evidence. Making FSB in a sense God hrw.org/report/2017/07…

The security services began arresting & eliminating some of the most influential leaders of the Caucasus Emirate (CE). Umarov would vanish & terrorist activity conveniently stopped just in time for Sochi, while at the same time, more Chechens began appearing in Syria
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In 2014 the leaders of Caucasus Emirate would split off, pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, opening the door to the Islamic State which created Vilayat Kavkaz (Caucasus Province) as a part of the “new Caliphate”. The new ISIS
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The Kremlin, worried about losing Assad as their foothold in Middle East, pressured Umarov to begin recruiting criminals & Jihadis to fight in Syria, allowing Russia to paint Assad's opposition as terrorists, creating a narrative that the US supports ISIS
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Dokka Umarovs older brother & main ideologist & author of the emirate concept, with links to the KGB, is Isa Umarov , who was already operating in Syria, would make high profile requests for all jihadi to join the fight against Assad.
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Dokka Umarov would be suspiciously killed, allegedly by someone in his inner circle sometime in 2013 or early 2014. unsubstantiated reports of his death circulated for a while, as did accusations he cooperated with FSB
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Omar al-Shishani (real name Tarkhan Batirashvili), who rose to power at Islamic State, admitted he only appeared in Syria at the request of Umarov.
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And where did al-Shishani get his start? As a member of Ruslan Gelayevs GRU supervised terrorist squad.
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ISIS has normally closed its inner circles to outsiders, The only people who do appear to have made the cut are the Chechens. Some like Muslem a-Shishani (Murad Margoshvili) have odd backstories linked to Russian Intelligence
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From the very outset, the Assad regime and its Iranian and Russian supporters have waged a very large and elaborate disinformation campaign to push its own narrative of the conflict. To paint any and all opposition as jihadi extremists
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Bashar al-Assad accelerated the sectarian tendencies by playing the “Chechen card”. Based on a KGB-perfected tactic: provocation (provokatsiya), but has been modus operandi in Russian strategy for over a century, since the days of Okhrana.
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Provokatsiya aims to have your enemies do your work for you. pushing radical groups to commit criminal acts that allows the authorities to imprison them & discredit their cause in the eyes of the public. Used to justify invasions, crackdowns & repressions
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In 1998, after Chechnya had settled into a state of relative independence after defeating Yeltsin’s invasion, the Russian secret police funded an Islamist militant named Arbi Barayev who had adopted the horrific tactics we now associate with ISIS
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Barayev used tactics like beheading “un-Islamic” civilians, kidnapping journalists and aid workers, etc. Barayev was able to drive through Russian FSB checkpoints and generally had carte blanche. Being provided documents that he was an operative of the FSB military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Arbi_Bara…

al-Assad must have decided that what worked in Chechnya would also work in Syria. By giving surreptitious aid to the most bloodthirsty Islamists, he was able to represent himself as defending civilized values against the barbarian,
47/ kyleorton.co.uk/2014/09/03/pro…

In order to justify its role in Syria, Russia needs to keep the war ongoing. What better way, than to keep an infinite flow of jihadists into Syria. The FSB established a ‘green corridor’, allowing jihadis to migrate first to Turkey, and then to Syria
48/ thedailybeast.com/russias-double…

Rather than killing or jailing Salafi-jihadists, Russia is pushing them to emigrate, with both carrot and stick, offering to help zealots to serve their holy cause just not in Russia.
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In Dagestan’s Khasavyurt district, where, since 2011, nearly one-percent of the 2,500 residents have gone to Syria for jihad. The FSB established a ‘green corridor’ to allow [the Caucasian zealots] to migrate first to Turkey, and then to Syria.
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Moscow also encourages and facilitates Chechen radicals to go do holy war in Syria and Iraq, solving a Russian security problem — terrorism in the Caucasus has decreased fifty-percent since the Syrian crisis began.
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Russia & Syria attacked the mainstream moderate armed opposition, systematically targeting the parts of the opposition supported by the West, which actually opened space for IS to expand
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So Far 230k have been killed & 140k have been arrested or disappeared by the Syrian regime. But because Putin & Assad have falsely painted their opposition as “jihadis” or “terrorists” in a Psyop war, nobody cares
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https://x.com/snhr/status/1769711282100322761?s=20

GRU doesnt limit its support with just manpower. Its been a well know fact that ISIS Cyber Caliphate, was in fact a false flag run GRU, used for hacking, aggressive use of social media & propaganda.

But all we see is memes about CIA & Ukraine ...

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