>>>They’re separatists who want the Russian government out of Chechnya, not creators of a new Islamic world order.<<<
Liberal lies. Chechens were talking about Caliphate since the very beginning. They actually won their independence in First Chechen War and used it not to create any kind of stable government but to expand further into South Russia and Dagestan. In 1999 Dagestanis rebelled against Chechens and their Arab masters, federal government supported locals and it is how the Second War started.
IMHO, Chechen success in the first war was a precedent. It shown jihadis they can bite pieces from non-muslim nations and establish their rule.
I don’t think Kosovo was possible before 1996, muzzies in France and Britain had no guts to declare sharia zones in inner cities or said any crap on ‘islam will rule’ too.
All this on the namesakes of not only their son Tamerlane, but also Dzhokhar was covered (where else but) on FreeRepublic - 10 days ago.
Note especially the highlighted sentence in the final paragraph of the following, regarding how, under the leadership of the living terrorist son's namesake, the 1st Chechen-Russian War was waged as a holy Islamic war.
On namesake Tamerlane (the Sword of Islam):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3009967/posts?page=10#10On namesake Dzhokhar (Dudaev):http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3009962/posts?page=63#63
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3009967/posts?page=24#24"Before the fall of Grozny, {Dzhokhar} Dudaev abandoned the {Chechen} presidential palace, moved south with his forces and continued leading the war throughout 1995, reportedly from a missile silo close to the historic Chechen capital of Vedeno. He continued to insist that his forces would prevail after the conventional warfare had finished, and the Chechen guerrilla fighters continued to operate across the entire country picking off Russian units and demoralising their soldiers. A jihad was declared on Russia by the Dudaev-appointed Mufti of Ichkeria, Akhmad Kadyrov, and foreign volunteers began pouring into the republic, mostly from neighbouring North Caucasian Muslim republics such as Dagestan." (wikipedia: Tamerlane)