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Islamic State in Ukraine: A Christmas present from the West
Galloway, George
http://www.rt.com/op-ed/447536-isis-chechen-islamists-ukraine/Date Written: 2018-12-27 Publisher: RT Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX23189 The report in British newspaper the Times, that Chechen Islamists, many reeling from defeat in Syria and Iraq amongst the alphabet soup of fanaticism, had indeed arrived at the war front in eastern Ukraine, woke me up from any Christmas torpor. Abstract: - Excerpts: The policy of "my enemy’s enemy is my friend" is a deeply immoral one, and one which has repeatedly failed yet is repeatedly repeated. In the mid-1990s I gave a lecture to the International Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party about knowledge I had acquired through working with the Saudi opposition in London that someone called Osama Bin Laden had been oriented by the United States towards the Xinjiang region in China to agitate amongst the Uighur Muslim minority there, to exacerbate their alienation from the state, to take advantage of the weaknesses of Chinese State policy towards their Muslim citizens. And to sow terror. So novel was the name Osama Bin Laden then that the International Department cadres crowded round me at the end asking me to spell his name for them. So important was my news that a week later I had to do it again for the deputy foreign minister of China. Subject Headings |