Central Asia and international terrorism
TEHRAN (Basirat)- The route of the terrorists stretches from the Caucasia and Azerbaijan’s borders to Turkey. This shows that the security and intelligence forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey play an active role in arming the terrorists as well as transferring them from Eurasia to Syria.
The route of the terrorists stretches from the Caucasia and Azerbaijan’s borders to Turkey. This shows that the security and intelligence forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey play an active role in arming the terrorists as well as transferring them from Eurasia to Syria,(Part 1).By Dr. Shoaib Bahman
The Syrian crisis has created a kind of international terrorism in which individuals from the Central Asia are involved. These terrorists have Salafi-Wahhabi inclinations and are among the backers of al-Qaeda, al-Nusra Front and Daesh Takfiri groups. They have turned into a potential threat for countries in the Central Asia as these international and organized terrorists may one day find their way to other regions and states after Syria.
Recruitment of terrorists in Central Asia
Activities of extremist networks which send their members and devotees to Syria have a determining role in the region. Many of the foreign rebels operating in Syria had links to these groups in their own countries. A portion of them are being encouraged by their relatives and friends in Syria to join the ranks of the Takfiri militants, especially older brothers motivate the younger ones to join the terrorists.
The terrorists’ method for recruiting forces is almost the same in most of the countries in the Central Asia. They usually do this through local sources and Islamist groups and organizations that have close ties with al-Qaeda, Salafists and Wahhabists. However, this is not done openly.
A number of terrorist groups are tasked with recruiting individuals to send them to fight in Syria. In fact, all terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda and the al-Tahrir Party are busy with the recruitment. The Takfiri groups of al-Nusra Front and the so-called Islamic Jihad Union are also employing nationals from the Central Asia. In some countries, the process of the employment is done through indigenous people. For instance, one third of all Kyrgyz people who have travelled to Saudi Arabia in pursuance of religious education have turned into extremist Salafi-Wahhabi preachers in Kyrgyzstan. That is why today the Kyrgyz are employing their people to prevent this.
One way or another, these foreign militants are recruited in their own homeland and then are transferred to Syria by a network led by Abu Ahmed al-Iraqi, who is a well-known terrorist. It is a difficult task for the security forces of the Central Asian countries to monitor the residents who leave their countries to join the terrorists in Syria as the nationals are usually dispatched to Syria through a third party.
Here, we should take heed of this issue that the Takfiri terrorist groups cannot easily cross into another country without information and coordination of this country 's intelligence forces. The route of the terrorists stretches from the Caucasia and Azerbaijan’s borders to Turkey. This shows that the security and intelligence forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey play an active role in arming the terrorists as well as transferring them from Eurasia to Syria. This is while such cooperation for moving the terrorists will fire back and the Takfiri groups will one day return to haunt them.
