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COMMENT: Two different types of fascist cadres are operating in tandem in Ukraine–in addition to the OUN/B heirs such as the Pravy Sektor formations, Chechen fighters (almost certainly allied with some element of Muslim Brotherhood) are now fighting alongside them and under the Pravy Sektor administrative command.
The Chechen formations are described as “brothers” of the Islamic State.
The Boston Marathon bombing appears to have been blowback from a covert operation backing jihadists in the Caucasus.
It is impossible under the circumstances to cover our research into the Ukraine crisis. Previous programs on the subject are: FTR #‘s 777, 778, 779, 780, 781, 782, 783, 784, 794, 800, 803, 804, 808, 811, 817, 818, 824, 826, 829, 832, 833, 837, 849, 850, 853. Listeners/readers are encouraged to examine these programs and/or their descriptions in detail, in order to flesh out their understanding.
“Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists” by Robert Parry; Consortium News; 7/7/2015.
In a curiously upbeat account, The New York Times reports that Islamic militants have joined with Ukraine’s far-right and neo-Nazi battalions to fight ethnic Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. It appears that no combination of violent extremists is too wretched to celebrate as long as they’re killing Russ-kies.
The article by Andrew E. Kramer reports that there are now three Islamic battalions “deployed to the hottest zones,” such as around the port city of Mariupol. One of the battalions is headed by a former Chechen warlord who goes by the name “Muslim,” Kramer wrote, adding:
“The Chechen commands the Sheikh Mansur group, named for an 18th-century Chechen resistance figure. It is subordinate to the nationalist Right Sector, a Ukrainian militia. … Right Sector … formed during last year’s street protests in Kiev from a half-dozen fringe Ukrainian nationalist groups like White Hammer and the Trident of Stepan Bandera.
“Another, the Azov group, is openly neo-Nazi, using the ‘Wolf’s Hook’ symbol associated with the [Nazi] SS. Without addressing the issue of the Nazi symbol, the Chechen said he got along well with the nationalists because, like him, they loved their homeland and hated the Russians.”
As casually as Kramer acknowledges the key front-line role of neo-Nazis and white supremacists fighting for the U.S.-backed Kiev regime, his article does mark an aberration for the Times and the rest of the mainstream U.S. news media, which usually dismiss any mention of this Nazi taint as “Russian propaganda.” . . .
. . . . Now, the Kiev regime has added to those “forces of civilization” — resisting the Russ-kie barbarians — Islamic militants with ties to terrorism. Last September, Marcin Mamon, a reporter for the Intercept, reached a vanguard group of these Islamic fighters in Ukraine through the help of his “contact in Turkey with the Islamic State [who] had told me his ‘brothers’ were in Ukraine, and I could trust them.”
The new Times article avoids delving into the terrorist connections of these Islamist fighters. . . .
Looking Back from 1984
This appears to be the execution of a strategy of NSDAP to have Islamist cooperate with the Nazi’s. The book “Islam and Nazi Germany’s War” by David Motadel on page 313 states “In the last months of the war, in the Berlin Bunker, Hitler lamented that the Third Reich’s efforts to mobilize the Muslim world had not been strong enough. “All Islam vibrated at the news of our victories” and Muslims had been “ready to rise in revolt,” he told Bormann. Just think what we could have done to help them, even to incite them, as would have been both our duty and interest!”
The book cites the following source: “The Testament of Adolph Hitler: The Hitler-Bormann Documents, February — April 1945, ed. Francois Geout Transl. R. H. Stevens, intro. H. R. Trevor- Roper London, 1961”(17 February 1945) Pages 69–75.
Just to add to the comment above — Mr Emory has painstakingly documented the form and structure of the connection between certain strands of Islam and fascism for decades as even a cursory trip through the archives will show.
Most recently, the absolute essential multi-part series with author Peter Levenda goes into some detail on the links between the Third Reich and its attempts to co-opt the more extremist strands of Islamic ideology.
Previously, the very mention of the “N” word by the NATO media proxies was considered taboo and yet in recent weeks, there has been an orchestrated disclosure, that yes, there are nazi and fascist forces in Ukraine — in the form of a “few bad apples” that the “democratically minded” Kiev regime is currently tackling. A cynic would suggest this is simply a form of sheep-dipping and the Right Sector have probably been told to “cool it” with the overt Nazi/Fascist insignia (of course the Stepan Bandera references can stay, given the fact very few in the west know the name).
The embedding of Chechen reactionaries in the conflict has the fingerprints of western state and military intelligence all over it.
The Daily Beast has a new piece on the Chechen Jihadists fighting in Ukraine after fighting for ISIS and how, with talk of making Right Sector part of the SBU, there’s growing speculation that a Chechen ‘volunteer battalion’ is just a matter of time:
Yes, given the incredible embrace of groups like Right Sector, including the possibility that they might be made into a special unit of the SBU, why not create a Chechen ISIS battalion?
“Today they unite with Ukrainian nationalists against Russians, tomorrow they will be fighting against liberals.” Yep. Probably still united with at least some Ukrainian nationalists at that point too.