They have reached Moscow


They have reached Moscow – that’s the main result of the action conducted by the young Commander. He wrote himself down in History, just as we were being obtrusively offered from TV screens. Napoleon also reached Russian capital once, where he was kicked out of soon; but the word «Moscow» was still carved in golden letters on the Emperor’s tomb among his famous victories – Austerlitz, Arcole, Marengo. Shaheeds do not have tombs with golden letters, but in the minds of their relatives, dead and alive, the names of Shaheeds will remain scribbled with Arabic characters. Anyway, the saved world shall never forget. The whole question is: saved from what? Not from the war, since the war is still continuing.

There is nothing that a dead enemy can reply with; doing outrageous things to a corpse of an enemy is the worst sin. For a Shaheed it makes absolutely no difference. Translated from Arabic, Shaheed means «witness». Witness before the Lord. On the Day of Judgment he will appear before God in his clothes and with his wounds that will glow brighter than any diamonds. And no pig skins will make their holy bodies unclean when every human being will be resurrected and questioned. By the degree of their ranks the Shaheeds are second only to Prophets.

The main weapon of the so-called information society is outright filthy lies, and here, they put a bottle of liquor into the hand of a dead Shaheed. It is Russians who drink from fear in such situations, and they judge about others while looking at their own selves. Why would they need vodka or drugs when there is no fear? Faith is a stimulator a lot more efficient than any amphetamines – a believer is not afraid of death, and you don’t have to be crapfaced to overcome fear.

But the society of complete atheists will not understand it. Take a look, not a single hostage asked to see a priest, which in this kind of situation would have been more proper than seeing a psychologist. They were probably praying, but not for forgiveness of their sins after death. They were asking the Most High to make their sinful lives on the sinful Earth longer. And the Shaheeds were saying a prayer and they bowed down to Allah while their companions were on guard – they were not asking to give them life, but they were asking for peaceful tomorrow for their people.

The generation of war. That’s what Chechen leaders were warning about, offering peaceful negotiations to the Russian government before it’s too late, because later boys who grew up during the war will come, who are dreaming only to take vengeance on Russians for killing their parents, brothers and sisters. Maybe it’s even too late. What’s more, it turned out that Movsar Barayev had interesting knowledge in modern Russian political science: turned out he knows Hakamada and Yavlinsky not as the most venal politicians («better a small fish than an empty dish») At least they were there, - our shy excuse for democrats!

Where was the wonderful party «Yedinaya Rossia» (United Russia) that opened up its branch in
Chechnya and accepted two thousand of commandos from Khankala? No, they would have come if they were called – just nobody needs them, because everybody, even Chechen suicide bombers, knows that those people are only puppets and there is nothing that they can do. During this kind of moments you can see especially clearly who is who.

An act of cruelty committed by desperate people in
Moscow theater. Did it harm or did it help the Chechen cause to acquire independence? Putin will not fail to bargain with the world community for all sorts of political and economic bonuses while speculating on the Chechen blood. The Representation of Ichkeria has already been closed in Baku (Azerbaijan) and Latvian Parliament is already discussing the issue of renaming Dzhokhar Dudayev Street into Cosmonaut Street. Good thing not into Russian Commandos Street – that will be possible soon too. Will Putin put the appeal of Deputy Mitrofanov into practice, - to turn Chechnya into a smoky hole and turn Caucasus into a parking lot because that act was not the last one?

Even though they did it this way, they still made them demand to stop the war in Chechnya, - what are you supposed to do if nothing else can be done otherwise and only with the animal fear for the lives of the relatives you can make quite reasonable [by the way] demands? For one day everybody in
Russia were for the negotiations with Maskhadov – in the whole State Duma it was impossible to find a single Deputy who would not want to stop the war. Except for Mitrofanov – but that’s a clinical case.

The government has shown that human life is not a number one priority, and that games with the hostages are not just cruel on the verge of a foul – no one is interested in them because they will be «icing» anyway with the population’s consent. The times of Chernomyrdin, who was not afraid to sacrifice the image for saving people’s lives and who spoke with Basayev personally, have been irretrievably long gone. «The government of
Russian Federation guarantees to stop immediate cessation of all military operations in Chechnya, appoints the authorized delegation to conduct peace negotiations, and provides transportation for S. Basayev and his group to the appointed place». –governmental decree dated June 18, 1995, you read it just like you are reading a fairy tale before going to sleep. Sounds more of some Mother Theresa instead of Mr. Chernonyrdin. We will yet recall him and put in a good word for him.

But Movsar Barayev never got a chance to talk to journalists; therefore from now on it makes no sense to take hostages. He could not just leave while being right downtown
Moscow, except for becoming a Shaheed. Jihad convinces that this is true, as the Hadith says. New warriors will take place of those who left for Paradise. Chechen children are growing up. In order to make the power of the empire to really afraid of itself, you must conduct combat operations and leave alive. And win. It’s hard but only this kind of war leads to independence of Ichkeria – not dreadful scenes with scared women and children – it only causes hatred.

It is logical and understandable – to transfer the war from colonial outskirts into the center of the empire, but the war must be conducted using other means. Allah judges intentions, and only He is free to accept a Shaheed. Barayev’s fighters did not blow up the building, but they could have done so. Russian Spetznaz (Special Forces) poisoned the hostages with gas. The sin of killing innocent hostages before the Most High is now lying on Russian soldiers and on Russian president. Stupid Patrushev guaranteed Mujahideen life and the «fairest» court in the world if they surrender.

The Shaheeds preferred another Court – the Court of Almighty Allah. The Almighty showed that He needed these people in
Paradise, while showing that the hostages died not from their hands, but from the hands of Putin’s Spetznaz. Isn’t that a sign from the Most High?

Anastasia Drozdova (Chechen.ru)

Chechen.ru website was closed down by special directive of the FSB on
October 28, 2002 after this article was published.

Department of Cooperation and Mass Media,
Kavkaz-Center