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And then there's Chechnya...

<---The vic - Sulim Yamadayev.

This floated past my radar screen earlier today and I didn't want the day to get away from me without making note of it. 

Once again, I pose the question...what is it with Islam and thugs?  I am telling you this Ramzan Kadyrov character is bad, bad, bad news.  Connect the thugs...

Dubai Police make implicate State Duma Deputy from Chechnya in murder attempt.

Dubai's chief of police, Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan bin Tamim, told a press conference on April 5 that two men, one from Iran and the other a Tajik, have been arrested on suspicion of the March 28 attempt to assassinate Sulim Yamadayev, the disgraced former commander of the Vostok battalion subordinate to the Russian Defense Ministry's 42nd Motorized Rifle Division.

Tamim said four more men, one from Kazakhstan and three citizens of the Russian Federation, are wanted for questioning in connection with the crime, and that police also have evidence indicating that a Chechen, Adam Delimkhanov, was behind it.

Delimkhanov, 39, who represents Chechnya in the Russian State Duma, is a maternal cousin of Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov and previously served as a first deputy prime minister with responsibility for police and security. A member of Delimkhanov's bodyguard is said to have given the suspected assassin the gun used to fire on Yamadayev.

Delimkhanov was similarly implicated in the execution-style killing in broad daylight in Moscow in November 2006 of another former Kadyrov ally, Movladi Baysarov, who until shortly before his death headed the Gorets (Mountaineer) battalion that was subordinate to the Federal Security Service (FSB).

Delimkhanov issued a statement on April 5 dismissing the Dubai police accusation as a "provocation" and affirming his readiness to cooperate with them in investigating the attack on Yamadayev. As a Russian parliament member, he cannot be extradited to Dubai for questioning.

So why would this guy be attacked?  Hang on.  Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said Monday he thinks his father's killer has been killed.

Kadyrov said he believes former military commander Sulim Yamadayev, who was assassinated March 28 in the United Arab Emirates, was responsible for the death of his father, Akhmad Kadyrov, a former Chechen leader himself, RIA Novosti reported.

"I have 70 percent proof that he was involved in the killing of my father, particularly as he tried twice to kill me, and wanted to poison a lake at my (Gudermes) residence on the day of my inauguration -- I have witnesses," Kadyrov told reporters.

Kadyrov previously had accused Yamadayev of being involved in other killings and kidnappings.

Akhmad Kadyrov died in an explosion May 9, 2004, in a stadium during a World War II memorial parade. Fifteen other people died in the attack.

Yamadayev, 35, who commanded an elite battalion in Chechnya until his dismissal last August, was shot by a gunman in an underground parking lot of the Dubai apartment building where he lived.

Yamadayev's brother, Ruslan, an ex-member of the Russian parliament's lower house, was gunned down in Moscow last September.

Russia mulls ending Chechen terror operation.

Words fail me.

From Easy Bourse.

Russia is considering ending the decade-long effective state of war in Chechnya, an official said Thursday, in a move that could see the withdrawal of thousands of troops from the once restive republic.

The decree on the start of a "counter-terrorist operation" was passed in Chechnya under late president Boris Yeltsin in 1999 just months before he resigned and installed Vladimir Putin at the helm.
"Such an issue is being worked out but it's too early to talk about the time frame," a Kremlin official told AFP.

The official's remarks came in response to a surprise announcement by Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's Moscow-backed strongman leader, who said Wednesday that authorities would pass a decree lifting all restrictions on Chechnya.  "I think at the end of March, on the 30-31, an official document about its completion will be signed," Kadyrov said.

"We have completely rooted out terrorism, although there is a certain circle of bandits that run around neighboring regions and make their appearance here. But they do not represent any threat for us," Kadyrov told reporters in comments released by his office.

He estimated the number of insurgents active in Chechnya at between 50 and 100, a far cry from the two full-scale wars that Russia fought with separatist forces.

Kadyrov met last week with Putin, who is now Russian prime minister but still believed to be the most powerful man in the country.

Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, confirmed Thursday that Putin and Kadyrov discussed security issues, among other topics, but said the final decision rested with the country's defense and law enforcement officials who report to President Dmitry Medvedev.

Ladies Night in Islam

In honor of International Women's Day let's see what Ladie's Night is like in Islam.  Just for fun.

Girls study computer technology in Swat.  ->

Pakistan:  "Terrified, locked up at home and courting death if they go out alone, women oppressed by extremists in Swat have nothing to celebrate on International Women's Day. Nearly 100 years after the annual day was created to mark the struggle for equal rights for half the world’s population, most women in Swat look blank and go silent when asked about gender rights and discrimination.

They’re too frightened to speak in public. They can only leave the confines of their homes accompanied by a male relative, their bodies hidden in veils.

‘How can I tell you my name, are you crazy? I was told not to give my name to anyone because the Taliban could hurt me,’ one girl in the ninth grade told AFP by telephone from the former ski resort.The girl’s dreams of becoming a doctor are over. She worries the Taliban will stop her finishing school, regardless of her parents’ support."

India J&K -  "All-female paramilitary police units are to be deployed in Kashmir during the Indian general elections next month to prevent female Islamist vigilantes from intimidating women voters who refuse to wear the veil.

The move aims to counter the Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM), (editor's note:  'Millat' means Islamic Nation and is equivalent to Third Reich) an all-woman Muslim group that is opposed to Indian rule – and to women wearing Western-style clothes.."  In this pic DeM members protest French hijab laws - in India.

The Khyber region of Pakistan:  Omar Farooq, the commander of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan in Khyber Agency, warned the National Database and Registration Authority that its offices would be attacked if it issued identity cards to women. Farooq told reporters on phone from an unknown location that making identity cards for women went against Islamic rules. The Taliban will not allow women to obtain these cards, he said. He also warned women that they would have to face the consequences if they went to NADRA offices to get themselves registered for the identity cards.

Chechnya:  President pays cash for all babies born on March 8. MALE BABIES, that is. (editor's note: Ironic, isn't it that March 8th is also International Women's Day?)Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov on Tuesday promised a cash payout of 50,000 rubles ($1,400) to the families of all boys born in Chechnya on March 8, the birthday of the Muslim prophet Mohammed. "I will ask parents to name these boys after Mohammed," Kadyrov said, Itar-Tass reported...Kadyrov advocates polygamy for Chechens, although it is forbidden under Russian law, and last month he issued a decree limiting alcohol sales in Chechnya to only two hours every day."

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Chechen President: 'Women had 'loose morals and deserved to be shot...'

The bullnecked president (r) role plays Mohammed and Aisha at a recent local folk festival. 

"You just wait young lady!  One of these days you'll get what's coming to you!  And don't think you won't!"

And the Islamic beatdown on women goes on.  Read this story and then think back to Phyllis Chesler's major differences between domestic violence.  View the Chechen president's automobile collection beneath the fold and ask yourself, "If Islam is such a religion of peace then why does it act like nothing but a mobbed up death cult?"

From the IHT.

The bullnecked president of Chechnya emerged from afternoon prayers at the mosque and with chilling composure explained why seven young women who had been shot in the head deserved to die. Ramzan Kadyrov said the women, whose bodies were found dumped by the roadside, had "loose morals" and were rightfully shot by male relatives in honor killings.

"If a woman runs around and if a man runs around with her, both of them are killed," Kadyrov told journalists in the capital of this Russian republic.

The 32-year-old former militia leader is carrying out a campaign to impose Islamic values and strengthen the traditional customs of predominantly Muslim Chechnya, in an effort to blunt the appeal of hardline Islamic separatists and shore up his power. In doing so, critics say, he is setting up a dictatorship where Russian laws do not apply.

Some in Russia say Kadyrov's attempt to create an Islamic society violates the Russian constitution, which guarantees equal rights for women and a separation of church and state. But the Kremlin has given him its staunch backing, seeing him as the key to keeping the separatists in check, and that has allowed him to impose his will.

The Chechen Republic - where Honor Killing is a 'family tradition', the corpses of dead women give men their honor and no records are kept.

Kadyrov describes women as the property of their husbands and says their main role is to bear children. He encourages men to take more than one wife, even though polygamy is illegal in Russia. Women and girls are now required to wear headscarves in all schools, universities and government offices.

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Many people suspect Kadyrov is branding the seven late November slayings honor killings to advance his political agenda. He said the women were planning to go abroad to work as prostitutes, but their relatives found out about it and killed them.

Few Chechens believe that.

"If women are killed according to tradition then it is done very secretly to prevent too many people from finding out that someone in the family behaved incorrectly," said Natalya Estemirova, a prominent human rights activist in Grozny.

Estemirova said two of the women were married, with two children each. Their husbands held large funerals and buried them in the family plot, which would not have happened if the women had disgraced their families, she said.

Kadyrov's version also has been contradicted by federal prosecutors in Moscow, who have concluded relatives were not involved. No arrests have been made and the investigation is continuing. Kadyrov's office refused to comment on the investigators' conclusion.

The Moscow newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that some of the women worked in brothels frequented by Kadyrov's men. Many Chechens say they suspect the women were killed in a police operation. The truth of the killings may never be known, given how much Kadyrov is feared.

Rights activists fear that Kadyrov's approval of honor killings may encourage men to carry them out. Honor killings are considered part of Chechen tradition. No records are kept, but human rights activists estimate dozens of women are killed every year.

Call me crazy, but I saw these pics and had a Uday Hussein flashback...