Wolves of Islam

by Paul Murphy

Overview

Paul Murphy tells the story of the principal cast of characters in the 'Wolves of Islam'. These Chechen terrorists carry out horrific acts of terror to drive Russia out of the North Caucasus. They have led Chechnya down the road to chaos as they continue to prosecute their Islamic holy war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574888317
Publisher:	Potomac Books
Publication date:	12/31/2005
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

PAUL MURPHY, Ph.D., is a former U.S. government senior counterterrorism official who lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Russia, the North Caucasus, and Central Asia between 1994 and 2001. He has studied in the former Soviet Union, and worked in civil society development, higher education, and business in Russia. As a U.S. congressional special adviser on Russia in 2002, he dealt with issues related to counterterrorism cooperation between the United States and Russia. This book is his fifth.

Table of Contents

Prologue

Part I Shamil Basayev: Russia’s Osama bin Laden—the Beginning

Two Grenades for Yeltsin In the Footsteps of Imam Shamil Establishing Terrorist Credentials Drinking Georgian Blood Jihad Training with International Terrorists Doing Dudayev’s Dirtywork and the First Chechen War The First Suicide Mission to Moscow Enter Arab Fighters and a Dirty Bomb The “Grozny Offensive”
A Terrorist Turns Reluctant Politician

Part II The Black Arab and the Wahhabi Factor

Embodying the Islamic Warrior Persona Khattab’s Real Combat Movies Slaying Armed Russian Infidels—A Religious Calling Suspect in the Red Cross Murders Khattab’s Terrorist Schools The Closed City and Wahhabi Subversion The Little Wahhabi Republic

Part III Two Presidents and Two Armies

Raduyev the “Lone Wolf” Terrorist Wolves Have Come to You!
Rising from the Dead The Thorn in Maskhadov’s Side Shootout at Teatralnaya Square The Jamaat Military Alliance and the Berezovsky Hostage Deals What Raduyev’s Islamic Manifesto Had to Say

Part IV The Godfather of Kidnapping and the Ideologist of Apocalypse

People for Sale Mutiny in Gudermes The Akhmadov Brothers Beheadings and Betrayal The Many Faces of Movladi Udugov Udugov’s Respectable Day Job The Great Chechnya Ideologist Another Maskhadov Betrayal

Part V Holy Wars in Dagestan and Bombs in Moscow

The “Brothers” Basayev The Holy Mission Ganging up on Maskhadov Establishing the New Imamate Khattab’s Bombs in Moscow?

Part VI The Wars that Shamil Started

A War to Establish Islamic Rule Everywhere Wolves areTrapped Planning How to Fight the Jihad Basayev’s “Bee Sting” Guerrilla Tactics Targeting Civilians in the Terror War Basayev’s First Suicide Battalions Did Basayev Really Sink the Kursk?
Udugov’s Information Wars The Maskhadov-Udugov Internet Wars

Part VII The Chechen Money Tree

The Chechen Mafia Branches From Oil Theft to the Sale of Nuclear Materials The Captives for Sale and Berezovsky Branches Pakistan and the Noble Cause of Chechen Muslims Saudi and Jordanian Branches Chechnya’s Turkish Commissars Azeri Traditional Routes The Shevardnadze Trail International Islamic Branches and Other Assistance Personal, Internet Appeals and Video Sales The Osama and Afghan Branches

Part VIII Hunting Down Terrorist Wolves

Sinking the “Titanic”
The Trial and Sentencing of Raduyev Dancing with Wolves Khattab’s Poison Letter Death of the Messenger and Terror Retribution Is Basayev Dead or Alive?

Part IX Nord Ost

A Leaderless Jihad?
The Summer of Radicalization Military Offensives and Planning Terror The Dubrovka Siege

Part X The Third War

A New Terror War Recognizing Terror as the Greatest Threat to National Security Who Are the Real Masters of Chechnya?
What’s Ahead: Are Wolves Thinking Globally Too?

Part XI Epilogue

The Summer 2003 Whirlwind