No 'threat against Turkey', 'Russia's heartland' was meant. Western correspondents in Moscow garbled words of Emir Dokku Abu Usman

Western correspondents in Moscow reported around midday on November 21 about the video appeal of the Caucasian Mujahideen's Emir Dokku Abu Usman to the people and government of Turkey which had been posted on the Kavkaz Center late afternoon on November 20.

They were not afraid to quote from the Kavkaz Center, although the website had been officially banned in Russia on November 16 and a thug from the Russian terrorist organization "Anti-Terrorism Committee", the NAC, threatened in Moscow's paper Izvestia newspaper on November 17, that any person, citing Kavkaz Center, would be jailed for 15 days.

However, Western agencies could not nevertheless do without "black propaganda".

In similar reports from Moscow, AFP, the AP and the Italian news agency AGI garbled the words of Emir Dokku Abu Usman and focused, out of prejudice, their attention to their own claim that he allegedly "threatened Turkey".

Here is as an example the report from Moscow bureau of Agence France-Presse, which is almost identical to that by the AP or Agencia Giornalista Italia (under the heading "Chechnya's "Russian Bin Laden" threatens Turkey"):

"Chechen militant threatens Turkey after killings‎

MOSCOW - Agence France-Presse

The Chechen militant blamed for deadly attacks in Moscow has threatened Turkey with retaliation after the killings of a number of Caucasus militants on Turkish soil.

Doku Umarov, who has survived numerous attempts on his life by Russia, said the militants were killed by Russian agents whose activities had been deliberately tolerated by the Turkish secret services.

In September, three Caucasus men were shot outside a mosque in Istanbul. Russian investigators later said two of them were Chechens and suspects in the deadly bombing of a Moscow airport this year.

"If you do not take measures then with the help of Allah we will take the necessary measures, there can be no doubt of that!" said Umarov, addressing the Turkish people and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

"If we take measures in response, then Russia will never plan a murder of even one more person from the Caucasus on your soil," he added in the video posted late Sunday on the Kavkaz Center website which serves as a mouthpiece of the Caucasus militants, AFP quoted Dokku Umarov in its own description.

Meanwhile, Emir of the Caucasian Mujahideen had actually said the following:

"If you are unable to take such measures, then, Insha'Allah, with Allah's help we will take necessary measures ourselves, there can be no doubt about it! If we take a retaliatory action, then Russia will never think to kill even a single Caucasian on your territory.

We ask you, for the sake of Allah, do not allow this lawlessness happen on you territory. For Allah's sake, because we are all to appear before Allah and only what we have done for the sake of Allah will be accepted from us on the Day of Judgment".

These words clearly imply that Dokku Umarov established negligence from the part of Turkish authorities and called on them to take measures to stop terrorist activities of Russian security services on the Turkish territory. As for the threat, it is obvious that it clearly directed against Russia, and not against Turkey.

Meanwhile, AFP continues:

"Umarov, dressed in camouflage clothing and sitting next to a fellow militant, indicated in the video that Russian secret agents had entered Turkey disguised as tourists or with the help of Turkish construction companies.

He said their weapons were delivered into the country in Russian diplomatic bags.

Umarov, who leads the Caucasus Emirate group that wants to set up a breakaway Islamic state in the Russian Caucasus, claimed responsibility for the Moscow airport bombing that killed 37 people in January and a 2010 twin suicide bombing that killed 40 on the Moscow metro.

Monday, November 21, 2011"

Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center