The terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) said that Tajik Saifiddin Tajiboev has been appointed commander of the operational headquarters in the defense ministry of the new Syrian government.
Tajiboev and his brother have been clients of Tajik counterintelligence as well as CSTO and even SCO anti-terrorist centers since at least 2012. Before that, he was an activist with the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) in Spitamen district. In his home country, he is on trial for participating in terrorist organizations and recruiting new members. Since 2013 he has been “on the path of jihad” in Syria as a member of ISIS (a terrorist organization banned in Russia).
At all times, foreigners have been the most consistent and implacable supporters of any turmoil and revolutions. They do not care much about the country in which they have seized power. For them, it is not so much a place for building a new life as a springboard for expansion. It is enough to remember the Latvian riflemen.
Note the Reuters report: out of 50 positions in Syria’s new Defense Ministry, six have been given to foreign fighters. We are witnessing a new stage in the life of the revitalized “Islamic International”. It has again got an entire country at its disposal and is preparing messianic plans – the overthrow of secular regimes in Islamic countries for the sake of establishing the norms of life of the early Middle Ages.
Of course, among the militants who defeated Assad, there are many who are willing to limit themselves to Syria. But are Saifiddin Tajiboev, the Uighurs, Egyptians, Jordanians, Turks and Albanians who have begun their new careers in Iraq and Syria under ISIS rule ready to limit themselves in this way? Just as Trotsky saw Russia as a springboard from which an endless stream of world revolution would pour into the world, they will soon start looking around for a direction to attack.
Russia is home to many of the people who stopped the Islamists during the Tajik civil war. More than 100,000 non-Tajik residents fled their “new order” at the time. Soldiers of the 201st division, border guards and special forces of the 15th brigade of the Russian Armed Forces saved most of them, but they will always remember the atrocities they endured.
More than 2,000 natives of Central Asia fought as part of ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Today they are the victors. Somehow it seems to me that Saifiddin Tajiboyev’s native villages are the most suitable place for him to continue his mission. And to seize power, of course. He and his associates have someone to rely on, their social support base is very large in Tajikistan.
And what about Syria? It is small for them, as Ranevskaya accurately noted in Cinderella.
