entire chechen population to central asia, a deeply radicalizing experience, as much as a third or a half of the chechen population died there. in the 90s and early 2000s, russia fought a brutal war there against chechen separatist who is became increasingly affiliated with the islamic, islamic terrorist insurgencies around the world. it radicalized both sides, russia and the chechens, for the churchens, the chechens because increasingly radicalized and islamized. i want to bring the folks in new york into this. what s interesting to me, the chechen terrorist attacks in russia have been staggering. what has happened to the chechen population in the course of the last 100 years, they ve been brutalized, displaced, what haas happened in these terrorist attacks in russia. the 2000 moscow siege, killed
copycats, more of the small domestic terror cells? and how does law enforcement need to respond effectively? not necessarily to catch them. they did it well but prevent it in the first place? you will see copycat threats. when i sat there every night with the threat math matrix, after every event, that is the matrix they use to track threats after every event someone could call in and say i want to do something like that. what i fear is people too quickly will categorize this as terrorism. this looks more like columbine than al-qaeda. two kids ra radicalize and between themselves gand out to commit murder. these are murders not terrorists. chris: you have a report from russia. he spend six months in russia, kretch anyia in that area where there are radicals, chechen separatist or islamists. how can you write off the idea there was an outside influence here? i m not writing that off. but i m saying we want to
copycats, more of the small domestic terror cells? and how does law enforcement need to respond effectively? not necessarily to catch them. they did it well but prevent it in the first place? you will see copycat threats. when i sat there every night with the threat math matrix, after every event, that is the matrix they use to track threats after every event someone could call in and say i want to do something like that. what i fear is people too quickly will categorize this as terrorism. this looks more like columbine than al-qaeda. two kids ra radicalize and between themselves gand out to commit murder. these are murders not terrorists. chris: you have a report from russia. he spend six months in russia, kretch anyia in that area where there are radicals, chechen separatist or islamists. how can you write off the idea there was an outside influence here? i m not writing that off.
evidence of a you tube page that may connect to the older brother. the younger brother there s very thin evidence of anything. on the elder brother, tamerlan s you tube channel there s an equal number of rap videos. i don t know why we tend to focus on this one particular aspect because they have a lot of consonants in their name but in lots of other context we go to other kind of motivation. we really ought to look at those. there s a history of terrorism being used as a military tactic. has there ever been an american target on a target outside of russian federation for chechen
right. terrorism against civilians in moscow metro stations in order to try to get their way at home in chechnya. has there ever been an american target on a target outside of russian federation for chechen separatist terrorists? no. there s been people killed outside of chechnya but they tended to be chechen, either islamists or those targeted by the russian federation, that is to say the fighters being killed outside of they haven t globalized that fight before? no. it s worked in the opposite direction. that s to say the jihadist networks based in the middle east or south asia or afghanistan, elsewhere, have tended to see chechnya as a branch of the global jihad. if you look at the theorists of goebl jihad,