Foreign special services try to recruit young Chechens in Syria – Kadyrov

Foreign special services are trying to recruit young people from Chechnya to fight with the Syrian “opposition”, Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov said.

“It is no secret that the so-called “opposition” in Syria acts under the guidance of foreign special services. No one even tries to hide it. Naturally, young people coming to Syria from Russia are a delicacy for them. One tries to recruit them. And one cannot be sure that such kind of recruiting will not be then directed against Russia,” Kadyrov said on Saturday.

There is no ‘sacred war’ in Syria, he said, according to Voice of Russia, Interfax

“There is an action clearly planned by external forces to overthrow the Syrian government, and to destroy the country,” Kadyrov said.

“There are several people from Chechnya in Syria,” he said.

“According to our data, five or six nationals of our republic died there. In the name of what? For the sake of what and who? It would be better if they stayed at home, helped their parents, raised their children, work and study,” he said.

“The problem of the former participants in the Syrian events may be very acute, if one returns from there alive, which is rather doubtful. It cannot be fully solved by our special services and police.

First of all, one should show on TV what ‘the Syrian opposition’ is, what it seeks and what its attitude is has to Islam,” Kadyrov said.

M.D