Central Asia

Central Asia (Region)

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Yossef Bodansky	“According to Yossef Bodansky, then Director of the US Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, Washington was actively involved in "yet another anti-Russian jihad, seeking to support and empower the most virulent anti-Western Islamist forces." Bodansky revealed the entire CIA Caucasus strategy in detail in his report, stating that US Government officials participated in "a formal meeting in Azerbaijan in December 1999 in which specific programs for the training and equipping of Mujahideen from the Caucasus, Central/South Asia and the Arab world were discussed and agreed upon, culminating in Washington's tacit encouragement of both Muslim allies (mainly Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia) and US "private security companies'. . . to assist the Chechens and their Islamist allies to surge in the spring of 2000 and sustain the ensuing Jihad for a long time…Islamist Jihad in the Caucasus as a way to deprive Russia of a viable pipeline route through spiraling violence and terrorism".”	William Engdahl Yossef Bodansky	2015
Graham Fuller	“The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvellously well in Afghanistan against the Red Army. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia”	Graham Fuller	2005
Fethullah Gülen	“He has since established more than 300 madrasahs in Central Asia and what he calls universities that have a front that is called Moderate Islam, but he is closely involved in training mujahideen-like militia Islam who are brought from Pakistan and Afghanistan into Central Asia where his madrasahs operate, and his organization's network is estimated to be around $25 billion. He has opened several Islamic universities in the United States. As I said it's being promoted under Moderate Islam. It is supported by certain U.S. authorities here because of the operations in Central Asia, but what they have been doing since late 1990s is actually radical Islam and militizing (phonetic) these very, very young, from the age 14, 15, by commandoes they use, and this is both commandoes from Turkish military, commandoes from Pakistani ISI in Central Asia and Azerbaijan, and after that they bring them to Turkey, and from Turkey they send them through Europe, to European and elsewhere.”	Sibel Edmonds Fethullah Gülen	2009

 

Nation states

Nation state	Description
Afghanistan	"The graveyard of empires" - Afghanistan has a reputation for undoing ambitious military ventures and humiliating would-be aggressors.
Kazakhstan	Uranium/tar sands rich central Asian nation, former part of the USSR.
Kyrgyzstan	A former part of the USSR.
Mongolia	Mongol Nation, is the worlds largest landlocked country
Tajikistan	Central Asian nation states which was one of of only 3 worldwide (as of July 2021) to mandate vaccination for all adults.
Turkmenistan	Natural gas rich Asian state. One of the first 3 nation states in the world to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for all adults.
Uzbekistan	Former USSR country in Central Asia. Home to the 3 most important cities on the Silk Road.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground	report	24 April 2019	James Dobbins Raphael S. Cohen Nathan Chandler Bryan Frederick Edward Geist Paul DeLuca Forrest E. Morgan Howard J. Shatz Brent Williams	The United States is currently locked in a great-power competition with Russia. This report seeks to define areas where the United States can compete to its own advantage.

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