Allah’s Mountains

Allah’s Mountains

By: Sebastian Smith 

Shamil Basayev Chechen hero, most wanted man in Russia sits in front of me and lights a Marlboro. We are in a dusty courtyard at the edge of Dargo, a village lost in the jungle-like foothills of the Caucasus, far behind the frontlines, with only the speck of a war plane circling high overhead to remind us of the Russians. Basayev wears a faded camouflage suit, sandals and a Moslem amulet on a thin black cord around his neck. A Russian special forces rifle topped by a silencer lies on his lap and he drinks heavily-sweetened black tea from a tin mug. Nearby sit bodyguards: tall men with carved, tanned and bearded faces – faces from another age, almost Biblical. Their chests are heavy with grenades, Kalashnikov ammunition clips and the long Caucasus dagger, the kinzhal. [download]

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