Edward Royce actually said...

"the al-Qaeda-linked groups have developed really a methodology with the use of suicide bombings that they have carried to quite an extent."

"the way in which this Chechen al-Qaeda-linked organization was going house to house in their state, which neighbors Chechnya, and giving young men an option of either joining the movement, the jihad, ..."

"we are changing our culture to this al-Qaeda, you know, psychology, and that it is a Gulf state culture, in his mind."

"this was much more than just a movement for Chechen independence, indeed it was much more ambitious, because the idea was a caliphate for the whole region."