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Abdallakh Shamil
Shamil Basayev
Full name: Shamil Salmanovich Basayev
Born: January 14, 1965 in a village near the town of Vedeno in south-eastern Chechnya
In 1987, enrolled at the Moscow Engineering Institute of Land Management (expelled in 1988)
In 1992, fought on the side of separatists in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia
In 1995, led a hostage-taking raid at Budennovsk, a town in southern Russia.
In August 1996, led a successful operation to retake the Chechen capital Grozny, driving out Russian troops
In December 1996, run for president in Chechnya’s first presidential election, coming in second with 23.5% of the vote.
In
January, 1998 appointed prime minister of Chechnya by Chechen president
Aslan Maskhadov for a six-month term, after which he resigned
In
August and September 1999, led a small army of radical Chechens in an
unsuccessful attempt to take over the neighbouring Russian territory of
Dagestan
In January 2000, lost a foot after stepping on a landmine while leading the rebel withdrawal from Grozny
In November 2002, claimed responsibility for the Moscow theatre siege
In September 2004, claimed responsibility for a number of terrorist
acts, including the downing of two passenger jets and the school
hostage siege in the south Russian town of Beslan
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https://en.crimerussia.com/
April 17, 2018
According to Kavpolit.com, in late 1998, colonel Chenchik was appointed the Commander of the 20th Special Ops Company “Vega” of the Russian MIA that had later participated in military operations in Dagestan after the intervention of forces under the command of Shamil Basaev and Ibn al-Khattab into ...
Open Democracy
April 17, 2018
Putin made his now-proverbial remark about “wasting terrorists in the toilet” in the wake of the bombing of Chechnya's capital by Russian fighter planes in September 1999. Shamil Basayev and Emir Khattab's militants had invaded Dagestan a month previously. Russian prime minister Sergey Stepashin ...
American Spectator
March 15, 2018
Today, IHH's website features a tribute to Shamil Basayev, the Chechen terrorist responsible for the Beslan school siege, in which 350 people were murdered, including 186 children. “Participants in this study,” the authors write, “consistently expressed a 'compliance fatigue'” with antiterrorism regulations.
RAPSI
February 28, 2018
The court found that Zakayev was a member of a criminal gang headed by Chechen separatist leader Shamil Basayev and assisted in organizing the terrorist attack and taking of hostages at the theater. In 2002, he allegedly organized transportation of weapon and homemade explosive devices to Moscow ...
RAPSI
February 22, 2018
Investigators claim that in July 1999, the accused joined a gang under the leadership of notorious warlords Shamil Basayev and Emir Khattab. In August 1999, about 1,000 gang members with automatic arms, grenades and bombs, attempted the life of Russian servicemen in the Republic of Dagestan ...
The Moscow Times
December 14, 2017
A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced two of the perpetrators behind the deadly 1995 terrorist attack in Budyonnovsk that left more than 120 people dead and some 500 injured. Led by Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, around 200 heavily armed Chechen militants stormed the southern Russian town ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 13, 2017
Two Chechen men have been sentenced to prison over a deadly hostage-taking attack in the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk in 1995, a turning point in the first of two post-Soviet separatist wars in nearby Chechnya. The North Caucasus Regional Military Court in the city of Rostov-on-Don found ...
https://en.crimerussia.com/
October 15, 2017
New details emerge on operation against 'Russian terrorist No. 1' Shamil Basayev. New details emerge on operation against 'Russian terrorist No. 1' Shamil Basayev Shamil Basaev ...
https://en.crimerussia.com/
August 2, 2017
The District Military Court of Rostov-on-Don passed a verdict in the criminal case against Ayub Tuntuev, a member of Shamil Basaev's gang, who organized an attack on a subdivision of the Russian Defense Ministry on the territory of Chechnya. The defendant was found guilty of Attempt upon the Life of ...
Sputnik International
July 11, 2017
The Russian Embassy in Ankara regrets the article in the Turkish pro-government newspaper Yeni Akit praising Chechen terrorist warlord Shamil Basayev, the embassy's press secretary Alexander Leshukov told Sputnik on Tuesday. ANKARA (Sputnik) — The Yeni Akit newspaper published an article on ...
www.worldbulletin.net
September 4, 2016
Shamil Basayev was the heroic son of the Chechens that gave a continuous struggle for existence against the Russians. He was named after Sheikh Shamil, the symbolic name of the struggle against Russians, the milestone of faith and resistance. For generations, they at the centre of a heated struggle for ...
BBC News
July 12, 2006
The most wanted Chechen rebel warlord, Shamil Basayev, has died in an explosion in the neighbouring republic of Ingushetia. Russia's FSB security service chief, Nikolai Patrushev, said Basayev was killed in a "special operation". But a pro-rebel website said Basayev and three other militants died when a ...
CNN
July 12, 2006
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Russian security agents have killed the nation's most-wanted man, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, the director of the Federal Security Service said Monday. Basayev claimed responsibility for the Beslan school attack in 2004, in which 331 people, half of them children, were ...
ABC Online
July 12, 2006
TONY EASTLEY: One of the world's most wanted terrorists, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, has been killed in southern Russia as he was apparently embarking on a new assault aimed at the G8 ... EMMA GRIFFITHS: Shamil Basayev was the most brutal and fearsome of Chechnya's rebel leaders.
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