Shamil Basayev Annihilated in Special Operation in Ingushetia

[Gavur]

11.07.2006 02:16 GMT-08:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Shamil Basayev is annihilated in Ingushetia, along with several bandits, who were arranging acts of terrorism, Russian Federal Security Service Director Nikolay Patrushev reported to Russian President Putin. The Russian leader called annihilation of Basayev “a condign punishment” for acts of terrorism in Beslan and Budennovsk and ordered to award participants of the special operation.

To finally affirm the fact of annihilation of Basayev a genetic expertise will be held, though the special services are a hundred percent sure in his death.

In 1993 Shamil Basayev along with a detachment of Chechen Vakhabbits took part in the war against NKR on Azerbaijan’s side. Azerbaijan does not pay money to Basayev’s detachment, but provides arms and ammunition for fighting against Russian authorities.

[Joseph]

Blast fron the Past: Azeri interview with Basayev

http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/azerbaijan/hypermail/200007/0030.html

He talks a bit about Artsakh.

[Gavur]

Basayev: From Rebel to Vicious Extremist

How a student radical became the mastermind of insurgent outrages.
By Thomas de Waal in London

Institute for War & Peace Reporting, UK
July 11 2006

Shamil Basayev did not look like a man responsible for horrific
atrocities. He was soft-spoken, and with his domed forehead, bushy
beard and long Russian phrases, could have been mistaken for a Moscow
intellectual. But if he was not frightening close up, few men have
managed to terrify so many people across so wide an area.

Basayev played on his reputation and treated the long vain attempts
of the Kremlin to catch him as a kind of game. In rare interviews
over the last few years, he suggested he enjoyed being labelled a
dangerous terrorist and, in the last four years of his bloody career
when he planned the hideous operations to seize the Dubrovka Theatre
in Moscow and School No. 1 in Beslan, he lived up to the reputation.
He not only planned the detail of the operations, he designed them to
create maximum publicity and to cause the greatest possible humiliation
for his enemies in the Kremlin.

It is misleading to label Basayev as an Islamic militant. His
background was as part of a Russified generation of Chechens who
developed a strong streak of nationalism and despised all authority.
As a student radical, he idolised Che Guevara and had a poster of
the famous revolutionary on his wall.

Basayev was born in 1965 in the traditionally warlike mountain
village of Vedeno, once headquarters in the 19th century for the
great Dagestani warrior leader Imam Shamil. His family had recently
returned from collective Stalinist exile in Kazakstan, where they
had suffered sickness from Soviet nuclear testing.

Basayev studied in Moscow, where one of his teachers was Konstantin
Borovoi, who later became a famous entrepreneur and politician. In
August 1991, he joined the pro-democracy demonstrators defending the
White House in Moscow in opposition to the attempted coup d'etat.

In November 1991, he began his career of publicity stunts, hijacking
an airliner to proclaim the Chechen pro-independence cause and then
releasing all the passengers unharmed.

Basayev then became a career warrior, restless and bored unless he
was fighting someone somewhere. He fought on the Azerbaijani side in
the Nagorny Karabakh conflict, being one of the last men to leave
the besieged citadel of Shusha in May 1992 before the Armenians
captured it.

He then moved on to Abkhazia, where he joined a coalition of North
Caucasian volunteers, Cossacks and Russian special forces officers
in helping the Abkhaz win their bitter conflict with the Georgian
government. He was appointed deputy defence minister of Abkhazia
and still has many supporters there - though they do not voice those
views in public in what is now a very pro-Russian region. Persistent
rumours that he collaborated with the Russian secret services date
from this time, but they have never been substantiated by any evidence.

Basayev finally found his metier when Boris Yeltsin sent his troops
into Chechnya in December 1994. He was involved in all major operations
of the war of 1994-6, including the masterfully planned recapture of
Grozny from the Russian army in August 1996.

He should not have got out alive from his most extraordinary operation,
his raid in June 1995 deep into the heart of southern Russia, which was
halted when he seized a hospital in the town of Budyonnovsk. Following
a botched assault by Russian special forces and the death of over a
hundred people, the then Russian prime minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin,
negotiated the free passage of Basayev and his men out of the town
in return for the release of the hostages.

In Russia, Basayev was seen as a bloodthirsty terrorist but in much
of Chechnya he was regarded as a hero.

Basayev was driven by a new motive with deep roots in Chechen culture,
blood revenge, after 11 members of his family were killed in a bombing
raid near Vedeno. By this time, many who talked to him found him more
than slightly deranged. British journalist Victoria Clark, formerly
Moscow correspondent of The Observer newspaper, recalls interviewing
him in August 1995, when he was at the height of his popularity in
the mountains of Chechnya.

"We were spirited off to a place in the hills, where he was waiting
for us," Clark recalled. "He spoke all night without stopping. Things
got really out of hand when he started talking about sprinkling
radioactive dust on the Kremlin."

In the interview, Basayev revealed a strange obsession with the history
of Russia, telling Clark, "The [Russian symbol, the] double-headed
eagle is the epitome of unnatural evil. No living thing can survive
like that, so it has to become a parasite on the blood of other
nations."

Basayev still had sufficient prestige in January 1997 to collect around
a quarter of the vote in Chechnya's only ever internationally-monitored
presidential election. But as Chechnya gained de facto independence and
collapsed into chaos, his reputation began to plummet as he and other
warlords were accused of corruption and involvement in kidnapping. His
alliance with Saudi jihadist Emir Khattab alienated those Chechens who
were tired of conflict and wanted a sensible accommodation with Moscow.

Basayev appeared to positively enjoy being Russia's Enemy Number One,
a mindset that had fatal consequences for both Russians and Chechens.
In 1999, in defiance of Basayev's rival and president Aslan Maskhadov,
he and Khattab led an armed incursion into the neighbouring republic
of Dagestan. This was the cue for Russia's new prime minister Vladimir
Putin to fly to Dagestan and begin preparations for a re-invasion
of Chechnya.

Basayev lost a foot fleeing the Chechen capital Grozny across a
minefield at the beginning of the second Chechen conflict, confirming
an almost mythical reputation amongst Chechen radical fighters that
he could defy death anywhere. To the amazement of many, he lasted
another six years, eclipsing the more moderate Maskhadov as he took
on the role of an Islamic radical. He used the Internet to mock the
Kremlin and boasted that he moved freely across the North Caucasus
and even that he had married for a third time to a Russian woman in
the Krasnodar region.

The attacks on the Dubrovka Theatre and the school in Beslan confirmed
that Basayev now had no compunction about targeting civilians anywhere
in Russia. The deaths of 330 people in Beslan, half of them children,
marked the final nadir in the descent of a man who had once claimed
to be a democrat

Basayev was a talented warrior and brilliant propagandist, and a very
twisted and cruel human being. Very few will mourn his demise, with
most Chechens breathing a sigh of relief that someone who blackened
their reputation round the world is dead.

Thomas de Waal is IWPR's Caucasus Editor.

[Joseph]

Basayev fought for Azeris

Terror in Karabakh
Chechen Warlord Shamil Basayev's Tenure in Azerbaijan
By Khatchig M.

On July 10, 2006, Chechen guerrilla leader Shamil Basayev was killed in the
village of Ekazhevo, in Ingushetia. Notorious for his responsibility in the
Moscow Theatre siege (October 2002) and the Beslan school siege (September
2004), Basayev was Moscow's most wanted man, and a national hero for many
Chechens. His tenure in Abkhazia, Afghanistan, and Russia is well
documented. Little is written, however, on Basayev's short tenure in Nagorno
Karabakh in the early 1990s. Bits and pieces of information on Basayev's
participation in the Karabakh war on the side of the Azeries could be found
scattered in news reports, interviews, and commentaries published at the
time in the Azeri, Armenian, and Russian media.

Jihad in Karabakh

Basayev arrived in Azerbaijan with his unit sometime in the early 1990s to
fight against the Karabakh army along with the Azeris, allegedly at the
invitation of official Baku. The exact date of his arrival proved to be
difficult to specify by the information available with this writer, because
of the conflicting reports.

During and after the war, Chechen political figures often declined to
comment on Basayev's tenure. For example, in an interview with Chechen
opposition leader Movladi Udugov, published in "Golos Armenii" in July 28
1999, the former prime minister was asked how real are the rumors that
Chechen detachments headed by commander Shamil Basayev and Ruslan Gelayev
took part in the Karabakh war. Udugov refused to comment.

However, there are a number of statements made by Azeri political and
military figures acknowledging Basayev's role in the war against the
Armenians in Karabakh. In 2005, for example, Azeri Colonel Azer Rustamov,
who had participated in the Karabakh war, recounts that in 1992, "hundreds
of Chechen volunteers rendered us invaluable help in these battles led by
Shamil Basayev and Salman Raduev."

Last to Leave Shushi
"One of the last fighters to leave Shusha (The Azeri name for Shushi) was
the Chechen volunteer Shamil Basayev," states Thomas De Waal in his Book
Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War (NYU Press,
2003). Shushi was captured May 1992. According to some reports in the
Russian media, Basayev barely escaped being captured.

In 2000, interviewed in Chechnya, Basayev told the Azerbaijani television
company ANS: " Shusha was just abandoned. About 700 Armenians launched an
offensive and it was just a veneer. With such a strong garrison and so many
weapons, especially as Shusha itself is in a strategically significant
position, one hundred men could hold it for a year easily. There was no
organization. Today, we can take one specific general or minister, we can
just take them and say you betrayed it, you took it, you sold it. It is all
talk. There was no single management. No one was responsible for anything."

According to Russian news reports, Basayev said that during his career as a
fighter, he and his battalion only lost once, and that defeat came in
Karabakh. He went on to say that the defeat was against the "Dashnak
battalion".

No Sign of Jihad

As Sanobar Shermatova writes in an article on "(Amir Ibn) Khattab and
Central Asia", published in Moscow News on September 13, 2000: "Chechen and
Afghan fighters continued to fight in Nagorno-Karabakh until 1994. It is
noteworthy that Kabul-Baku flights carried Afghan fighters while return
flights took Chechens to training camps near the towns of Kunduz and Taloqan
that were also home to bases of Tajik opposition whose armed units had by
then been pushed out of the country and into Afghanistan."

Basayev did not stay in Karabakh for long, because he thought the war had
little to do with Jihad and so much more to do with nationalism. In an
interview aired by Azerbaijani TV station ANS on June 14, 2000, he says:
"Frankly, I personally took the mojahedins out of Azerbaijan. We did not
arrived there (Karabakh) for personal gains but for jihad".

In another interview, Basayev tells ANS: "We were greatly surprised by the
enthusiasm and patriotism of the rank-and-file personnel of the Azerbaijani
army and the apathy and mood of time-serving amongst the officer corps. We
came there not for trophies, but for jihad and to help for the sake of God.
But when we saw the situation, there was no sign of jihad. Often when great
casualties were sustained because of the lack of talent and stupidity of the
officers, simply because of the stupidity of commanders, no commander was
punished."

Would Basayev have helped Azeris in case war broke again in Nagorno
Karabakh? In a report by Azerbaijani newspaper Yeni Musavat titled "Any
method can be used to liberate Karabakh," The director of the Chechen Rights
Centre and independent journalist Mayrbek Taramov says "Chechen leaders, for
instance Shamil Basayev, used to say that they were ready to assist
Azerbaijan in re-taking Karabakh. The Chechens are ready to keep their
word".
"The Chechens have once proven that and they are ready to help the
Azerbaijani people for a second or third time. The Chechen mojahedin
consider this their holy duty," adds Taramov.

The short time Basayev spent in the region was crucial in his "career",
because, according to some reports, it was there that he met Amir Ibn
Khattab, sent to the region by Osama Bin Laden to participate in the civil
war in Tajikistan and assist the Azeries in the war against the Armenians.
It is with Khattab that Basayev later traveled to Afghanistan.

[Gavur]

Chechen court sentences Turk to 23 years in prison

19:25 | 12/ 03/ 2007

Print version

ROSTOV-ON-DON, March 12 (RIA Novosti) - A court in Chechnya has sentenced a Turkish citizen to 23 years in prison for his involvement in terrorism and criminal activities on Russian territory, a local prosecutor's office said Monday.

"The investigation established that Turkish citizen Ali Soitekinoglu underwent special military training in the Pankisi Gorge [Georgia] in the summer of 2001," the press service for the Russian Prosecutor General's office in the South Federal District said. "Later, as part of the Ruslan Gelayev criminal armed formation [killed in 2004], he illegally crossed the Russian border into Chechnya."

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070312/61883924.html

It was also established that Soitekinoglu was involved in attacks on people, law enforcement officers and military servicemen of the Russian federal forces, as well as of committing a terrorist act that killed 14 police officers.

[Joseph]

11.07.2006 02:16 GMT-08:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Shamil Basayev is annihilated in Ingushetia, along with several bandits, who were arranging acts of terrorism, Russian Federal Security Service Director Nikolay Patrushev reported to Russian President Putin. The Russian leader called annihilation of Basayev “a condign punishment” for acts of terrorism in Beslan and Budennovsk and ordered to award participants of the special operation.

To finally affirm the fact of annihilation of Basayev a genetic expertise will be held, though the special services are a hundred percent sure in his death.

In 1993 Shamil Basayev along with a detachment of Chechen Vakhabbits took part in the war against NKR on Azerbaijan’s side. Azerbaijan does not pay money to Basayev’s detachment, but provides arms and ammunition for fighting against Russian authorities.

I'm still happy he's dead.

[1.5 million]

Poor Chechens...the one people on Earth whose political leadership is arguably worse then the Kurds...

[Joseph]

Poor Chechens...the one people on Earth whose political leadership is arguably worse then the Kurds...

Seriously. They won their freedom for the most part after the 1994-1996 war as brokered by Aleksandr Lebed and then Basayev screws it all up for them by going on a jihad in Dagestan in 1999. And now Basayev is pushing up daisies and the Russians re-took Chechnya. Sure the Chechens will fight on to the last man but soon enough there won't be anymore Chechens left.

[Alexandros]

Chechen commander assassinated in front of his own home


Thursday, 11 December 2008

Islam Canibekov, a former Chechen commander, was assassinated in front of his house in the Umraniye district of Istanbul. In September, another Chechen commander was also killed in Istanbul.

Returning home with his family after an evening with friends at approximately 22:00, 38-year-old Islam Canibekof was victim to an armed attack as he was getting out of his car. Canibekoff died instantly from three gunshots in plain sight of his wife and children. According to police investigations the gunshots hit the victim from a diagonal angle and the weapons used were especially made for the KGB. Known as 'small special guns' and used in assassinations, both the SP3 and SM4 models only let off minimal noise when shot. Police are stating that the previous Chechen commander that was murdered, Gazhi Edilsultanov was also killed by a 7.62 gun and the same weapon might have been used in both murders. Canibekof, who had been residing in Istanbul for six years now, and known for moving numerous times, had been living in Umraniye for two years and was involved in the blanket business.

Link

[ardakilic]

I'm still happy he's dead.

And I'm sad he's dead.