Doku umarov biography of william

          Umarov was a major military figure in both wars in Chechnya during the s and s, before becoming the leader of the greater insurgency in the North.!

          A man purporting to be Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov says he is alive and well, a week after Russian media reports said he might have been killed in a.

          BACKGROUND:Doku Umarov was born in 1964 in the village of Kharsenoy of the mountainous South-Eastern Chechen Shatoy district. He comes from the Mulkkhoy teyp (clan) and is an adherent of Sufi Islam, the Qadiriyya brotherhood of sheik Kunta-Haji.

          A graduate of the Oil Institute in Grozny, he was involved in business in western Siberia until 1994. During the first Russo-Chechen War (1994-1996), Umarov took an active part in resistance activities in Ruslan Gelayev’s division.

          Mr Umarov was born in in the southern Chechen village of Kharshenoi, and earned an engineering degree from the local university.

        1. The Chechen Islamic radical, who leads a group called the Caucasus Emirate, for years has been one of Russia's most-wanted men.
        2. Umarov was a major military figure in both wars in Chechnya during the s and s, before becoming the leader of the greater insurgency in the North.
        3. Umarov was the last head of the would-be insurgent government of Chechnya, and when that collapsed in , he turned to Islamist jihad in a.
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          5. In 1998 he supported Aslan Maskhadov in armed clashes with jihadist units. He is generally known for his sceptical or even negative stance towards so-called global jihad. During the interwar period (1996-1999), rumours surfaced in Chechnya about Umarov’s participation in kidnappings; according to other sources, he provided protection to some related kidnappers.

          For this, he was allegedly fired by Maskhadov from the post of Chief of the Security Council of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria before the 1999 Russian i