What's with the Khattab's hand. Basayev and Khattab - in the public domain

This man, either personally or through his militants, over the past 15 years managed to "light up" in many regions of the world where armed conflicts took place: in the Philippines, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Tajikistan, Chechnya. In the dossier of the special services of almost all countries, he appears under the nicknames One-armed Ahmed, Black Spider, Black Arab and Emir Khattab.

Glory infused with blood

Khattab arrived in Russia in the late spring of 1995 at the height of the first Chechen war. Not one arrived. Together with him, about two hundred so-called "Arab Afghans" - citizens of the Arab states who fought in Afghanistan against Soviet troops. In total for the period 1994-1996. more than a thousand Arab mercenaries took part in the conflict ...

At first, Khattab was not among the known field commanders. They started talking about him at the top of their voices only a year after his arrival in Chechnya.

On April 16, 1996, near the village of Yaryshmardy, mercenaries under the command of a Black Arab organized an ambush and defeated the rear column of federal troops, consisting of more than 200 soldiers and officers. From that moment Khattab became the most famous mercenary in Chechnya.

At number 1.

Who is Khattab?

Little is known about this killer at the same time. The information received about this person often refutes each other.

Khattab's birthplace is Jordan. In Amman - the capital of the state - he finishes military academy and enters the service in the personal protection of King Hussein of Jordan. With the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, gentlemen of fortune from all over the world were drawn to the Mujahideen units. First of all, from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates. The city of Medina became the center for the recruitment of mercenaries to participate in the fight against the "Soviet shaitans".

Khattab, a professional military man and specialist in mine-explosives, did not stand aside either. A religious fanatic professing the most aggressive movement in Islam - Wahhabism, the Black Arab hated not only Russians and all other infidels, but also did not spare Muslims who did not accept the ideas of Wahhabism.

In Afghanistan, Khattab's documents, like those of all other mercenaries, went through a special department for the formation of Mujahideen detachments. Managed by none other than Osama bin Laden himself. It was he who knew and knows the real names and biographies of all modern terrorists, providing them with financial assistance and actually directing their actions.

Of course, bin Laden does not give money just like that. Requires a report and evidence that the funds were used for their intended purpose. Therefore, Khattab does not part with his personal operator for a minute. Everything is filmed: the fighting, in which One-armed Ahmed personally prefers not to interfere, leading the detachments by radio, and the consequences of these same military operations. Here Khattab is already posing in person, without getting out of the frame. Against the backdrop of the corpses of Russian soldiers, near burning armored personnel carriers and tanks, next to smiling comrades-in-arms, constantly shouting "Allah Akbar" into the camera.

He sends Khattab to his master bin Laden and filmed particularly cruel executions of Russian soldiers and officers. The Jordanian especially loves this business. Distinguished by pathological cruelty, Khattab personally executed many prisoners.

Registered forever?

In Afghanistan, a Black Arab crippled his right hand after a grenade explosion. However, the system of "warriors of Islam" did not leave.

After the withdrawal of Soviet troops, Tajikistan fell into the sphere of interests of the terrorist. And in 1992, Jordanian emissaries frequented Chechnya. The scope of their interests was clear: Ichkeria's oil, gas, transport routes. And power over the "non-Wahhabis".

Apparently, Khattab liked Ichkeria and he is going to stay here for a long time. Shortly before the invasion of Dagestan and the beginning of the second Chechen war, the Jordanian acquired a luxurious mansion near Serzhen-Yurt. He married a Dargin woman from mountainous Dagestan. More recently, Khattab had a daughter. The most interesting thing is that the terrorist sent his wife to give birth not to Turkey or Pakistan, but to ... Russia. The birthplace of the daughter of the Black Arab is the city of Kaspiysk. The same Kaspiysk, where the Wahhabis blew up the house where the Russian border guards lived with their families.

And here many questions arise. Why does a Jordanian feel so at ease on the territory of Russia? How does he know Russian so well? Better, by the way, than many Chechens! Why does the killer of Russian soldiers freely cross the borders of many states? How to explain that a terrorist put on the international wanted list by Interpol freely gives interviews to a national company in Turkey and is not detained by the Turkish authorities?

Maybe the rumors are really true that the "sweet couple" in the form of one-armed Khattab and one-legged Basayev is needed not only by Osama bin Laden, but also by the special services of a number of states?

If this is so, then the Black Arab in Russia was registered not just for a long time, but forever.

Special services reported details of the operation to destroy Khattab

The organizer of the explosions of residential buildings in Moscow, field commander Khattab, was destroyed in Chechnya on March 19, 2002. His elimination was probably the most successful special operation since the assassination of Dzhokhar Dudayev during the first Chechen war. Kommersant correspondents managed to find out some details of how the KGB dealt with the Black Arab. In any case, the version proposed by the security services looks very plausible.

The Russian special services began to hunt for Khattab back in 1996, after in April of that year he and a small group destroyed a convoy of the 245th from an ambush motorized rifle regiment near the village of Yarysh-Mardy in the Argun Gorge. Then 53 soldiers were killed and 52 were wounded. However, the Black Arab, sentenced to death by the Ministry of Defense and the FSB, seemed to be protected by Allah - he somehow incredibly managed to avoid the ambushes set up by the special forces, and even the missiles that the federals aimed at his satellite phone.

Khattab also survived after being seriously wounded in 1999, when his and Shamil Basayev's detachments entered Dagestan. The leadership of the Russian special services decided to put an end to the biography of the terrorist, who received the nickname Volosaty from the operatives (they call Maskhadov Ushasty, and Basayev - Lame), the leadership of the Russian special services decided to put an end to it in the fall of that year - even then it turned out that the explosions of residential buildings in Moscow, Volgodonsk and Buynaksk were organized and financed Black Arab.

Together with the first troops that entered Chechnya, there were fighters from the famous special groups Alpha and Vympel of the FSB anti-terrorist center, the GRU special forces and the Vityaz detachment of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, before whom the command set specific task: Find, capture or destroy the leaders of the resistance. One of the first numbers on this list was Khattab.

The commandos say that several times the terrorist field commander literally slipped out of their hands. The FSB managed to recruit a man who was part of the Khattab detachment. From him, the secret service learned that the Black Arab surrounded himself with a triple ring of protection. And the Arabs from his inner circle do not let anyone near Khattab himself. Even some field commanders with whom he fought during the first Chechen campaign.

Nevertheless, a militant agent once managed to smuggle into the Khattab camp, located in the Nozhai-Yurt district, an electronic "beacon" with which it was possible to quite accurately determine the location of the field commander. But the already scheduled operation to capture the Black Arab fell through for purely technical reasons: the battery power of the device was only enough for half an hour of work, and during this time the special forces search group located in the mountains simply did not have time to reach the desired point. Having made several more attempts to capture Khattab, which failed, the FSB decided to use the experience of the 1930s and 1940s, when the Soviet secret services actively used poisons to eliminate people they did not like. The poison, however, was replaced by the most modern poisonous substance. He processed a letter sent from Saudi Arabia to Khattab and intercepted by FSB agents. Any contact with the message was fatal, and the effect of the poison increased significantly from time to time. The entire chain through which the letter was then sent to the addressee was doomed. The only difference is that the recipient who opened the message will die immediately, and the rest - after a while.

Kommersant's sources claim that the letter killed not only the Black Arab, but at least ten people close to him and couriers. One of the couriers, Dagestani Wahhabi Magomedali Magomedov, as Kommersant has already reported (see the issue of May 25 this year), was sorted out by the Chechens themselves, who were conducting their own investigation into the death of the field commander. But as it now turns out, the Russian special services used Magomedov and other intermediaries in the dark - they did not know that the letter had been poisoned and that they themselves had already received a lethal dose of poison.

Realizing the destructive power of the letter, the Chechens, according to Kommersant's sources, decided to use it in the fight against the federals themselves. By order of Shamil Basayev, the message, sealed in polyethylene, was thrown into a cache with weapons near the village of Gorny Alleroy, Nozhai-Yurt District, information about which the militants, through acquaintances of Chechen policemen, reported to the federal forces. The cache was discovered by army intelligence - the sergeant who found and examined the letter, and the commander of the battalion in which he served, died. And while the army authorities were sorting out the circumstances of their death, the letter was sent to the FSB as a possible source of the most important information for the federals about the militants. How many more people could ruin this message, one can only guess. But just at that time, an FSB specialist was on a business trip in Chechnya, who participated in the development of the liquidation of Khattab. Before being sent to Russia, they brought him a letter. They say that, as soon as he saw the familiar envelope, the officer grabbed the special communications tube and began to call for an ambulance helicopter. The poisoner was saved - he became an invalid. The letter that killed Khattab and many others was destroyed.

Dossier on Khattab
Khattab (Khabib Abdul Rahman), aka Black Arab, aka Ahmed One-armed, aka Emir ibn Al Khattab

Origin

Date of Birth
Several options: 1963 or 1965 or 1970
Place of Birth
According to some sources - Saudi Arabia, according to others - Jordan (although Jordan assures that the terrorist Khattab has nothing to do with it)

Education

In 1987 he graduated from high school and was already admitted to one of the American colleges, but went on vacation to Afghanistan. There he met with bin Laden and was imbued with the ideas of jihad.
Graduated from the military academy in Amman (MN time)
Family status
He is married to a Dargin woman from the Dagestan village of Karamakhi. Has a daughter.
The main stages of the biography
He served in the "Circassian Guard of King Hussein".

Fanatic adherent of Wahhabism.

Is an expert on explosives and all types of light weapons, as well as sabotage operations. He has experience in military and terrorist operations since 1982.

He fought in Afghanistan, Iraq, Tajikistan, according to some reports, he was involved in terrorist attacks in Israel.

1992-1993 - fought in the Arab commandos.

In 1993, in the battles for Kabul, Khattab was seriously wounded.

1993 -1995 - headed the "special unit" in Tajikistan.

In Tajikistan, he lost several fingers from a grenade explosion, for which he received the nickname Ahmed Odnorukiy.

In 1994 - 1995 proceeded to form two groups of commandos, mostly Egyptians and Saudis, for the Chechen war.

He arrived in Chechnya in 1994 as part of a group of militants who arrived in Russia from the countries of the Middle East.

In April 1996, he organized an ambush and shot down a caravan of federal troops near the village of Shatoy.

At the end of 1997, he attacked part of the 136th motorized rifle brigade in the city of Buynaksk (this action served as a kind of test of strength before future aggression in Dagestan).

After the first Chechen war, he declared that he would continue jihad until complete victory over the unbelievers.

Created a network of specialized terrorist training camps in the mountainous regions of Chechnya. The main base was located near the village of Serzhen-Yurt.

In mid-1998, I found " mutual language"with Basayev on the basis of a joint dream - the creation of an Islamic imamate on the territory of the entire North Caucasus (before that, their relationship was very strained).

In September 1999, together with Basayev's militants, Khattab's "fighters" invaded the territory of Dagestan.

In January 2000, he told the Reuters news agency that the militants not only would not stop resisting, but were also ready for sabotage on Russian territory.

In March, he set up an ambush near Zhani-Vedeno (according to various sources, from 25 to 40 riot policemen died).

In December 2000, Khattab announced on Al-Jazeera Arabic television that he would help the Palestinian people.

In February 2001, according to the FSB, he participated in the kidnapping of American Kenneth Gluck.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, Khattab is the customer behind the terrorist attacks committed on March 24, 2001 in Minvody, Essentuki and Cherkessk.

Additional Information

Growth is average. One of the hands is missing the index and middle fingers. He speaks Russian with an accent... Khattab has ancestral roots in Chechnya. 9 years ago he went to fight in Afghanistan. Then - to Tajikistan. Everywhere he created mobile terrorist groups of 100-150 people... Emir Khattab is an implacable enemy of Russia. Mine Warfare Professional. Very religious. In total, Khattab has been fighting for about 15 years. In Afghanistan - against the USSR. In Iraq - against NATO and Israel. In Chechnya - against Russia. ("Rossiyskaya Gazeta", 1999)

He dreamed of becoming a scientist, physicist or mathematician. However, instead of a prestigious university, he decided to fight the "infidels" until they were completely destroyed.

He speaks Arabic, Russian, English and Pashtun.

Khattab not only does not hide, but, on the contrary, even flaunts with his pathological cruelty. He personally cracks down on prisoners, killing people exclusively with melee weapons. Violating all the commandments of Islam, more than once mocked the corpses, cutting off their ears, noses, genitals, removing scalps. This is confirmed by numerous video and photographic materials. They are distributed in Russia and abroad not only for the purpose of exerting psychological pressure on Russian military personnel, but also for enrichment. criminal gangs. (“Independent military review”, Moscow, 1999)

"For a month you were taught the art of sabotage, bribery, spreading rumors. Your task is" to sow deadly terror among those who sold Allah. Every hour they must feel the cold hand of death ... ". From Khattab's speech to the graduates of the sabotage school in 1997. ("Star of Altai", 1999)

Khattab ordered black flags to be installed on every car of the Wahhabis - signs of a "holy war" with the infidels. In his latest speeches, he calls Dagestan the next front, where "gazzavat" will unfold. Khattab is a key figure in securing financial flows from Saudi Arabia and Jordan to expand the influence of the Wahhabis in the North. ("Soviet Russia", 1999)

From an interview with Khattab. “I am a rather poor person. And I don't do my job for money. Helping a fellow Muslim is the duty of every Muslim. And we, in turn, help Muslims. Not necessarily - entire states. Separate people. In addition, the work of our center does not require special costs. Just for three months, we teach the brothers Islam, how to handle weapons, mines and so on. And after a three-month training course, young people undergo practical training on the territory of Russia - in the republics adjacent to Chechnya. More often - in Dagestan. But not against his peoples, but against the Russians. The sacred duty of every Muslim is jihad." ("Komsomolskaya Pravda", 1999)

The FSB vigilantly monitors publications on free Internet platforms. After the statement of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin that The Internet originated as a CIA project, Russian authorities repeatedly demanded from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia delete certain pages.

But something remains outside the attention of the special services.

Kavkaz.Realii got acquainted with the Arabic and English versions of some articles on Wikipedia.

"Star" Shamil Basayev

A participant in the Chechen wars, Shamil Basayev, is marked in the Arabic Wikipedia with a five-pointed star: - in the category of "chosen ones." Even his colleague Khattab did not receive such attention, although he was an Arab by birth.

Despite the fact that Basayev was included in the lists of terrorists not only by Russia, but also by the US State Department, the European Union and even the UN, neither in the English nor in the Arabic version he is called a terrorist ( English-speaking authors they speak of him as a "Chechen armed Islamist", "leader of the Chechen movement", Arabic-speakers - as a "Chechen military commander, a participant in the wars for the independence of Chechnya from Russia"). But in Russian article already in the first sentence it says: "Chechen terrorist."

The Arabic article ends with a listing of Basayev's posthumous awards.

Khattab Phenomenon

A native of Saudi Arabia, Khattab is not called a terrorist in both of the considered foreign language versions. In English he is a "Chechen field commander and mujahid of the Chechen wars." In an Arabic article Khattab, despite the absence of a "star", is presented as a personality worthy of study.

"Khattab is considered one of the symbols of the Arab Mujahideen who fought in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Dagestan, Chechnya. Interpol put him on the international wanted list under pressure from Russia," says a large Arabic-language article with a lot of photos and details of his childhood. It is told how his father took little Khattab to the mountains every week, where he taught courage.

The phenomenon of "Jihadist tactics of Khattab" is considered separately. The "Spiritual heritage" section describes in detail the "style of Khattab". And on the territory of Russia, this is available in the public domain.

"Unifier" Doku Umarov

But the late leader of the "Caucasus Emirate" Doku Umarov is called a terrorist in both the Russian and English versions of Wikipedia. "For several years, Umarov was the main terrorist leader in Russia," write the authors of the English articles.

But in an Arabic article about Doku Umarov speak more with respect than with condemnation. He is not called there either a terrorist, or an Islamist, or a militant. He is "the first ruler of the Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus". With sympathy, the authors of the article describe how Umarov tried to unite the ranks of the local Mujahideen fighting against Russian troops.

"Despite the fact that his announcement of the Emirate met with resistance, this did not affect the operations of the Mujahideen in the Caucasus, and Emir Abu-Usman Doku Umarov ( Abu-Usman - the second name of Doku Umarov - approx. "Kavkaz.Realities") made a trip to the provinces of the Caucasus from January 15 to January 24, 2008, to get acquainted with the situation of the Mujahideen in winter, to find out if they are ready for spring and the coming summer," the authors of the Wikipedia article conclude. The last edit is dated May 20, 2017 .

Buried! underground

Russian Wikipedia has already sent the armed formations of the North Caucasus into the past.

Thus, "Vilayat Dagestan" "set as its goal the withdrawal of the Republic of Dagestan from the Russian Federation", "was part of the so-called" Caucasus Emirate "". The Emirate of the Caucasus, the jamaats of Nokhchichoi, Ingush, Ossetian, Kabardino-Balkarian, and others are also in the past tense. Explaining the choice of the past tense, the authors refer to statements by local authorities that there are no more militants on the territory of their republics.

The difference between the English and Arabic versions and the Russian ones is that the specified organizations continue their activities in them and are not designated as "terrorist".

The indelible past of the Kadyrovs

Kadyrovtsy in Russian Wikipedia is ten years younger than in English and Arabic.

In the English article "Kadyrovtsy" "began to form during the First Chechen War to fight the Russian army." Arabic version write that "the Kadyrovites appeared during the First Chechen War, when Akhmat Kadyrov declared jihad against Russia, but at the beginning of the Second Chechen War, Kadyrov's group broke away and joined the Russian camp, and since then they have been led by Ramzan Kadyrov with the support of the FSB."

History of the Kadyrovites in the article "Kadyrovtsy"(emphasis on "s") begins in 2006, when "under the patronage of Ramzan Kadyrov, the 'North' and 'South' battalions were created." The authors "cut off" the period of their struggle against the Kremlin.

Fighters of the Chechen battalion "Death" fight on the side of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine

As for the Kadyrovs themselves, father and son, it makes no sense for the authors of the articles to "cut off" the well-known fact of their opposition to Moscow in the 1990s. But about this mentioned not at all at the beginning, but after listing the numerous titles and positions acquired in the service of the President of the Russian Federation.

However, in the English versions, the authors preferred to immediately emphasize that these people changed camp. Yes, at Akhmat Kadyrov such a definition in the first paragraph: "He was the supreme mufti of the CRI during and after the First Chechen War, but during the Second Chechen War he changed sides and offered his services Russian government, later becoming the president of Chechnya. "And Ramzan Kadyrov is given a shorter definition: "Head of Chechnya and former member movement for the independence of Chechnya.

Arabic is a little different. Ahmad Kadyrov- "the former president of Chechnya within Russia", and Ramzan Kadyrov- "The current president of Chechnya, in the past, was on the side of the Chechen rebels."

Amir ibn al-Khattab(real name - Samer Saleh as-Suwaylem(Arabic ثامر صالح عبد الله السويلم‎‎); April 14, 1969 - March 20, 2002) - field commander, originally from Saudi Arabia, one of the leaders of the armed formations of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the territory Russian Federation in 1995-2002, a supporter of the creation of an Islamic state in Chechnya.

He preached the ideas of Salafiya and the religious holy war (“ghazavat”), the practical implementation of which he was engaged in before Chechnya, participating in hostilities on the side of the Islamists in Afghanistan (1987-1992) and Tajikistan (1993). He was one of the leaders of the Wahhabi organizations "Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade" and "Supreme Military Majlisul Shura of the United Forces of the Mujahideen of the Caucasus."

Biography

As his real name before his death was called Habib Abd al-Rahman(spelling options - Habib Abdul Rahman, Abd al-Rahman, Habib ar-Rahman), after - Samer Saleh as-Suwaylem.

The exact year and place of birth are unknown (according to some reports, they were not known even to himself). The year 1963 is indicated, and, as the most probable, 1969. Born in the city of Arar (Saudi Arabia). According to Newsweek, Khattab is an ethnic Chechen, a representative of the large Jordanian Chechen diaspora. There is also information that he was half Circassian, other sources refute it: “According to a number of testimonies, Khattab has Jordanian citizenship.

Rumors about his Chechen origin and alleged service in the "Circassian Guard" - the personal guard of the King of Jordan, consisting of Chechens and Kabardians, do not correspond to reality. Akhmat Kadyrov when he was the head of the administration of the Chechen Republic, he indicated that Khattab allegedly was in fact a Yemenite Jew who named his first daughter Sarah. (This statement was made by Kadyrov after a personal trip to Jordan, during which he made an unsuccessful attempt to establish contacts with the Jordanian Chechen diaspora.) Referring now to the FSB, then to the GRU, then even to the CIA, he was called either a Jordanian Chechen, or an Arab - when Jordanian, when Saudi, occasionally Yemeni, or even completely enrolled as Pakistanis.

Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev stated that Khattab is a Saudi by nationality, "although for some reason he is called either a Jordanian Chechen, or someone else ...". (According to General Troshev's book, Khattab was born into a "rich Jordanian family of Chechen origin.") The fact that Khattab was from Saudi Arabia was also testified by the American Mujahid Aukei Collins, who fought under him.

In 2001, the Jordanian ambassador to Moscow, Ahmed Ali Mubaydin, stated that Khattab had never been a citizen of Jordan and was not a Jordanian: " never been Jordanian, neither by nationality nor by origin».

It is claimed that his father was the elder of a nomadic Bedouin tribe, whose nomadic territory is located on the border of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, in the sands of the al-Shamakh desert. The same source notes the wealth of his Bedouin family and the fact that Khattab, "apparently, by nature was endowed with a good mind and creative imagination."

In 1987, relatives sent him to study in the USA, in New York. Reliable information about his life in the United States is not available to the general public, the sources that exist are very contradictory: according to one information, he applied to one of the American colleges, was accepted, but did not start classes, some sources indicate that he still studied until the end of 1987, but it is not clear whether he was already in college or somewhere else. He did not want to return home, citing the right to participate in the ghazawat in accordance with Sharia, despite the prohibition of relatives.

In the same 1987 he went to Afghanistan, where he took an active part in the hostilities against the Soviet troops. He distinguished himself in the battles for Jalalabad and Kabul. He was seriously wounded in the stomach by a 12.7 mm bullet. He lost several fingers on his hand in a grenade explosion.

In the early 90s, the Azerbaijani government turned to the Afghan Mujahideen with a request for help - the troops were defeated in battles with Armenian formations in Nagorno-Karabakh. One of those who responded to the call was Khattab.

In 1993, after the Mujahideen coalition came to power in Afghanistan, he returned home, but soon again (in 1994) returned to Afghanistan, where, with a group of associates, he trained and armed Islamic opposition from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. “Khattab in Tajikistan showed his commanding skills by organizing a series of attacks on Russian border guard outposts” (Washington Profile, 27.06.2002). He participated in the attack on the 12th outpost of the Moscow border detachment, as a result of which 25 Russian border guards were killed. Contrary to the assertion of some sources, Khattab was not the organizer of this attack, but only led one of the detachments participating in it.

In Chechnya

In December 1994, from a CNN report, he learned about the war in Chechnya: “Khattab told how he saw a story about events in Chechnya on television. “I realized that Jihad is going on in Chechnya and I am obliged to take part in it,” after which, using the ties that had developed with the Chechens back in Nagorno-Karabakh, already in January 1995, together with 18 accomplices (including Abu al-Walid al- Ghamidi and Abu-Kuteib) arrived in Grozny, took an active part in the First Chechen War, organized a number of successful operations against Russian troops.

Hero of Russia, Colonel-General Gennady Troshev wrote about him in his memoirs: “Khattab was called one-armed not by chance. On all his fingers right hand missing one or two phalanges. But he also shoots skillfully with his left hand. Love for weapons, apparently, is a family disease. The terrorist's sister, for example, owns a large gun shop in the United States. However, it is unlikely that you will be able to visit Khattaba's sister, because Western intelligence agencies for many years they have been hunting for him: “Height is 174-176 cm, youthful appearance, swarthy, wears a beard, hair long to the shoulders ...“.

He was an experienced and well-trained terrorist, owned all types of small arms. Understood in mine-subversive business. He personally trained suicide bombers subordinate to him.

He organized foreign financing for the purchase of ammunition and the arrangement of camps for the training of militants in Chechnya.

In 1995, together with members of his detachment, he founded the military-religious training center "Kavkaz" on the outskirts of the village of Serzhen-Yurt (on the territory of a former pioneer camp). In the camp, young people from nearby villages were taught Islam and different aspects military business. In total, about 10 thousand militants were trained in this training center. According to Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev: "I created the Khattab training camp at the end of the first war through the General Staff headed by Maskhadov."

According to media reports, in the summer of 1996 he was preparing the liquidation or, if possible, the abduction of the pro-Russian head of the Chechen Republic Doku Zavgaeva.

Maskhadov said: Khattab in our understanding - a volunteer. Somewhere in 1995, he ended up on the territory of Chechnya, fought, did not stand out in any way. When the war ended, he pretended to be a lamb - he did not interfere in any politics, he has nothing to do with everything that happens here. But he says: because he fought in Chechnya, he cannot return to his home. How to say to a person who fought, helped us: “That's it. Get out of here, we don't need you anymore?'"

In 1998, he joined the terrorist organization Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan (KNID) and headed the Islamic Peacekeeping Brigade (an armed formation of the KNID).

In August and September 1999, together with Shamil Basayev, he organized and led raids by Chechen-Dagestan militants on the territory of Dagestan.

“Until now, I have only fought against the army. Never fought against civilians. But after the events in Dagestan, not only the Russian soldier, but the entire Russian people will be responsible for their actions. Emir al-Khattab Czech journalists. - I came here at the call of my own heart and on the duty of a faithful Muslim, since the Koran openly speaks of the duty of a Muslim to participate in the struggle for the establishment of Islam ... I want to appeal to everyone who thinks that the Chechen war is over. They are deeply mistaken. Both the past and recent history of the Muslim highlanders knows many examples when the infidels asked for a long-term truce, and then violated it.

It was Khattab who was the link between the militants in Chechnya and international terrorist structures.

The Washington Post wrote in late 2001: "A Western diplomat who has been watching events in Chechnya said that the Russians want Maskhadov isolated and liquidated the Islamic part of the Chechen resistance, whose leaders are a mysterious militant from Jordan named Khattab and Chechen Shamil Basaev.

Khattab has received funds from Muslim charities in wealthy oil-producing countries for many years. However, it is unknown if Maskhadov is willing and able to fight the Islamic forces. According to the diplomat, at least 60% of the guerrilla forces belong to the Muslim group.”

They note that the defeat of the Taliban, inflicted on them by the forces of the Northern Alliance with the support of the United States, greatly influenced emotional condition Khattaba. Generally doom Khattaba preceded by a confusing story with his alleged intention to go to Afghanistan. It is noted that if he made these statements, it could be an attempt to confuse the Russian forces. On the other hand, there are claims that these statements were inspired Russian forces for the purpose of linking Khattaba With Osama bin Laden.

At the end of 2001, in Paris, Vladimir Rushailo told reporters: "We received reliable information about Khattab's negotiations with his field commanders that his plans include an appearance in Afghanistan in the near future," he also quoted the words Khattaba that he intends to "kill fat Americans" in Afghanistan.

« Khattab- A disciplined warrior. Mujahideen of the world scale and generally a wonderful guy ... Khattab does not show unnecessary independence. Like Basayev, [he] is the commander of a large group of units,” Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev spoke of him in late 2001.

First information about death Khattaba appeared in the press on April 11, 2002: “This can be said with a high degree of certainty, since in the last two Khattab did not show himself in any way: he did not get in touch, the actions of militants in the area controlled by Khattab are not coordinated. The probability of his death is also confirmed by the data of our informants,” one of the FSB officers who took part in the special operation said anonymously, he also said that “an agent from among the Arabs fighting in Chechnya, previously recruited by the special service of one of states of the CIS. Previously, reports of his death appeared in the media at least ten times.

Representatives of the FSB officially announced the "final" liquidation of Khattab on April 25, 2002: Head of the Department of Assistance Programs of the Federal Security Service Alexander Zdanovich said that Khattab was killed as a result of an "undercover-combat operation", the same news was confirmed by presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov. It was stated that 100% evidence of the liquidation had been received, and would be shown to the general public even before the May holidays, the pause was explained by the need to "get the people involved in the operation out of the possible impact."

liquidation Khattaba compared in value with the liquidation on April 21, 1996 Dzhokhar Dudayev, this is “the biggest success of the federal forces in Chechnya since the capture of Grozny,” wrote the Itogi magazine.

“The most odious, charismatic and, in part, semi-mythical figure in the leadership of the Chechen separatists,” she called Khattaba Vremya Novostey newspaper (04/26/2002), - “During the“ second Chechen campaign ”this man managed to earn all the epithets and“ merits ”possible for the leader of the militants, having long eclipsed in“ popularity ”with the special services and influence among colleagues Aslan Maskhadov».

The Russian court posthumously recognized Khattaba one of the customers of the terrorist attacks in Buynaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk in 1999.

Khattab's involvement

  • July 13, 1993 - an attack on the 12th outpost of the Moscow border detachment on the Tajik-Afghan border.
  • October 1995 - Khattab's detachment attacked a checkpoint of Russian troops near locality Kharachoy.
  • On April 16, 1996, near the Chechen village of Yaryshmardy, the Mujahideen under the command of Khattab defeated the column of the 245th motorized rifle regiment Russian army(Battle at Yaryshmarda).
  • The capture of 28 soldiers of the internal troops of the Russian Federation in the village. Shuan.
  • Together with his detachment, he took part in the storming of Grozny in August 1996 (Operation Jihad).
  • Khattabu they attribute a terrorist act against doctors of the humanitarian mission of the Red Cross on December 17, 1996 in the village of Novye Atagi, when six people were shot by criminals.
  • December 22, 1997 - an attack on the town of the 136th motorized rifle brigade in Buynaksk (Dagestan).
  • August - September 1999 - organization and leadership, together with Shamil Basaev, of incursions of militants into Dagestan with the aim of armed support for local Islamic radicals. During the hostilities in Dagestan, there were explosions of residential buildings in Buynaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk, the customer of which, as the court established, was Khattab.
  • In March 2000, he led the breakthrough of militants from the "cauldron" in the Argun Gorge. One of the heavy battles took place on February 29 - March 1 near the village of Ulus-Kert, where militants led by Khattab were able to break through the encirclement, meeting on the way the 6th company of paratroopers of the Pskov Airborne Division (see Battle at Hill 776). According to federal forces, up to 2,500 militants broke through the combat formations of the 6th company, who eventually lost more than 500 people killed.
  • A little later, the division Khattaba and Shamil Basaeva during the battle near the village of Dzhanni-Vedeno, a detachment of the Perm OMON was defeated, more than 40 police officers died, and 11 Perm OMON officers were captured. The Chechen side offered to exchange captured riot police for a colonel Budanov. The Russians refused and then the captured riot police were executed. At the same time, the command of the Mujahideen sentenced Budanov to death without a statute of limitations.

Personality

It is generally noted that he excelled in military skills and knew several languages: "he was a real expert in military affairs, well educated, spoke Pashtun, English and Russian." According to numerous testimonies, he limped on his left leg. They noted his passion for video filming.

Personal life

It is pointed out that Shamil Basayev's father Salman “granted Khattab his house in Dyshne-Vedeno and called him his son. So Shamil, in that period, unwittingly for himself, became the named brother of Khattab.

In 1996, he married a Dargin woman from the Kadar zone of Dagestan Fatima Bidagova, the daughters of a mukhtar - the elders of the Dargin village of Karamakhi.

Believe me, Dirham (money) is occupied by worshipers. Worshiping the West, this world, with work, and salary. But everything with Allah is better.

This false worship has resulted in generation after generation passing through the dead life of a routine that is akin to the life of an animal. They get up in the morning for breakfast, then they go to work, then to lunch, then home, then they go to bed... And life has no purpose.

Believe me, O Saleh, the meaning of their life was to obtain wealth and prosperity, an attempt to insure against troubles. But the troubles never end. Trouble with work, with wife, with children, with accommodation, and whenever one trouble is solved, another appears. They solve one trouble after another, and life ends, but the troubles remain.

From the message Khattaba to his son Saleh when he was 3 months old.

The details of the undercover combat operation to eliminate Khattab, which is considered one of the most successful, were not disclosed for 15 years. The source of Rosbalt, who was directly related to the events, told the details.

A Saudi-born Amir ibn al-Khattab (real name - Samer Saleh al-Suwaylem) was one of the most cautious field commanders. He hid in the mountains, surrounded by a small group of bodyguards, constantly changed places of lodging for the night, never used satellite or mobile phones. He maintained relations with the outside world, including with curators from Arab countries, through letters. They were passed along a chain of couriers, using caches, until they fell into the hands of one of Khattab's guards. Bodyguards and delivered them to the boss. It was not possible for the special services to trace the entire chain of couriers. In this regard, it was announced that a large reward would be paid for information that would lead to the elimination of Khattab.

This information was “pecked” by one of the couriers, who occasionally received letters for Khattab, and then sent them along the chain. He agreed to cooperate, it remains only to wait for the next message to arrive. In March 2002, a courier reported that a letter had arrived from Saudi Arabia for the field commander. There were literally a day left to “work” with him - then the envelope must be sent to the recipient.

A specialist in poisons was urgently brought from Moscow on a special plane, who processed the letter itself with a special composition with a nerve agent. Moreover, the composition used provided that the poison would begin to act only on the second or third day, and everything would look like death from food poisoning. This was done to bring the courier out of harm's way.

A neatly sealed envelope was given to the messenger, and he set off on a journey through a chain of couriers. The secret services learned about how events developed further, when one of Khattab's personal bodyguards was detained. He said that when the guard brought the envelope, the field commander opened it, read it and immediately burned it in a fire. Outwardly, Khattab did not experience any changes either immediately or the next day. A day later, in the mountains, the militants stumbled upon early spring mushrooms (which looked like morels). Since the food was bad, they collected it, fried it at the stake and ate it. And in the morning Khattab became ill. Moreover, his condition worsened rather quickly, soon foam came out of his mouth, and then he died.

The bodyguards decided that their leader had poisoned himself with mushrooms - among the morels there was a toadstool. They blamed each other for what had happened, and for the time being they did not even guess that Khattab was liquidated by special services.

The bandits understood this only a few days later, when the same signs of poisoning appeared first among the bodyguards who received the letter, and then among the couriers. All of them also died. In total, five people who came into contact with the message died, including a secret service informant. The poison with which the letter was treated seeped through the walls of the envelope and entered the organisms of the couriers. The concentration was less than that received by Khattab, but it was enough for a fatal outcome.

German Alexandrov

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