Muslim Abu Walid al Shishani

Murat Akhmetovich Margoshvili
Born26 May 1972 (1972-05-26)[1]
Duisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union[1]
(now Georgia)
Allegiance
Battles / warsFirst Chechen War
Second Chechen War
Syrian Civil War[4]

Murat Akhmetovich Margoshvili,[1] also known by his nom de guerre Muslim Abu Walid al Shishani (taken from the Saudi fighter Abu al-Walid), was the emir of the defunct Junud al-Sham group in Syria.

Personal life

While al Shishani is a Georgian national, he is also a Kist, a Chechen subethnos living mostly in the Pankisi Gorge.[7]

Chechen wars

He joined Ibn Khattab's group in 1995 and would be promoted to emir of Vedeno a few years later.[8]

He served with Abu al-Walid in Chechnya.[9]

Al Shishani was appointed emir of the Sunzhensky District of Ingushetia on 11 May 2003 at a shura council meeting by Dokka Umarov, Shamil Basayev, Ruslan Gelayev, Vakha Arsanov, Abdul-Malik Mezhidov, and Abu al-Walid. He was in charge of multiple attacks in Ingushetia in 2003; one attack, near Galashki on 30 July, killed five Russian servicemen, while another attack on 7 August, utilizing an RPG-18 and machine guns, near Nesterovskaya, killed six Russian servicemen.[10] The Galashki attack used a remote IED.[11]

He was arrested in 2003 and spent two years in jail in Ingushetia.[12] He was acquitted on all charges by the Supreme Court of Ingushetia in February 2006 and quickly left the courthouse; afterwards the courthouse was "besieged" by agents who his Moscow Bar Association lawyer suspected to be part of the Federal Security Service (FSB).[13]

Syrian civil war

He, Abu Musa Shishani and Sayfullakh Shishani merged their groups in October 2013,[8] which came under Muslim Shishani's command.[14]

Al Shishani was sanctioned by the US State Department on 24 September 2014[15] for reportedly building a base for foreign fighters.[16]

Junud al-Sham was mainly active in the Latakia region until 2019 when the group effectively stopped partaking in any active conflicts.[3] Shishani later settled near the Christian village of Al-Yacoubiyah in the Jisr ash-Shughur countryside.

In October 2021 there were clashes in the Turkmen Mountain region between Jundullah, an extremist group in Idlib, and Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, close to where Shishani and his family settled. They were forced to leave the area during the clashes. The clashes between Jundullah and HTS were erroneously reported to include Junud al-Sham as well.[17] (Junud al-Sham had previously dissolved in July).[18] That December, a Russian Airforce Sukhoi Su-24 bombed his residence, killing a bodyguard and their child while failing to kill al Shishani.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Ethnic Kist Murad Margoshvili on the Specially Designated Global Terrorists list". Front News. 25 September 2014. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
  2. ^ Roggio, Bill (24 September 2014). "State Department adds Chechen, Moroccan-led jihadist groups to terrorist list". FDD's Long War Journal. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
  3. ^ a b c "Georgia is our homeland – Exclusive interview with Muslim al-Shishani a.k.a Murad Margoshvili". Georgian Journal. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
  4. ^ a b Souleimanov, Emil (2 July 2014). "Split Among North Caucasian Fighters in Syria". The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
  5. ^ Paraszczuk, Joanna (15 February 2014). "Syria Video: The Death of Chechen Jihadi Sayfullakh in Attack On Aleppo Central Prison". EA WorldView. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
  6. ^ "Chechen al Qaeda commander, popular Saudi cleric, and an Ahrar al Sham leader spotted on front lines in Latakia". Long War Journal. 27 March 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  7. ^ Moore, Cerwyn (27 May 2015). "Foreign Bodies: Transnational Activism, the Insurgency in the North Caucasus and "Beyond"" (PDF). Terrorism and Political Violence. 27 (3): 395–415. doi:10.1080/09546553.2015.1032035. ISSN 0954-6553. S2CID 56451099.
  8. ^ a b Paraszczuk, Joanna (26 March 2014). "Syria: Who is Muslim Abu Walid Shishani? Part One". From Chechnya to Syria. Archived from the original on 31 May 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  9. ^ Paraszczuk, Joanna (4 July 2014). "The Clear Banner: 'Let Him Eat Leaves:' North Caucasians Aligned to Islamic State Slam Caucasus Emirate Emir". Jihadology. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
  10. ^ Paraszczuk, Joanna (4 November 2018). "Muslim Shishani led attacks on Russian troops deploying to Ingushetia in 2003". From Chechnya to Syria. Archived from the original on 9 May 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  11. ^ "Chechen fighters kill five Russians". Al Jazeera English. 30 July 2003. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  12. ^ Paraszczuk, Joanna (8 December 2014). "Germany Reportedly Concerned About Radicalization Of Chechen Diaspora". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
  13. ^ "Attempt to kidnap an acquitted Chechen resident from Ingushetia Supreme Court". Caucasian Knot. 4 February 2006. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  14. ^ Vatchagaev, Mairbek (12 December 2013). "Chechens Among the Syrian Rebels: Small in Number, but Influential". Eurasia Daily Monitor. Archived from the original on 14 June 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  15. ^ Eckel, Mike (26 September 2014). "Behind Islamic State's Battlefield Gains, Battle-Hardened Chechens". Voice of America News. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
  16. ^ "U.S. imposes financial sanctions on Islamist fighters". Reuters. 24 September 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
  17. ^ sh, obaida (27 October 2021). "Muslim Shishani Steps Aside as HTS Concludes Security Operations against Jundullah". levant24. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  18. ^ "HTS and Muslim al-Shishani: What Happened?". Levant24. 9 July 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
  19. ^ "Today #Russia carried out its second ad hominem airstrike in #Idlib since 2015. A Muslim Shishani's guard (& his son) were killed, 3-4 of his children & his wife are wounded. Other casualties are from nearby families". Twitter. Archived from the original on 11 December 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2024.

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