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Shamilor Shamyl(born 1797?, Gimry, Dagestan—died March 1871, Medina?, Arabia) Leader of Muslim Dagestan and Chechen mountaineers. In 1830 he joined a Sufi sect that had become involved in a holy war against the Russians for Dagestan, formerly part of northern Iran but occupied by the Russians from 1813. He eventually became imam of Dagestan and established an independent republic (1834), then led successive raids against the Russians in the Caucasus for 25 years. Determined to suppress him, the Russians attacked from all sides, compelling his surrender in 1859 and effectively ending Caucasian resistance to Russian subjugation. |
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In 2004 schoolchildren were massacred in a horrifying murder scene in Russia which shook the world and was led by one Shamil Basayev, leader of the terrorist Wolves. Even Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov condemned the Islamic radical Chechen warlord, Shamil Basayev, for masterminding this tragedy. We know that Shamil Basayev, the so-called Chechen warlord, gets assistance on the ground from an itinerant guerrilla leader with a dossier similar to that of Osama bin Laden. |
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