Akhmed Yevloyev

Akhmed Yevloyev

Infobox Military Person
name=Akhmed Yevloyev
( _ru. Ахмед Евлоев)
placeofbirth=Grozny, Chechnya


caption=
nickname=Magas
allegiance= Caucasus Emirate
Ingush Jamaat
battles=Second Chechen War

Akhmed Yevloyev ( _ru. Ахмед Евлоев) (b. 1974 [ [http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2007/07/1-RUS/rus-230707.asp?po=y CHECHEN REPUBLIC ICHKERIA PRESIDENT NAMES NEW MILITARY COMMANDERS] ] ) also known as Magomet Yevloyev and Amir Magas is the leader of the Ingushetia-based Ingush Jamaat since 2006. On September 30 2006 Yevloyev was appointed to commander of the Caucasian Front by the orders of Dokka Umarov. In July 2007, one year after Shamil Basayev’s death, Yevloyev became his official successor.

Biography

Life

Yevloyev is an Ingush who was raised in Grozny, Chechnya and was a sub-commander under Shamil Basayev in the Second Chechen War before Basayev assigned him to use family and clan ties to begin raisingarmed units in Ingushetia. [ [http://www.jamestown.org/docs/McGregor-14Sep06.pdf Military Jama'ats in the North Caucasus: A Continuing Threat] ]

Yevloyev was among the commanders of the June 2004 Nazran raid in which simultaneous nationwide raids on police stations killed over 70 security personnel. According to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Yevloyev personally killed Abubakar Kostoyev, the then acting Interior Minister of Ingushetia, in the capital Nazran.

He was listed by Russia as one of the dead terrorists of the 2004 Beslan hostage crisis, as the person who led the negotiations on behalf of the hostage takers under the name Ali Taziyev, whose body was identified after he was killed during the storming of the school. Those reports were proved incorrect two years later, when he was declared wanted by Russia for the assassination of a high-ranking police official, Dzhabrail Kostoyev in May 2006. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4988748.stm South Russia blast kills minister ] ] [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/may/22/russia.tomparfitt Beslan militant 'lived to kill again'] ] Although the negotiator of the siege known as Ali had similar features as Yevloyev, his facial profile was a lot different.

According to FSB information, Ali Taziyev was an Ingush policeman who disappeared without a trace in 1998 and was declared legally dead in 2000, but instead might have joined forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI). Investigators often linked Taziyev with Yevloyev, as well as with the negotiator of the Beslan siege, but it's unknown if either of them is actually Taziyev. [ [http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=505415 The Investigation is Hitting it on the Head] ]

After the death of Ilyas Gorchkhanov during the 2005 Nalchik raid, Yevloyev was the next in line to assume leadership of the Ingush Jamaat. In 2006, he was reported as being killed by the FSB operation that allegedly killed Shamil Basayev. Those initial reports were declared incorrect later. [http://kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?docsid=689415 Shamil Basayev will be identified by hands and feet, Kommersant, July 12, 2006.] ]

Military leader of the Caucasian Front

A month after Basayev's death Yevloyev was appointed military leader of the Caucasian Front by then President of Ichkeria Dokka Umarov. [ [http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/09/30/5768.shtml New Changes in Chechen Military Command] ] At the same time Yevloyev still holds leadership of the Ingush Jamaat. [ [http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/11/04/6258.shtml Amir Magas: 'This is War Between Islam and kufr'] ] On July 19, 2007, Yevloyev was named the Military Amir of the ChRI Armed Forces by Umarov. [ [http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2007/08/07/8721.shtml Magas: Shamil Basayev's Ingush successor] ] His deputies were announced to be first deputy Muhannad, second deputy Tarhan Gaziev and third deputy Aslambek Vaduyev. On October 31, 2007, Umarov proclaimed the Caucasus Emirate and it's assumed he is now the Military Amir of the Caucasus Emirate, of which the Caucasian Front is still its military branch.

References

External links

* [http://jamestown.org/chechnya_weekly/article.php?articleid=2373596 Magas: Shamil Basaev’s Ingush Successor] The Jamestown Foundation


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