Shamil Basayev
| Abdallah Shamil Abu Idris Al-Bassi | |
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Shamil Basayev during the First Chechen War, December 1995.
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| Nickname(s) | Abdallah Shamil Abu-Idris |
| Born |
14 January 1965 Dyshne-Vedeno, Chechen–Ingush ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 10 July 2006 (aged 41) Ekazhevo, Ingushetia, Russian Federation |
| Allegiance |
 Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
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| Commands held |
Islamic Peacekeeping Brigade Caucasian Front Riyadus-Salihiin Supreme Military Majlis-ul Shura of the United Mujahideen Forces of the Caucasus Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan |
| Battles/wars |
Georgian-Abkhazian conflict Nagorno-Karabakh War First Chechen War Dagestan War Second Chechen War |
Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (Chechen: Шамиль Басаев, Russian: Шамиль Салманович Басаев; 14 January 1965 – 10 July 2006) was a Chechen militant Islamist and a leader of the Chechen movement.
Starting as a field commander in the Transcaucasus, Basayev led guerrilla campaigns against Russian forces for years, as well as launching mass-hostage takings of civilians, with his goal being the withdrawal of Russian soldiers from Chechnya. Beginning in 2003, Basayev used the nom de guerre and title of Emir Abdallah Shamil Abu-Idris. In 1997–1998 he also served as vice-Prime minister of Chechnya in Maskhadov's government.
Basayev was considered by some to be the undisputed leader of the radical wing of the Chechen insurgency. He was responsible for numerous guerrilla attacks on security forces in and around Chechnya and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis. ABC News described him as "one of the most-wanted terrorists in the world."
Basayev was killed by an explosion on 10 July 2006. Controversy still surrounds who is responsible for his death, with Russian authorities claiming he was killed in an assassination by the FSB and the Chechen separatists claiming he died in an accidental explosion.
Shamil Basayev was born in the village of Dyshne-Vedeno, near Vedeno, in south-eastern Chechnya, in 1965 to Chechen parents from the Benoy teip. According to Gennady Troshev, he has some distant Russian ancestry. He was named after Imam Shamil, the third imam of Dagestan and Chechnya and the last leader of anti-Russian Avar-Chechen forces in the Caucasian War.
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