Amir Khattab orignally from Sucuudi Arabia is a man to be rememberd, he was born in 1969 and died in March 20,2002. He dedicated his life to this Ummah and fought for it against the kuffar. At the age of sixteen he participated in the jihad in Afghanistan against the atheist Soviet union aggressors he lost several fingers there after a mishap with an IED. He then was made aware of the Russians invaders attacking Chechnya and persecuting the muslims there on TV. Disguised as a reporter he then started a resistance movement against them with the muslims local. His units were credited with several devastating ambushes on Russian columns in the Chechen mountains. His first action was the October 1995 ambush of a Russian convoy which killed 3 soldiers. Amir Khattab gained momentum and a great notoriety in Russia for his April 1996 ambush of a large armored column in a narrow gorge of Yaryshmardy, near Shatoy, which killed up to 220 soldiers and destroyed some two or three dozen vehicles. After the conclusion of the war, Khattab, by then wanted by Interpol on Russia's request, became a prominent warlord and commanded the Mujahideen in Chechnya, his own private army with a group of Arabs, Turks and other foreign fighters who had come to participate in the war. He set up a network of paramilitary camps in the mountainous parts of the republic that trained not only Chechens, but also Muslims from the North Caucasian Russian republics and Central Asia.
The same year, Khattab survived a land-mine assassination attempt in Chechnya. In 1998, along with Shamil Basayev, Khattab created the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (IIPB) group (also known as the Islamic Peacekeeping Army). In August-September 1999, they led the IIPB's incursions into Dagestan, which resulted in the deaths of at least several hundred people and effectively started the Second Chechen War.
During the course of the war, Khattab participated in leading his militia against Russian forces in Chechnya.
Khattab later survived a heavy-calibre bullet wound to the stomach and a landmine explosion. He was killed during the night of March 19-20, 2002, when a Dagestani messenger hired by the Russian FSB gave Khattab a poisoned letter. Chechen sources said that the letter was coated with "a fast-acting nerve agent, possibly sarin or a derivative".
May Allah accept him a legend of our time.
