Talk:Ibn al-Khattab

message: Khattab never said he's member of al-Queda or ever bombed civilians - al-Qaeda members do, proudly (see al-Zarqawi's network of al-Qaeda in Iraq or al-Qaeda in Europe cells for example), and of course take responsiblity for every attack. There's no al-Qaeda in Caucaus.
Also, filmed were executions (of a contract soldiers), not "torture".
Basaev is a terrorist, because he personally commited or claimed responibility for several acts, including mass hostage takings and more recently suicide bombings of a non-military targets. (Still, to this day he didn't for the 1999 Moscow bombings.)
Please don't vandalise this page.
--Kocoum
:Sorry to say but there are quite a lot of references (including non-Russian ones) confirming about al-Queda realtions with Chechen Terrorists and Khattab . Also please sign your entries.  
:Also remember that Chechens did fight for the Taliban regime against the US forces in Operation Enduring Freedom .  Russian intelligence officials assert that Osama bin Laden donated at least $25 million and dispatched numerous fighters to Chechnya, including Ibn Khattab, a Saudi who led one of the best-trained contingents. The United States now agrees that Khattab had al Qaeda ties, and cited those links when it added three Chechen rebel units to its list of terrorist organizations earlier this year.  --Kuban Cossack 21:14, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, they didn't. There were never found any Chechen fighters dead in alive, even of they captured 9 Russians (including ethnic Russians, and this guy in Nalchik). There was really a guy nicknamed Khattab in Kandahar during the US intervention, but guess what, it's a popular Arab nom de guere. There were also some Europeans, few Americans, and lots of Pakistanis (thousands, mostly then kept for ransom by Afghans or even massacred), but not a single Chechen ever captured, shown dead, or even named. As I said, "even" a small group of Russians (later extradited from Gitmo, and just released(!) by Russia even if they were to be tried). Afghans and later Pakistani government also used to call "Chechens" everyone from the former Soviet Union, especially the IMU members (they were forced to flee Uzbekistan, and then Afghanistan to the Pakistani tribal areas). There was also a Chechen bodyguard to General Dostum of the Afghan Uzbek militia. Same in Iraq, except there's a Chechen disapora living in Iraq, ever since the forced exile in the XIXth century (an Iraqi general from the war on Iran was of a Chechen descent, for example, and a district in Sadr City is called after Chechnya). "Russian intelligence officials" also asserts that Maskhadov was "international terrorist" (and Khattab "Chechen terrorist", wow), among other things. Also don't cite blogs, it's just silly. --Kocoum 15:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree with Kocoum Quirk1 (talk) 08:03, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: What "pro-terrorist edits"?

message: This was in the interview with a foreign, journalists after asked of a video of appearent execution of a group of Russians (who got their throats cut - possibly after the gorge ambush). He answered that they weren't "regular" soldiers, but a kontraktniki "mercenaries". 
I think it should be noted no Chechen fighter ever got a prisoner of war treatment in the Russian captivity, too (either executed or treated as criminals to be tried and sentenced, no POW camps etc).
If there's any video of torture of prisoners, I never heard about, much less see any. The most I've seen was standing on the prone drunk man's right hand while disarming him (he was soon shot when he turned out to be unable to walk, collapsing repeatedly even despite being supported by his captors - he looked like an officer, older and fatter than the other captive).
Shooting a wounded POW is a war crime, whether or not he can walk DarthJesus 18:00, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Prisoners

message: He didn't have anything like this in Dagestan '99 TOGETHER with Basayev (and the Dagestanis). The only big numbers were in the Grozny, Khattab had few guys in mountains to prepare and guard a fall-back bases (Basayev was in Grosny, of course). If you see the OMON ambush video, he has a handful of guys, of which only one gets killed (they pick up him after battle, near a Russian truck). In Shatoy, he had 50 or so. In some 2001 video of his base the Russians didn't find to this day (from an interview with a GRU officer), he also has 50 people. 1,500-2,000 was, for example, the force Basayev had in 1996 to defeat 10,000 Russian garrison of Grozny, in a prepared defensive positions and just near the Khankala main base - don't tell me they would had such a serious trouble to kill 90 abandoned and surprised (yes) guys. It's just a propaganda, like how they were hiding the battle at all at first, and then were slowly disclosing the casaulties (and then making dubious movies and even kitschy musicals about it, because of Putin's apparent personal obsession with this episode). And now they invent silly stuff how these thousands-strong wild hordes tried to break out of mountains "to seize a schools on the lowlands". No comment. Btw, Khattab's guys wasn't in much hurry to "break out", as he somehow found some time to film the Russian bodies and even kick them a little. They did it with a Russians' own video camera, with the Russian footage before this (similiar thing happaned with the OMON ambush, where the Russian camera guy even was killed while filming, and he and the commander were killed first - the rest of the ambush is just camera lying on the ground - CNN aired this later). --HanzoHattori 13:05, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a verifiable source for that figure. Either find a verifiable source contradicting this or don't dispute it. Either way, get more familiar with Wikipedia's rules. Moonshiner 04:57, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Russian official numbers are all lies, everybody know this. You know what PUTIN'S ADVISOR Aslambek Aslakhanov recently said? "When I was a Duma member, I instructed my subordinates to count up how many guerrillas had been killed, according to official reports. The figure we obtained was over a million in the course of two-and-a-half years." (Kommersant-Vlast, No. 31, August 7, 2006, p. 14, in Russian)  So, if some retired US generals want to be silly and believe in a fairy tales, it's only their matter and everybody should just laugh at them (and ignore). --HanzoHattori 14:38, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Where are your sources and why are they more trusted? Moonshiner 23:47, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 2,500? funny

message: Hi, this is just to let you know that a mediation case has been started here.  Both users concerned are reminded that although quotes are useful, sources are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to be quoted and referenced.  Any referenced figures should be allowed providing the source is a 'reputable' one.  Usually, both sides' figures are given for relative neutrality so please don't delete another's just because one cannot find an alternative figure for a similar event or time period.  For now, may I recommend the following:
* For Moonshiner, does your figure mention over how long a period is taken into account?  (e.g. is that 1500-2500 over the last year, or last 5 years?)
* For HanzoHattori, although the news quote (AFP) above seems reliable, please can you give a reference?  Moreover, any government figures are hard to truly verify but until proven otherwise, will remain a valid source.  In controversial topics, unfortunately, "do you really believe XYZ" is not a very persuasive argument.  Quoting reliable sources for rebuttal (see the relevant WP page for that) and referencing them directly, however, is definitely sufficient.  Regarding your cdi.org site, that is valid, but instead of deleting the 1500-2500 figure given by the Russian government, how about providing the alternative figure next to it?  Jsw663 19:16, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mediation

message: They were lieing on their own casaulties (first 12, then 31 a week later - when they had 80 identified bodies). They were lieing about enemy's as well of course (notice they never presented any proof or anything, just vague AND varying numbers, unrealisticably high as usual). Just like said journalists who uncovered the story (the command tried to hide whole episode) - they completely lost it, trying to deceive the public (that is us), or maybe even their own governement. Totally and absolutelly unreliable. On the other hand, rebels say they killed "about 100" in this battle, and this is true (86 died). And in the OMON ambush (about month later), their story was corresponding in details with what was said by the survivors on CNN later, which also aired secret footage the Russian Interior Ministry previously tried to retrieve in all copies and hide (CNN Perspectives' Forgetten War in 2002). But no, I don't force their version here.
So, "On February 29, 2000, a group of insurgents under the leadership of Khattab attacked a VDV company from Pskov near Ulus-Kert; the resulting battle lasted almost three days, ultimately resulting in 86 of the 90 paratroopers being killed in action." - these are all the undisscutable facts, barred of ANY possible propaganda (rebel too). That's it. --HanzoHattori 20:34, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Casualties

message: Someone removed the passage about Khattab's mother being Adyghe for no apparent reason and tried to repair to sentence but fumbled with his English, I undid his revision, any objections? ForrestSjap 12:08, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Parents

message: This recently added section contains unsupported statements, is obviously biased (refering to Khattab's militia-members as 'his fellow terrorists'), and is, above all else, very poorly written. In my opinion it can be removed altogether, but if it is to remain, it will have to be improved. ForrestSjap 09:11, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notoriety and acts of murder

message: In this article, Khattab's unit is referred to as the 'Islamic Regiment', I have been reading a lot about Khattab and his successors, but I have never found this name anywahere else. There are however two articles in which I have found other names; In this article found on the website of the Central Asia - Caucasus Institute, the name of the unit is mentioned to be the 'Islamic Battalion'. In this article, found on the website of the Jamestown Foundation, the unit is called the 'International Islamic Battalion' or simply the 'IIB' (I am not confusing Khattab's unit with the IIPB). I think the references to the 'Islamic Regiment' should be replaced by references to the 'International Islamic Battalion', I will create an article about the unit shortly. Let me know if you agree or object. ForrestSjap 09:22, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'll take that as a yes. I'm also working on an infobox for the Amirs of the battalion. I just need to get the copyright nonsense for the images sorted out first. Can anybody around here help me out with an image on the Russian Wikipedia? ForrestSjap 14:36, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

text: I don't know, your Russian is better than mine I suppose, I think this picture would look better in the infobox. It's indeed al-Suweilim, not Al-Suweilim, 'al' means nothing more the 'the'. I see you have added a military person infobox to the article, as I've already told I have already made one, but I was still working on obtaining the copyright licenses of some images. I have created a somewhat customized person infobox, because I don't think the military infobox contains enough info. This is what it would look like (I used al-Walid as example, image is still absent, Islamic Regiment will be changed to International Islamic Battalion). Let me know what you think about it! ForrestSjap 11:42, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The name of Khattab's unit

message: I have seen the fragment that's included to support the claim that Khattab has been in Bosnia. It appears to be genuine. It did not mention anything about Kosovo though. I will rewrite the section about Khattab's involvement in the Bosnian War and remove all references of his being involved in the Kosovo War. Let me know if you disagree.ForrestSjap (talk) 10:30, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bosnia and Kosovo

message: Any source that his mother was an adygea? He looks pretty Arab to me. - PietervHuis (talk) 15:34, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't give you one at the moment but I'm pretty sure it's true. I'll look into it though. I'll reply here if I find something.ForrestSjap (talk) 15:47, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Khattab half Adyghea

message: Hey Pieter, I think you should restore the info about the 1997 Buinaksk raid. The source may not cite anything about the raid but the raid did occur. In fact, Khattab's first deputy, Abu Bakr Aqeedah, was killed in this raid. ForrestSjap (talk) 15:40, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Buinaksk raid

message: In all the sources I've seen, including all academic ones, his name is spelled Al-Khattab, and never Al Khattab. Let's keep the correct and widespread spelling, please. Nanobear (talk) 19:11, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Al-Khattab or Al Khattab 

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message: Islamist POV sources need to be cross checked and referenced by neutral western POV sources.
 
http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?78647-Shaheed-Amir-Khattab-Flash-Tribute http://www.ummah.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-63449.html
https://www.facebook.com/FansOfShiekhKhalidYasin/videos/852848284775660
https://ar.scribd.com/document/287826161/Ibn-K
http://sayfulislaam.blogspot.com/2004_12_26_archive.html
http://www.islamicboard.com/islamic-history-and-biographies/24418-khattab-mujahedeen-commander.html
http://www.ummah.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-78647.html
http://www.ummah.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-5383.html
http://salafismusinfacebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/ubersicht-fur-76j4725235b235b891248jv1g_1024.html
http://islamismus-islamisten-salafisten.blogspot.com/2013/12/your-8-hourly-digest-for-salafismus-in_958.html
http://islamisten-salafisten.blogspot.com/2013/12/your-8-hourly-digest-for-salafismus-in_567.html
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message: Some sources say he was born in Jordan as Habib Abd al-Rakhman Ibn al-Khattab in 1963. What is correct?https://jamestown.org/program/u-s-paper-gets-videotape-linking-khattab-and-bin-laden/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:6000:1526:450B:D9DC:3F9A:A0B4:6079 (talk) 06:10, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth date/place 

message: I request a change for article name to Amir Khattab  Quirk1 (talk) 08:02, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  His name is Amir Khattab not ibn al-Khattab