Abu Hafs al - Urduni Abu Hafs al - Urduni ( ابو حفص الاردني ) ( born Jordan , 1973 , died November 26 , 2006 ) , also transliterated as Abu Hafs al - Urdani was a Mujahid Emir ( commander ) fighting in Chechnya . After Abu al - Walid < nowiki > ’ s < / nowiki > death in April 2004 , he assumed command of the Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya . He was killed in Dagestan on November 26 , 2006 . Biography . Early life . Most of whatever little is known about al - Urduni , is known through the Russian media . It is however fairly certain that his given name is Farid Yusef Umeira , that he was born in Jordan and that he participated in the Afghan - Soviet war and the Tajik civil war along with Khattab and al - Walid . With the latter two he came to Chechnya in 1995 where he would remain until his death . He would also marry two Chechen women . Chechen Wars . In the First and Second Chechen War he fought in the battalion of Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya under Khattab and , after Khattab ’ s death , as al - Walid ’ s deputy . After al - Walid ’ s death in 2004 , al - Urduni succeeded him as Amir of the battalion and issued a video statement about al - Walid ’ s death , much the same way as al - Walid had done with his own predecessor , Khattab . As commander of the Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya , al - Urduni faced increasingly harsh conditions for himself and his unit of foreign fighters . Apart from the loss of their most prominent commanders and the relentless hunt for separatists by the Russian Federal Forces , funding for the battalion had also become a major problem due to anti - terrorism measures restricting financial transactions . Abu Hafs orchestrated and launched the 2004 Avtury raid and the 2006 Avtury ambush on Russian forces in Avtury , Chechnya . Videos were made of the ambsuhes and now circulate the internet . Alleged links to al - Qaeda . The name of Abu Hafs al - Urduni is often mentioned in connection with al - Qaeda . Russian intelligence sources and media have repeatedly accused him of being al - Qaeda ’ s emissary in the Caucasus . His name is also found in a presentation of Colin Powell , then U . S . Secretary of State at the Security Council in February 2003 just before the Iraq War , where al - Urduni was stated to be part of a supposed international network headed by Abu Musab al - Zarqawi . In an interview with Kavkaz Center , al - Urduni once expressed his sympathy with al - Qaeda and Osama bin - Laden , although he did not admit to being part of the organization . On a different occasion he condemned the Beslan hostage crisis and denied personal involvement . Whether or not he was an agent of al - Qaeda or if there are , or have been , any formal ties between the Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya and al - Qaeda remains unclear . Death . November 26 , 2006 , Abu Hafs al - Urduni was killed in a gunfight with Russian special forces in Khasav - Yurt , Dagestan . Russian sources claim the fire fight lasted for four hours , and that four other rebels were killed in the encounter . KavkazCenter later confirmed al - Urduni ’ s death , but claims only two other rebels were killed in the fighting . December 9 , 2006 , Qoqaz News , the Chechen Mujahideen online news agency , reported that Muhannad had succeeded al - Urduni as commander of the Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya . < br >