1. Akhmed Chatayev, Ahmad Shishani was a Chechen militant and Islamic State leader who is thought to have been the planner of the 2016 Istanbul airport attack and was one of the Chechen mujahideen in Syria.
12 Facts About Akhmed Chatayev
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Akhmed Chatayev was killed in a shootout with Georgian security forces in Tbilisi on 22 November 2017.
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Akhmed Chatayev participated in the Second Chechen War and lost his arm in battle.
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Akhmed Chatayev then fled Russia in 2001 to Austria where he was granted refugee status in 2003.
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On 19 May 2011, Akhmed Chatayev was detained at the Bulgarian-Turkish border.
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Akhmed Chatayev appeared in an ISIS video in 2012 alongside Abu Jihad in Syria and was the commander of the Yarmouk Battalion.
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Akhmed Chatayev is thought to have planned the 2016 Istanbul airport attack, which killed 44 people.
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In October 2015, Akhmed Chatayev was designated as a foreign terrorist by the United Nations Security Council and the US Department of the Treasury and thus subject to sanctions.
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Akhmed Chatayev is the organizer and mastermind of planned IS terrorist acts against Russian diplomatic missions abroad.
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In November 2017, the Georgian State Security Service said Akhmed Chatayev was likely to have been killed in a 20-hour counter-terrorism operation in Tbilisi on 22 November which killed one Georgian special forces serviceman and three members of an armed terrorist group.
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The security officials later confirmed that Akhmed Chatayev was killed in the shootout when he blew himself up.
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Akhmed Chatayev's body was identified by DNA and fingerprint analysis.