Said Buryatsky was an Islamist militant leader in the Russian North Caucasus.
10 Facts About Said Buryatsky
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Said Buryatsky was known in the region as a Russian counterpart of Osama bin Laden.
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Said Buryatsky had been identified in YouTube videos, wearing camouflage while preaching radical Islam with an assault rifle.
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Said Buryatsky, whose birth name was Alexander Alexandrovitch Tikhomirov, was born February 10,1982, in Ulan-Ude, the capital of Buryatia.
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Said Buryatsky's father was a Buryat, and his mother was a Russian.
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Said Buryatsky moved to the North Caucasus in late 2007 or early 2008, where he became an important ideologue of the Caucasus Emirate.
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Said Buryatsky criticized Sufi Muslims, critics of the Emirate, and spoke out against the commanders who disagreed with Dokka Umarov.
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Said Buryatsky was reportedly responsible for the reactivation of the Riyadus-Salikhin shahid brigade of suicide bombers originally formed by Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev.
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Said Buryatsky was being investigated for involvement with the 2009 Nevsky Express bombing, leaving 28 dead and 90 wounded; however, he was never brought to trial.
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On March 2,2010, Said Buryatsky was killed in the village of Ekazhevo in Ingushetia, during a Russian military operation involving units of the Federal Security Service and the Russian Interior Ministry.