Ilyas Gorchkhanov

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Ilyas Gorchkhanov also spelled Ilias Gorchkhanov was the first leader of the Ingush Jamaat, which later became part of the Caucasus Front's Ingushetian Sector in the Russian-held Caucasian Muslim state Ingushetia of the Second Chechen War. He was one of the commanders of the 2005 Nalchik raid in which he was killed.

[edit] Biography

Gorchkhanov was an ethnic Ingush and allegedly started his military career as a volunteer fighting in Chechnya.^[1]. When the Ingush Jamaat started getting shape, he became the leader of the Nazran unit and was later often cited as the leader of the entire Jamaat.^[2] He was closely associated with the Yarmuk Jamaat in Kabardino-Balkaria and, together with Anzor Astemirov was the one of the first persons wanting to realize the Caucasus Emirate during the Chechen Wars.^[3]

[edit] Death

In October 2005 he was one of the commanders of the 2005 Nalchik raid, a raid by a large group of militants on Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria and was killed during the battle.^[4]. Some media dubbed him as the number one leader of the raid.^[5] He was succeeded by Akhmed Yevloyev.^[6]

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