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BACKGROUND:Doku Umarov was born in 1964 in the village of Kharsenoy of the mountainous South-Eastern Chechen Shatoy district.

Profile: Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov - BBC News

He comes from the Mulkkhoy teyp (clan) and is an adherent of Sufi Islam, the Qadiriyya brotherhood of sheik Kunta-Haji. A graduate of the Oil Institute in Grozny, he was involved in business in western Siberia until 1994. During the first Russo-Chechen War (1994-1996), Umarov took an active part in resistance activities in Ruslan Gelayev’s division.

In 1998 he supported Aslan Maskhadov in armed clashes with jihadist units. He is generally known for his sceptical or even negative stance towards so-called global jihad.

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During the interwar period (1996-1999), rumours surfaced in Chechnya about Umarov’s participation in kidnappings; according to other sources, he provided protection to some related kidnappers. For this, he was allegedly fired by Maskhadov from the post of Chief of the Security Council of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria before the 1999 Russian i Doku Umarov | Chechen Separatist, Guerrilla Leader ...

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