Dokku Umarov appoints new leader of Dagestani armed underground

The commander of North-Caucasian militants Dokku Umarov has appointed Ibragimkhalil Daudov (Amir Salikh) to be the new head of Dagestani underground.

Let us remind you that at night on April 18 on the highway Tashkapur-Khadzhadmakhi in the Levashin District of Dagestan security agents and law enforcers killed four suspected militants; one of them was Israpil Validzhanov, 42, also known as Amir Hassan. He headed Dagestani militants from August 2010 after the death of Magomedali Vagabov. 

Earlier Daudov, who is now instead of Validzhanov, was the head of the "central sector of the Dagestan Front," says the statement of Umarov, posted by one of the sites supporting the militants.

Law enforcement bodies had found Ibragimkhalil Daudov responsible for organizing the double terror act committed in Gubden on February 14. He was searched for committing a number of grave and especially grave terror crimes, including murders of law enforcers. Militants of Daudov's grouping were checked for involvement in the terror act at the "Domodedovo" Airport. According to the Department of the Russian FSB for Dagestan, Daudov's wife perished in the explosion on December 31, 2010, in Moscow, when, presumably, an improvised explosive device, prepared for committing terror acts, occasionally blew up.

According to Mairbek Agaev, editor of the information and policy division of the "Chernovik" newspaper, it was known that for more than ten years his family lived in the Stavropol Territory, where there is a numerous Dagestani Diaspora; three years ago they moved to Gubden.