09:20, 16 March 2016

IS refutes death of Abu Umar al-Shishani

Abu Umar al-Shishani (Tarkhan Batirashvili), one of the leaders of the terrorist IS, banned in Russia. Photo: Ansar al Jihad https://ru.wikipedia.org

The organization "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia, has reported that Abu Umar al-Shishani (Tarkhan Batirashvili) alive.

The "Caucasian Knot" has informed that on March 4, the Pentagon reported on an air attack carried out on March 4 in the Syrian province of al-Hasakah to kill Abu Umar al-Shishani. On March 13, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that Abu Umar al-Shishani had been in a state of clinical death for several days already. On March 15 the official spokesperson of the US Department of Defence said that Umar al-Shishani, a native of Georgia and one of the IS leaders, died from his wounds received in an airstrike inflicted on March 4 near the city of Al Shadadi in northeast Syria.

Tarkhan Batirashvili, one of the leaders of the terrorist IS, banned in Russia, was born in 1986 in the Pankisi Gorge. His father is a Georgian, and mother is of Kistin nationality (a Georgian Chechen).

The IS' statement refuting the data on the death of Umar al-Shishani was reposted by the resource "SITE Intelligence Group", a non-profit organization (NPO), registered in the United States and tracing the activities of terrorist groupings on the Internet.

The message states that Umar Al-Shishani was not only killed, but was not even wounded.

The death of Tarkhan Batirashvili is also unknown in the Pankisi Gorge, where he was born and had grown up. According to unconfirmed data, Batirashvili's relatives contacted his retinue in Syria, who refuted the information about the death of the field commander, the "Echo of the Caucasus" reported on March 15, citing its source from the village of Duisi.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.