The spiritual department of Muslims Chechnya believes that the leader of the militants will remain Basaev

To manage illegal armed groups (NVF) after the destruction of Aslan Maskhadov in Chechnya will be the international terrorist Shamil Basayev, regardless of who will be called the successor of the destroyed A. Mashadov, emphasize the spiritual administration of the Muslims of the Chechen Republic (Duma of the Chechen Republic).

“Who would, who would be called by the successor of A. Maskhadov, will still be the supremacy over the NVF will be in the hands of S. Basayev - as it was with the living A. Maskhadov,” the representative of the Duma of the Chechen Republic told the Interfax agency.

Commenting on media reports that the NVF leaders allegedly chose the successor of A. Maskhadov a certain Ahmad Fayruz Sheikh Abdulkhalim (according to other sources, his name is Abdul-Khalim Saydullaev), in the Duma of the Chechen Republic noted that "before the beginning of hostilities, he was not a noticeable figure in Ichkeria, and nothing was heard about him for all the years counter -terrorist operation in the Chechen Republic. "

According to the information available in the thoughts of information, Abdulkhalim was born and raised in the Chechen city of Argun and is not a native or resident of Saudi Arabia. He received a religious education at home, and also studied in one of the Central Asian republics. He speaks Arabic well.

In the Duma of the Chechen Republic, it is noted that before the beginning of hostilities in Chechnya Abdulkhalim was one of the main ideologists in the camp of Sh. Basayev, Movladi Udugov and others. He is also close to the former chairman of the Supreme Sharia Court of Chechnya Shamsudin Batukaev (a native of the village of Prigorodnoye, Grozny district). At the same time, Abdulkhalim himself was never not only the chairman of the Sharia Court of Ichkeria, but was not even a member of this court.

At the same time, as the interlocutor of the agency in the Duma of the Chechen Republic said, "perhaps the militants made Abdulkhalim by their forest sharia judge, who was the court over those whom the militants were going to destroy in their ranks or from among peaceful citizens."

Some observers in Chechnya believe that the NVF leaders can retroactively decide the decision of some of their Shariah court or another body that Abdulkhalim was allegedly elevated to the rank of vice president during the life of A. Mashadov in order to try to furnish him the functions of the destroyed "president of Ichkeria".

According to some media reports, Sh. Basayev called on the Muslims of Chechnya, the Caucasus and Russia to take the oath of loyalty to the "new president of Ichkeria" to a certain Sheikh Abdul Halim. The same media say that the ethnic Chechen Abdul Halim was the leader of the Wahhabi underground and intended to destroy Maskhadov in order to take his place in the summer of 2003.