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Magomed Vagabov
, also known as
Emir Seyfullah
or
Seyfullah Gubdensky
, was the leader of the militant
Vilayat Dagestan
organisation in the
Russian
Republic of
Dagestan
, and the Supreme
Qadi
of the
Caucasus Emirate
.
[1]
Biography
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An ethnic
Dargin
, Vagabov was born in the Dagestani village of
Gubden
. In 1990, he took part in rallies, led by the
Salafist
Sheikh Muhammad Bagauddin, for Soviet Muslims to be allowed to make the
Hajj
pilgrimage. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a group of Arabs in the Islamic
missionary
organisation
Tablighi Jamaat
visited his native village in 1992. Vagabov, who spoke Arabic, served as their interpreter, and travelled with them around Dagestan.
[2]
In 1994 the 19-year-old Vagabov went for religious instruction in
Pakistan
,
[3]
where he memorized the
Koran
. He moved on to
Karachi
, where he studied
Shariah
and learnt
Farsi
and
Urdu
.
[4]
In 1997 he returned to Dagestan and open a
mosque
in Gubden. In the same year he reportedly travelled to
Chechnya
and attended a training camp ran by the Arab field commander Khattab.
[2]
He returned to Dagestan, and took part in militant activities before he turned himself into the authorities in 2001 during an
amnesty
. He would return to militancy and work his way up the ranks of
Shariat Jamaat
. In mid-July 2010,
Dokku Umarov
appointed Vagabov as both the
emir
of
Vilayat Dagestan
and the
Qadi
of the
Caucasus Emirate
Sharia
court, filling the positions previously held by the late
Umalat Magomedov
and
Anzor Astemirov
respectively.
[5]
In 2010 he took part in organizing the
2010 Moscow Metro bombings
, killing 40 people and wounding more than 100. It was reported that one of the
suicide bombers
, Mariam Sharipova, was his wife, although her father denied this.
[6]
Vagabov and 4 other militants were killed during a raid by the
FSB
in the village of Gunib in August 2010.
[6]
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