Talk:Shamil Basayev
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Vandalism in Death section
editI doubt he was performing fellatio on a friend as stated in the article.
Official version
edit"According to this official version, a detonator with a remote control hidden in one of the explosives was detonated by FSB agents..." Although some western media claims it is the official version, there were no official version at all , (Exept that he was killed in a special operation). Patruchef (FSB cheef) told in a Brifing, he (or somebody else) is not authorised to tell how Bassajew was killed.
Taking his statement out of context. That is not NPOV. The meaning is more like 'yeah yeah whatever you say I am' meaning the 'Western' definition of terrorism is whoever fights back against them. (This has nothing to do with whether or not he was actually a terrorist, I am not commenting on that).
27 November 2006
Former OMON member?
edit"Basayev had served in the OMON forces in the Soviet times. The Basayev brothers participated, among the Soviet troops, the fighting of the TV tower of Vilnius, against the independence movement of Lithuania. As young hotheads, Shamil and his brother Shirvani Basayev had joined the Russian military intelligence GRU in the Abkhaz War against Georgia, although Georgia was the only state around that favored independent Chechnya. To the first Chechen War, Shamil Basayev went as a more mature nationalist Chechen patriot. Then, however, having acquainted with Khattab, and especially having lost the presidential election to Maskhadov, Basayev started to define himself as an "Islamic Che Guevara", and he announced he was opposed to both "Russian imperialist colonialism" and "nationalism" of the Chechen leaders Dudayev and Maskhadov."
Oh, and Shrivani needs an article too.
Ottoman Empire leaders
editMuch is not known about him but he was a leader with multiple medals 2601:2C6:837F:7F56:87F6:A468:E91B:A7BB (talk) 17:00, 6 July 2025 (UTC)
Name in Chechen not complete
editChechen naming is ordered Surname, Father's name, then given name. This page only gives his father’s name then given name in Chechen. His full name would be ‘Басанан Салман ВоӀ Шамиль’ ‘Basanan Salman Voj Şamil’ (the -yev is replaced by -nan a Chechen suffix). Is there a reason his family name was not included? If not then should it be added. Other Chechens on Wikipedia show their family/teip names following these customs. 47.229.144.239 (talk) 05:59, 15 October 2025 (UTC)