Rasul Makasharipov
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{{Infobox Military Person
|name='''Rasul Makasharipov'''<br>({{lang-ru|Расул Макашарипов}})
|lived=1972 - 2005
|placeofbirth=[[Tsumadinsky district]], [[Dagestan]]
|placeofdeath=[[Makhachkala]], [[Dagestan]]
|image=[[Image:Rasul Makasharipov2.jpg]]
|caption=
|nickname=Muslim
|allegiance= [[Shariat Jamaat]]<br>[[Caucasian Front (Chechen War)|Caucasian Front]]
|battles=[[Second Chechen War]]
}}
'''Rasul Makasharipov''' ({{lang-ru|Расул Макашарипов}}) ([[1972]] - [[July 6]], [[2005]]) nicknamed '''Muslim''' and also known as '''[[Emir]] Rasul''' was a [[Dagestan]]i [[rebel]] leader in [[Dagestan]]. He was the founder of the [[Dzhennet]] group (Arabic: ''Paradise'') and later created the pro-[[Chechen_people|Chechen]] [[Shariat Jamaat]], which sought to unite [[Caucasus (geographic region)|Caucasian]] [[Muslims]] under [[Islam]]ic rule and later became part of the [[Caucasian Front]].
== Biography ==
Rasul Makasharipov was a native of Dagestan's Tsumadinsky district in South-West Dagestan bordering [[Chechnya]], inhabitated by [[Caucasian Avars|Avars]]. In 1997, his father expelled him from the house, and he moved to Chechnya. He became an [[Avar language|Avar]] interpreter of [[Arab]] field commander [[Khattab]] and warlord [[Shamil Basayev]] during the [[Invasion of Dagestan]]. He surrendered to Dagestani authorities in 2000, but was released in an [[amnesty]] a year later.
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Within a year he was assembling his own organization, finding willing recruits from young Dagestanis who had suffered at the hands of the police. According to one of his followers, “Makasharipov spoke about the necessity to stop persecution and humiliation of Muslims in Dagestan. He said this could be done by killing policemen.” (''[[The Moscow Times]]'', March 15, 2005). The organisation became known as the Dzhennet group which in Dagestan, since 2002, had been killing dozens of high-ranking police officials, investigators and prosecutorsin in the course of the [[Second Chechen War]].<ref>[http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/755035.html Shariat organization succeeds to Dzhennet rebel group], Memorial, 14/1/2005</ref><ref>http://www.jamestown.org/docs/McGregor-14Sep06.pdf</ref>
He replaced the Dzhennet group with the [[Shariat Jamaat]], which in [[May 2005]] became part of the [[Caucasian Front (Chechen War)|Caucasian Front]] established by then [[president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria]] [[Abdul-Halim Sadulayev]] after the death of [[Aslan Maskhadov]]. The [[Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation|FSB]] falsely reported the death of Makasharipov in [[January 15 2005 sieges in Dagestan|a tank attack on a home in Makhachkala]], [[January 15]], [[2005]], but Makasharipov surfaced four days later to refute these claims.
Makasharipov was killed during a shootout with Russian troops on [[July 6]], [[2005]].<ref name="death">[http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=409&issue_id=3401 SHARIA JAMAAT CONFIRMS DEATH OF ITS "EMIR"], The Jamestown Foundation, July 14, 2005</ref> [[Rappani Khalilov]] became his military succesor.
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