Omar al-shishani biography
Omar al-shishani biography
Omar al-shishani biography in arabic...
Salahuddin Shishani
Giorgi Kushtanashvili (? – December 2017), later known as Feyzullah Margoshvili and commonly known by his nom de guerreSalahuddin Shishani, was briefly the head of Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar and later headed Jaysh Usrah in Syria until his death in December 2017.
Life
Shishani was born Giorgi Kushtanashvili, though he changed his name to Feyzullah Margoshvili and later took up the nom de guerre Salahuddin Shishani.[1]
He "fought alongside" Ruslan Gelayev during the wars in Chechnya.[3]
He was involved in a July 2002 battle with Russian forces in Itum-Kalinsky District, Russia after a group of militants had crossed the Russian-Georgian border, in which eight "Russian soldiers were killed" and seven "wounded." He was arrested in August 2002 alongside another Georgian, Robinzon Margoshvili, as well as a few Chechens.
Shishani and Margoshvili were charged with "crossing the border illegally and trafficking explosi