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[KavkazUzel] A native of the Pankisi Gorge, Tsiskara Tokhosashvili, known as Emir Isa, was detained at the Tbilisi airport, the Georgian Security Service reported today. The security forces consider him the head of one of the IS units.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Caesar Tokhosashvili, a native of Pankisi, whom the security forces consider to be the deputy of the Amir of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" Abu Umar al-Shishani
| ...real name Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili, known by his nom de guerre Abu Omar al-Shishani. A Georgian-Chechen convert who worked his way up to senior ISIS military commander and member of the Shura council, he went for jihad after a stint as a sergeant in the Georgian Army. He was killed in Iraq’s Saladin province in 2016, aged 30, after a busy and eventful life... |
banned in Russia by the court, was detained in Kiev in December 2019 and extradited to Tbilisi in May 2020.
Umar al-Shishani's deputy was detained in Kiev, where he lived in a private house, and placed under extradition arrest . A portrait examination confirmed that the detainee is one of the wanted leaders of the Islamic State, the SBU reported in November 2019.
A citizen of Georgia, Tsiskara Tokhosashvili, was detained at the Tbilisi airport, the State Security Service (SSS) of Georgia reported today.
According to the investigation, in 2015 Tokhosashvili left Georgia and joined the Islamic State*. In the Middle East, he became known as "Emir Isa" and quickly became a powerful figure in IS.
"He took an active part in terrorist activities and the conduct of hostilities in Syria and Iraq. For some time he led one of the units of a terrorist organization in the conflict zone," Interpress news quoted the agency as saying today.
Tokhosashvili faces 10 to 17 years in prison. The case against him was initiated under the article on joining a foreign terrorist organization and complicity in terrorist activities.
His brother, Tsezar Tokhosashvili, known in the Islamic State as Al Bara Shishani, is already serving his sentence in Georgia. The Tokhosashvili brothers are from the village of Omalo in the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia, where ethnic Chechen-Kists live, Novosti Georgia reported today.
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