"Think not of those who are slain in Allah's way as dead. Nay, they live, finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord; They rejoice in the bounty provided by Allah. And with regard to those left behind, who have not yet joined them (in their bliss), the (martyrs) glory in the fact that on them is no fear, nor have they (cause to) grieve."
(Holy Quran, 3:169-170)
"Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the Garden (of Paradise): they fight in His Cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in Truth, through the Torah, the Gospel, and the Quran: and who is more faithful to his Covenant than Allah? Then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme."
(Holy Quran, 9:111)
The Press Service and the Administration of the President of the CRI have officially confirmed the death of the President of CRI, the Amir SDK Majlisul Shura of CRI, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of CRI Armed Forces, the Amir of Caucasian Mujahideen Sheikh Abdul-Halim Sadulayev.
Sheikh Abdul-Halim has been martyred (Insha Allah!) in an unequal battle with Russian invaders and national traitors in his hometown Argun.
The invaders and puppets report that Sheikh Abdul-Halim died in a battle that took place in the town of Argun on Saturday morning of June 17, 2006. Two members of the FSB were killed in this battle. Because of this, two of the people who took up the fight in a private house in Argun were able to break through the ring of encirclement and to get away.
Ringleaders of puppet formations declared that the assassination of Chechen leader and Amir of Caucasian Mujahideen was "a big success of exceptional importance" which "will deal a severe blow" to Mujahideen.
We would like to remind that in the summer of 2002 at en enlarged meeting of the supreme body of government of CRI, SDK Majlisul Shura of CRI, the decision was reached on the mechanism of legitimate succession of authority in conformity with constitution of CRI, in case of a death or a capture of the acting head of Chechen State.
According to CRI constitution, in case of a death of the head of the state, a duty of president of CRI is automatically assigned to the acting vice-president of CRI.
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Sheikh Abdul-Halim ibn Abu-Salam Sadulayev was born in Argun in 1967 in a family belonging to a Chechen kin Ustarg'ardoy. The latter is a separate branch of the kin of Biltoy. Argun is a town situated at a distance of 12 km from Jokhar-Gala, the capital of Chechnya. The kin of Ustarg'ardoy is regarded to have been founders of Argun (Ustarg'ardoyn-Evla).
Abdul-Halim's teachers were known Chechen theologians. This helped him to actively participate in the rebirth of Islam in Chechnya. Finally he himself became a teacher giving lessons on Islam to young people. Beside Chechen, his mother-tongue, he spoke Arabic and Russian. The war interrupted his studies at the Philological Department of the Chechen University.
Abdul-Halim Sadulayev was a participant of the First Russian-Chechen War. During the period before the Second War he regularly preached on Chechen TV. Later he became head of the Jaamaat of Argun, and he visited with lectures various regions of Chechnya. For a time he was Imam at the Mosque of Argun.
He was inscribed in a State Commission on Constitutional Shariah Reform by a Decree of President Aslan Maskhadov in 1999.
When the Second War broke, Abdul-Halim Sadulayev headed volunteers of Argun, who became part of the Armed Forces of the Republic.
In 2002, at an enlarged meeting of the State Defense Council - Madjlis-ul-Shura of the CRI (SDC-MS, this is the supreme organ of the State Power in a war period) Abdul-Halim Sadulayev was appointed Chairman of the Shariah Committee of SDC-MS and Head of the Supreme Shariah Court of the CRI.
President Aslan Maskhadov having fallen, Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, as Head of the Supreme Shariah Court, legitimately substituted Maskhadov in office of the President of the CRI and became also Amir of SDC-MS and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the CRI according to the Constitution of the CRI.
Sheikh Abdul-Halim ibn Abu-Salam Sadulayev was decorated by President Aslan Maskhadov with two State orders, one of them being K'oman Siy "honour of the nation" - the supreme order introduced by President Jokhar Dudayev.
In 2003 a Spetsnaz (a punitive unit) of the occupants seized the wife of Sheikh Abdul-Halim as a hostage. All attempts to ransom her were in vain. She was atrociously murdered by FSB-men after sadistic torturing with the aim to learn location of her husband and channels of Mujahideen communications. The occupants failed to obtain a single word of information from her.
During all his life Sheikh Abdul-Halim Sadulayev left his Motherland only once, when he performed his Hajj to Mecca.
Department of Strategic Information,
Kavkaz Center
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