Muslim Atayev [SEP] conflict
Muslim Atayev
Muslim Atayev (June 24, 1973 – January 27, 2005), also known as Emir Sayfullah, was the founder of the militant organization Yarmuk Jamaat, which later became part of the Caucasus Front's Kabardino-Balkarian Sector in the Russian-held Caucasian Muslim state Kabardino-Balkaria of the Second Chechen War. Atayev was an ethnic Balkar and started his military career as a volunteer fighting in Chechnya.
Biography.
Muslim Atayev began his military career training in one of the Pankisi Gorge training camps in
in a Nalchik apartment building, that also killed his wife and three other women.
Muslim Atayev was succeeded by Anzor Astemirov.
Atayev's lost daughter.
Atayev and his wife reportedly had a baby of which it's still not clear what became of him/her. The prosecutor in Nalchik said that Atayev had a two-year-old son, who has been handed over to relatives and is now with his grandmother in Kendelen. The mothers of both Atayev and his wife Katsieva told the Institute for War