Dagestan Stone See
In 1998 he launched an abortive try to storm the federal government buildings within the Dagestani capital, Makhachkala. Khachilayev escaped to Chechnya where he found sanctuary with Islamist guerrilla actions, eventually forging an alliance with Khattab. Despite their Dagestani origins, he and the self-styled prime minister of ‘Islamic Dagestan’, Ramazanov, proved marginal, reflecting their failure…