
Khaled Yusuf Muhammad al-Elitat (1969-21 April 2011) was the leader of the Mujahideen in Chechnya from 2006 to 2011, succeeding Abu Hafs al-Urduni and preceding Abdulla Kurd.
Biography[]
Khaled Yusuf Muhammad al-Elitat was born in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia in 1969, and arrived in the Caucasus in 1999 as a Mujahideen foreign fighter. He formerly served in the Jordanian Air Force, and was trained in the military. He became a high-ranking leader of the Mujahideen, and succeeded Abu Hafs al-Urduni as leader of the Mujahideen in 2006.
Death[]
In 2011, a team of Spetsnaz troops launched a search-and-destroy mission and Muhannad and one other militant ran into a trap. The two were gunned down by the Russian troops, and Abdulla Kurd became the new Mujahideen leader.