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Contents. History This highly autonomous, small (probably only 20 to 50 members at any given time) group was first founded and led by Shamil Basayev under the name of Riyadus Salihiin Reconnaissance and Sabotage Battalion of Chechen Martyrs (later also known as Islamic Brigade of Shaheeds) in October 1999 as a 'special battalion to carry out acts of ' in retaliation for the. Basayev took responsibility for a series of suicide attacks in Chechnya and, including the which destroyed the Chechen Republic's government headquarters in Grozny and killed over 80 in 2002, the truck bomb attack at Chechnya's headquarters in which killed more than 50 in 2003, the truck bomb attack at a Russian military hospital in, which killed at least 50 the same year, and a series of 'Operation Boomerang' suicide bombings (many of them ) which have killed over 200 civilians in and elsewhere in Russian heartland, including 90 killed in the over two Russian regions in 2004. Riyad-us Saliheen also took responsibility for the involvement in the hostage crises in in 2002 and in 2004, which together have resulted in more than 500 hostage fatalities.
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In 2005 the group has been reportedly disbanded by Basayev under pressure from the Chechen separatist president, as a condition for Basayev to enter the official leadership of the separatist government. In any case it did not display any activity for more than four years after September 2004. In early 2009, the leader of pan-, announced the revival of the group as Riyad-us-Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs (without its 'Chechen' part of the name, although the group is often referred by media as such anyway), saying he has 20 people fully prepared for 'martyr operations'. Since then the now much more ethnically-diversified group took responsibility for a series of suicide and other attacks in the Russian republics in and elsewhere, including the which killed at least 25 at police headquarters in, a car bomb assassination attempt at the Ingush president, and the killing of scores of policemen in numerous smaller suicide attacks in Chechnya and Ingushetia, and since the beginning of 2010 eventually also in.
It also took responsibility for the, was blamed by some for the, and has also been alleged to be behind the 2011. The most recent operation claimed by the Brigade was the assassination of the convicted Russian war criminal in Moscow on 10 June 2011. However, this was refuted by the rebel website the very next day, triggering confusion over the original claim. See also.