Shaykh Doku (Dokka) Khamatovich Umarov - Chechen: Умаран Хамади кант Докка, born April 13, 1964, in Kharsenoi, Chechnya. Umarov was in Moscow when the first Russian-Chechen war broke out in December 1994, and has stated that as a patriot he considered it his duty to return to Chechnya to fight. As Vice-President of the separatist government and a field commander, he was automatically elevated to the position as leader following the killing of Sheikh Abdul Halim on 17 June 2006. Having now become president, Umarov will also hold such posts as the head of the State Defense Council, Amir of the Madzhlis Shura of the Caucasus, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and finally, Emir of the Mujahideen of the Caucasus. On November 23, 2006, large numbers of Russian Defense Ministry and FSB troops, without the participation of Chechen police, were reported to have surrounded Umarov and his forces in a forest near the village of Yandi-Katar in the Achkhoy-Martanovsky District, on the internal border between Ingushetia and Chechnya. Helicopters were patrolling the area and artillery forces were reported to be shelling the forest for several days. According to Kommersant sources, Umarov was wounded but has managed to get out from the encirclement. Umarov then spent the winter months travelling across the mountains to the nearby republic of Kabardino-Balkaria to meet with local jamaats fighting Russian authorities in the region and consolidate the Caucasian Front set up by the late President Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev.