>>13184701On February 12, 2009, the Board of Immigration Appeals upheld an Immigration Court’s
decision to remove the alien Alina Shipilina (INA 047-202-363), an associate of the Chechen
Special Islamic Regiment, for marriage fraud. (Ex. A, B.I.A. Decision).
http://royandalina.ch/Immgrtn/6.LtrInspctrGenBIA10.25.14.pdfhard to find this in more depth
http://royandalina.ch/https://fas.org/irp/world/para/spir.htmfun stuff
Special Purpose Islamic Regiment (SPIR)
Description
One of three terrorist groups affiliated with Chechen guerrillas that furnished personnel to carry out the seizure of the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow on 23 October 2002. The suicide attackers took more than 800 hostages, whom they threatened to kill if the Russian Government did not meet their demands, including the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya. Movzar Barayev commanded the SPIR until he was killed in the October seizure, which he led. The SPIR has continued to carry out guerrilla operations in Chechnya under the leadership of another Chechen leader, Khamzat, whose true identity is not known.
