Alimsultanov speaks no English and gives orders
in Arabic. It’s up to the Arabic-fluent members of the
team to translate for the rest.

Alimsultanov is a very, very tired jihadi. His heart
burned more fiercely when he had both arms, both
eyes, and more of his hearing.

Timur Alimsultanov has been fighting since 1995
during the First Chechen War. He went on to fight in
the Balkan Wars, the Second Chechen War, Afghanistan,
and finally Syria with ISIL. There is no flavor or
color of Crusader he hasn’t had a hand in killing. The
cowardly Americans wounded him with a bomb at the
Battle of Kobane last year and since then he has been
on light duties. But he’s the sort who knows what to
do if there’s trouble.

Thanks to an American 500-pound bomb, Alimsultanov is
missing his right arm below the elbow, his right eye,
and his right eardrum. He nearly died