[wetphoenix]

This article mentions his call to a father back to Pankisi gorge which is a Georgian area particularly infested with Islamic extremists. I don’t even think the are any other, non-muslim groups left in place since interwar period between first and second Chechen wars.

[PVT4evr]

That’s a good point, I based my information of his father being a Christian off of this interview.

http://www.georgianews.ge/society/28436-your-ruined-me-tarkhan-ex1clusive-interview-with-the-father-of-abu-omar-al-shishani.html