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Pro-Chechen Arab fighter killed near Chechnya
 | On the heels of Vakha Arsanov collecting his raisins, this is a good week for the FSB. |
MOSCOW - Russian forces have killed an Arab fighting alongside Chechen rebels, the spokesman for the Russian forces in the North Caucasus, Major Ilya Shabalkin said late Tuesday.
| Ilya was actually a major general the last time I looked... |
"The operation was conducted by the Federal Security Service and several interior ministry officers," Shabalkin was quoted by the Russian news agencies as saying. In the course of the operation, which was carried out in the Russian Caucasus republic of Dagestan bordering Chechnya, Russian forces also killed another rebel, who has not yet been identified, Shabalkin said.
"Who's that, Volodya?"
"Just some dead guy." |
The press center for Russian forces in the North Caucasus said in a later statement that man, Jarah, was a Kuwaiti national aged about 30, and that he was killed in the town of Solnechnoye, Interfax reported. The statement described Jarah as an Al-Qaeda emissary in Chechnya. Shabalkin said Jarah arrived in Chechnya between 1995 and 1997, together with feared Arab warlord Khattab, whom the FSB killed in 2002. Russian forces in Chechnya announced earlier Tuesday they had killed Alash Daudov, a top rebel leader, along with two other Chechen fighters, in the suburbs of Chechen capital Grozny.
Posted by: Steve White 2005-05-18 |
