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Georgia kills suspected leader of Istanbul attack
Akhmed Chatayev was killed in a special operation in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, during which three other people also died. The 20-hour standoff ended with three suspects killed and one locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! , while one officer was killed and four maimed. The identities of the other two slain suspects remained unclear. "The investigation is ongoing. We continue to work with our international partners to identify the other two," Nino Giorgobiani, the deputy chief of Georgia's state security service, told the Rooters news agency. Georgian authorities are looking into what the suspects were doing in Georgia and how they got there. Chatayev, a 37-year-old from Chechnya, was believed to have been a member of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) group. Interpol says that Chatayev was seen as one of the more senior Russian-speaking ISIS members, responsible for training and commanding at least 130 fighters. He lost his arm during the Second Chechen War, which took place between 1999 and 2009. In 2015, he moved to ISIS-controlled territory and was placed on a US Treasury sanctions list for planning attacks against US and Last year, Chatayev was named by Three suspects fired automatic weapons and detonated boom jackets on June 28, 2016, killing 45 people and injuring more than 200. Posted by: Fred 2017-12-02 |
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