A commander of a terrorist group, Aslan Gasayev, suspected of complicity in masterminding recent terrorist attacks in Moscow, has been eliminated in Chechnya.
| "Eliminated." Nice verb... |
The news was reported by the regional operations headquarters for monitoring the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus. At present it is "being checked whether Gasayev took part in recruiting and brainwashing female suicide terrorists, two of whom committed terrorist acts in the Tushino district of Moscow on July 5, while the third one tried to do the same in the Tverskaya-Yamskaya street in downtown Moscow on July 9". The so-called "emir" of the Wahhabite group and his three bodyguards were killed in the village of Alkhankala in the Grozny district during a joint operation conducted by the security service and police after the terrorists refused to surrender. According to the information provided by the headquarters, Gasayev, 21, was the successor of Islam Chelayev, nicknamed "Butcher", the chief of a terrorist unit killed in April last year. The whereabouts of Gasayev were disclosed by the former members of his terrorist group, who had been detained earlier and against whom criminal proceedings had been instituted. Grave crimes, for which 54 criminal cases were opened, have been committed by Gasayev's group. Earlier he was in the terrorist group led by Arbi Barayev, who was killed in June 2001. Gasayev, together with Barayev and Chelayev, was involved in the killing of more than 50 residents of the village of Alkhan Kala and other districts of Grozny. |