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| 2004-02-25 |
| One Federal Security Service (FSB) officer was killed and three slightly wounded in a Monday operation to capture the Chechen rebel group led by Khamzat Tazabayev in Ali-Yurt, Ingushetia. "The rebels offered armed resistance when they were being detained. In stubborn fighting, three rebels, including Tazabayev, were killed and one captured," an FSB spokesman told Interfax on Tuesday. A secret depot containing arms, ammunition, explosives and fake documents was discovered at the scene. Four other members of the same group were killed two weeks ago and three wounded. According to the FSB, Tazabayev, born in Alkhan-Kala, Chechnya, in 1979, was close to field commander Shamil Basayev. He engaged in the planning and staging of acts of terrorism, including suicide bombings. He was involved in a bus explosion in Mozdok and two acts of terrorism in Moscow in 2003. Here’s some more from the Moscow Times: A Chechen rebel suspected of masterminding a series of attacks in Moscow and southern Russia last year has been gunned down in Ingushetia, RIA Novosti reported. Khamzat Tazabayev, who is believed to be the right-hand man of Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, was thought to be behind the double suicide bombing at Moscow’s Tushino rock festival, the suicide bombing of a bus near the military hospital in Mozdok and the attempted suicide bombing on Tverskaya, an FSB spokesman said. He was killed in a special operation conducted by Ingush FSB forces at the village of Ali-Yurt, the spokesman said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |