| "Colonel" Boris Aidamirov, who led the security department of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov, surrendered to the police on Thursday, Chechnya’s presidential security service chief Ramzan Kadyrov told Interfax. "Aidamirov decided to surrender after negotiations, and the news that the former defense minister of Ichkeria, Magomed Khambiyev, had laid down his arms. Another 10 members of an illegal armed unit laid down their arms and came to Gudermes with him," Kadyrov said. One of the rebels was the deputy chief of Maskhadov’s security department. |