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| Basayev associate killed in Chechnya |
| 2006-02-15 |
| An associate of Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev has been killed while resisting arrest, a Chechen official said Tuesday. A spokesman for Chechnya`s Interior Ministry said Dzhabrail Aburzakov was killed when he opened fire on officers who tried to arrest him in a village in the west of the Russian republic, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Tuesday. A pistol, five homemade explosive devices and two grenades were found on his body. Aburzakov was a suspect in the November homicide of a Chechen government official and his son, as well as other crimes. He was said to have had close links with Basayev, the Chechen separatist commander who has claimed responsibility for organizing the Beslan school seizure of September 2004 which ended with the deaths of 331 hostages, and for other acts of terror within Russia in recent years. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 He's been quiet lately. |
| Posted by: Cruting Wherese8001 2006-02-15 13:42 |