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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Qaeda coordinator killed in N Caucasus: Russia
2009-09-01
[Al Arabiya Latest] Russian security forces said on Monday they had killed an al-Qaeda "coordinator" and a second rebel fighter in its troubled North Caucasus region of Dagestan.

"A foreign mercenary killed in the special operation has been identified. He is an Algerian national, al-Qaeda's coordinator in Dagestan, known among the militants as 'Doctor Muhammad'," a security official told the RIA Novosti news agency.

" A representative of an international terrorist organization in the North Caucasus tasked to oversee terrorist acts in Dagestan was neutralized during a combat operation "
Security officer
Russian officials said cash from foreign-based radical Islamic organizations is funding the recent surge of violence in Dagestan and the other two North Caucasus regions of Chechnya and Ingushetia in which dozens of people have died.

Earlier this month a suicide bombing in Ingushetia killed at least 24 police officers and injured 136.

"A representative of an international terrorist organization in the North Caucasus tasked to oversee terrorist acts in Dagestan was neutralized during a combat operation," a security officer told Vesti-24 television news channel.

A security source told RIA that the agent also held French citizenship.

Muhammed and a second rebel fighter were killed when police stormed a house in Dagestan's Khasavyurt district bordering Chechnya on Sunday night, Russian news agencies reported.


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