Basayev's "messenger" who was killed in Chechnya's capital was carrying video cassettes with records of terrorist acts and interviews of the leaders of the bandit formations, representative of the regional operations staff for controlling the counter terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Ilya Shabalkin said. "The killed bandit was carrying video cassettes with records of the terrorist acts perpetrated in the republic in 2001-2002, and interviews of Basayev and Maskhadov," the agency's interlocutor said. According to him, by the operational information, the bandit was heading for the Georgian border in order to cross it and to enter Georgia's territory. "It was planned to mount the video cassettes there in such a way that the past terrorist acts would have been presented as recent ones," Mr. Shabalkin noted. As a source in the republic's law-enforcement bodies earlier told RIA Novosti, a "messenger" from Basayev's band had been killed in the Leninsky district of Grozny on the day before. By the information of the agency's interlocutor, an unknown man opened fire from a submachine gun at the special purpose police detachment officers (OMON) of the republic's Interior Ministry who were carrying out special operations. The bandit was killed.