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| Jaber took over financing after Abu Walid's death |
| 2005-11-18 |
| Russian special services and Ministry of Internal Affairs are concerned with invigoration of the Islamists’ activities in the country. Federal forces in Chechnya killed an al-Qaeda emissary nicknamed Jaber who trained mercenaries and transferred them to the republic. After al-Qaeda representative Abu al-Walid’s death, Jaber’s task force took over the financing of illegal armed groups. ‘This confirms the intention of radical Islamic terrorist groups to intensify subversive activities in Russia. All this concerns and alarms the Interior Ministry and special services’, Colonel General Arkady Yedelev, head of the regional headquarters for the antiterrorist operation in the North Caucasus told journalists on Friday. Jaber led a group of foreign mercenaries from December 2001. His group organized terrorist acts of illegal armed groups in Chechnya from the territory of Georgia. Documents were find on him testifying to the payment made for a series of terrorist attacks. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |