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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia Confirms Death Of Islamist Militant, Its Most Wanted Man
2014-04-13
[Rooters] Russia's Federal Security Service
... the successor to the KGB...
 (FSB) said on Tuesday it had killed Moscow's most wanted man, Islamist insurgency leader Doku Count Doku Umarov
... Self-styled first emir of the Caucasus Emirate. Count Doku has announced that his forces will not target civilians, but qualified that statement by saying there aren't any civilians in Russia...
, in a combat operation.

A website sympathetic to the insurgency in the North Caucasus said on March 18 that Umarov was dead but the Russian authorities had not previously confirmed the report.

Umarov's Caucasus Emirate organization has played a leading role in the insurgency aimed at creating an Islamist state in Russia's North Caucasus and says it was behind attacks in Moscow in 2010 and 2011 that killed a total of 77 people.

"As a result of a combat operation, the activity of the head of the terrorist organization Caucasus Emirate, Umarov, was neutralised," Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the FSB, told a meeting of Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAK).
Posted by:trailing wife

#11  #9 I just think it is a pity that none of the -stans rhyme with Nantucket.

Head-desk. How'd I miss that month after month? Thanks!

An insurgent of Dagestantasket
Kept all of his eggs in one basket,
Into which, as he prayed,
Putin slipped a grenade --
Now they rattle around in his casket

Meh.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-04-13 23:58  

#10  Nothing ever happens in Stantucket.
Posted by: Fred   2014-04-13 16:47  

#9  I just think it is a pity that none of the -stans rhyme with Nantucket.
Posted by: SteveS   2014-04-13 14:33  

#8  I'm gonna miss that picture of him with the sword through his head. He's been a bad guy for a long, long time. I just hope it was a miserable long time; afraid to ever sleep in one place two nights in a row, no hot meals, no hot showers (well, he probably didn't miss hot showers), no warm women. Always surrounded by other bad guys and never knowing if one of them might be a rat.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2014-04-13 14:32  

#7  I never follow dawg acts or Zenobia. It's a rule.
:)
Posted by: Shipman   2014-04-13 11:29  

#6  48-hour rule doesn't apply. The Chechens announced it about a month ago and named a successor.

Unless he's retired to sunny Birobidzhan under an assumed name with a nice bank account and an 18-year-old blonde 'assistant', we can mark him titzup.
Posted by: Fred   2014-04-13 10:41  

#5  Gracias, Bella Donna, gracias.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-04-13 10:13  

#4  Agree Mike.

The only problem with Zenobiaisms is that they almost always put paid to any snark on a thread. We are not worthy 8^)
Posted by: AlanC   2014-04-13 08:11  

#3  ...I'm thinkin' the 48 hour rule applies here, but Zenobia's comment is definitely a keeper.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2014-04-13 07:58  

#2  #1 IMO, only our Zenobia can do justice to this news item.

Vague and uninformative -- that's me!

At Tovarisch Putin's command,
Count Doku has made his last stand!
We may never know where --
Maybe noone was there --
But I bet it was brilliantly planned.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-04-13 07:17  

#1  IMO, only our Zenobia can do justice to this news item.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-04-13 05:25  

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