Posted on 07/10/2006 7:00:54 AM PDT by Brilliant
MOSCOW - Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, the purported author of modern Russia's worst terrorist attacks, was killed Monday, the head of the Federal Security Service said.
FSB head Nikolai Patrushev told President Vladimir Putin that Basayev had been killed overnight in Ingushetia — a republic bordering Chechnya that was plagued by sporadic spillover violence from the separatist region. Patrushev's meeting with Putin was shown on Russian state television.
Basayev, 41, claimed responsibility for some of Russia's worst terror attacks, including the seizure of some 800 hostages in a Moscow theater in 2002, the 2004 school hostage taking in Beslan that killed 331, and the seizure of about 1,000 hostages at a hospital in Budyonnovsk that killed about 100.
Patrushev told Putin that the Chechen rebels had hoped to "put political pressure on the Russian leadership" during the Group of Eight summit later this week, which Putin is chairing.
Putin called Basayev's killing "deserved retribution" for terrorist attacks in Beslan and Budyonnovsk, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported.
The attack on the Beslan school shocked Russia and divided the rebel movement, since civilians, including women and children, were taken hostage.
Basayev was the boldest and most notorious of the Chechen warlords. Another rebel leader, Doku Umarov, pledged last month that rebels would step up their attacks against Russian forces.
Patrushev said the operation to eliminate Basayev, in which many other rebels were killed, was "thanks to the operative position abroad, especially in those countries where arms were collected."
Rebel-connected Web sites did not immediately comment on Patrushev's claim.
Alu Alkhanov, president of the Kremlin-backed government in Chechnya, said the killing likely would undermine the Chechen rebel movement irreparably.
"I consider that today can be considered the date of the logical end of the fight against illegal armed formations," he said, according to the news agency Interfax.
Excellent news.
I’m one who firmly believes Hell has different levels of punishment as Heaven will have different levels of rewards for those that make it there. The most cruelest punishments in Hell would be reserved for Satan and the angels that rebelled against God, as well as for diabolical evil earthly vermin such as Hitler, Stalin, the 911 terrorist, and this scum. Burn baby burn.
For some reason, my search fails to find either "Muslim" or "Islam" in the story.
I hope to read the same about Osama soon.
Lets hope that the Russians respectfully return the hero's remains to OBL with the proper dress for a mulsim.....a bomb vest...........3 to 5 kilotons would be about correct.
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Bump! Good news - Thanks for the ping and info.
((At least not from the Russians...))
He will have no water now!!!
Good riddance, even if Putin and Co are too stupid to really, truly join us in the terror wars. We're facing the same enemy, just from different parts of the world. It's only a matter of time before Chechens begin to work for Al Qaeda, providing them white operatives that can more easily slip in and out of the United States.
For some reason, my search fails to find either "Muslim" or "Islam" in the story.
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