Kadyrov Faces Fresh Accusations of Ordering Hits Abroad

North Caucasus Weekly ^ | March 6, 2009 | The Jamestown Foundation

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Kavkaz TV, the video arm of Kavkaz-Center, the radical Islamist Chechen rebel website, this past week posted a video clip in which a young Chechen man, Ruslan Khalidov, claimed that Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov employed him to kill Magomed Ocherhadji, a leader of the large Chechen exile community in Norway.

As Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported on March 5, Khalidov said in the video that he did not carry out the killing but that he had been tortured and threatened in an attempt to force him to comply. “They even did things that I’m ashamed to talk about,” he said, adding: “They blackmailed me with [sic] video footage of me. They told me if I didn’t accomplish the mission, they would post that video on the Internet.”