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FORMER CHECHEN PRESIDENT DIES IN BLAST (Terror Alert)
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| Last Updated: 12:27 UK, Friday February 13, 2004
Posted on 02/13/2004 4:32:03 AM PST by gdyniawitawa
FORMER CHECHEN PRESIDENT DIES IN BLAST
Former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev has died following a bomb attack on his car in Doha.
Two of his bodyguards were also killed in the blast.
The ex-leader was taken to hospital after he was seriously injured in the explosion. He later died.
The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera news channel said that Russia had demanded Yandarbiyev's extradition from Qatar.
It is believed he was involved in the seizure of more than 800 hostages at a Moscow theatre in October 2002 where 129 hostages died.
Yandarbiyev was interim president after Dzhokhar Dudayev was killed by Russian forces in 1996.
He was replaced by Aslan Maskhadov, who was elected Chechen president in 1997.
More to follow...
TOPICS: Announcements; Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: assassination; caucasus; chechnya; waronterror; yandarbiyev
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To: gdyniawitawa
bump
To: gdyniawitawa
Good catch. Welcome to FR.
To: gdyniawitawa
boom
To: gdyniawitawa
Looks like the Russians are letting the terrorists know that they can play the game too...
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posted on
02/13/2004 4:40:18 AM PST
by
2banana
To: RippleFire
Live by the sword.....
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posted on
02/13/2004 4:41:07 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(60 Senate seats changes the world!! Bury Kerry in 04!)
To: EQAndyBuzz
Live by the sword..... I was going to post exactly the same words! You were faster.
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posted on
02/13/2004 4:50:36 AM PST
by
A. Pole
(pay no attention to the man behind the curtain , the hand of free market must be invisible)
To: A. Pole
Justice delayed is justice denied, but not always!
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posted on
02/13/2004 4:53:08 AM PST
by
laconic
To: gdyniawitawa
"It is believed he was involved in the seizure of more than 800 hostages at a Moscow theatre in October 2002 where 129 hostages died. Yandarbiyev was interim president after Dzhokhar Dudayev was killed by Russian forces..."
I don't know if I'd call this a terror alert.
More of a 'get even with terrorists Alert', or 'Russia gives terrorists a taste of their own medicine, Alert'
(I've got more.......)
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posted on
02/13/2004 4:56:57 AM PST
by
nuconvert
("Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?")
To: gdyniawitawa
Darn, I thought it was about Clinton, but it was chechen and not chicken.
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posted on
02/13/2004 5:05:54 AM PST
by
Evil Inc
To: nuconvert
"[...] Yandarbiyev was interim president after Dzhokhar Dudayev was killed by Russian forces..." "President" Dudayev was killed by a stray missile. Read about at Space: Warfare’s Ultimate High Ground
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posted on
02/13/2004 5:12:41 AM PST
by
A. Pole
(pay no attention to the man behind the curtain , the hand of free market must be invisible)
To: gdyniawitawa
Sounds like the Russian FSB got there man. Excellent news!
To: 2banana
The Russians taking lessons from the Mossad! WAY TO GO!!!
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posted on
02/13/2004 5:37:36 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: gdyniawitawa
Last Updated: 13:16 UK, Friday February 13, 2004
FORMER PRESIDENT KILLED
Former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev has died following a reported bomb attack on his car in Qatar.
Two of his bodyguards were also killed in the blast, in the capital Doha, according to reports.
A doctor told the Associated Press news agency that Yandarbiyev died from his injuries on the way to the hospital.
Earlier, an official said the former president was in surgery for his injuries.
The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera news channel said the explosion occurred after Yandarbiyev had prayed at a mosque.
It added that Russia had demanded Yandarbiyev's extradition from Qatar.
Russia accused him of organising various kidnappings and of maintaining international terrorist ties.
It is believed he was involved in the seizure of more than 800 hostages at a Moscow theatre in October 2002 where 129 people died.
The United Nations last year put Yandarbiyev on a list of people with alleged links to al Qaeda.
He was also considered a key link in the Chechen rebels' finance network, channeling funds from abroad.
But Yandarbiyev had denied links between Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and Chechen rebels.
He was interim president after Dzhokhar Dudayev was killed by Russian forces in 1996 and was replaced by Aslan Maskhadov, who was elected Chechen president in 1997.
To: gdyniawitawa
Russia had demanded Yandarbiyev's extradition from Qatar. It is believed he was involved in the seizure of more than 800 hostages at a Moscow theatre in October 2002 where 129 hostages died. Looks more like the remnants of the KGB were just tying up a few loose ends than any type of terrorist activity.
P.S. If the Russians would have had a drug called Narcaine on hand, many of those hostages could have been saved.
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posted on
02/13/2004 6:45:25 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: nuconvert
I agree. This was a bit of "international justice" by the Russians.
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posted on
02/13/2004 6:46:33 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: gdyniawitawa
following a bomb attack on his carSounds a little vague. Maybe their own fuse went off early?
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posted on
02/13/2004 8:17:13 AM PST
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: Dog; Dog Gone; Coop; swarthyguy; Peach; FairOpinion; JustPiper; Green Knight; Luis Gonzalez; ...
Nice to know that the FSB is still effective in this day and age.
This thug was the main liaison between the Chechen al-Qaeda leadership and its financial backers in the Arabian Peninsula. He also helped to orchestrate theater seizure in Moscow and is probably the main coordinator for the movement of Chechen jihadis into Iraq.
He was being protected in Qatar by the nation's interior minister, who is himself an al-Qaeda mole. The minister in question had previously protected Abu Musab Zarqawi and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed during the 1990s.
To: Angelus Errare
"Russia doesn't conduct negotiations with terrorists -- it destroys them," -Vlad Putin.
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posted on
02/13/2004 9:43:43 AM PST
by
swarthyguy
(How much America has Saudi Wahhabi Money bought.)
To: laconic
Not justice so much as war.
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posted on
02/13/2004 10:05:20 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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