Al-Qaida leader killed in Southern Russia
MOSCOW, Dec. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday an al-Qaida leader had been killed by Russianforces in the country's southern region.
Abu Omar al-Seif, leader of the al-Qaida network in Russia's North Caucasus region, was killed in the southern part of Dagestanin November, FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev said, quoted by Russian news agencies.
Russian authorities had accused al-Seif of helping to plot the Beslan school seizure and apartment house bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk in 1999, as well as other attacks.
Al-Seif, a Saudi national, was sent to North Caucasus by al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden 10 years ago. He had been running underground terrorist cells in Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia under the cover of a non-governmental organization, the Al-Haramein Islamic Foundation, an FSB spokesman said.
Al-Seif "received and distributed funds from abroad to stage terrorist attacks and acts of sabotage in Russia" and played an active part in "plotting terrorist attacks and promoting extremistreligious and political ideas," the spokesman said.
He was appointed al-Qaida's leader in the North Caucasus region after former leader, Abu al-Walid, was killed in April 2004, and, this year, he moved from Ingushetia to Dagestan, the spokesman said.
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