Chechnya - Rebel "president" killed

AFP via Babelfish translation | June 17, 2006

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ALARM - The "President" Independence Killed tchetchene

GROZNY (Russia) - the "president" autoproclamé of the independence rebels tchetchenes, Abdoul-Khalim Saïdoullaïev, was killed, announced to Saturday with AFP a person in charge for the government tchetchene pro-Russian.

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Interfax - SO-CALLED PRESIDENT OF ICHKERIA ABDULKHAMID SAIDULLAYEV KILLED - CHECHENCABINET MINISTER KHUCHIYEV

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Link?

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try www.interfax.com

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It's a headline with no link.

Let's keep watching.

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Links to News Sources - Russia

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["Abdoul-Khalim Saïdoullaïev, was killed"]

Hmmm...Is that right?

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Following the death of Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov, a statement was posted on the rebel website Kavkazcenter on March 9 by Shamil Basayev announcing the appointment of his successor. The statement named him as "Abdul Khalim" and his identity as the new rebel president was confirmed by Maskhadov's envoy Akhmed Zakaev and his son, Anzor Maskhadov, in interviews with Ekho Moskvy the following day.

Confusion initially surrounded the identity of Abdul-Khalim, with some claiming he was a Saudi citizen. However, in the March 10 interview, Zakaev informed Ekho Moskvy: "I know this man. He was the chairman of the Supreme Sharia Court. He is quite young, 35-36, (and has) great composure. He was one of those who were trusted by, and close to, Aslan Maskhadov."

A BIOGRAPHY OF ABDUL-KHALIM SADULAEV

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ON THE NET...

http://www.kavkazcenter.com/

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Interfax.com -

Saidulayev, "president of Ichkeria," killed - Chechen minister (Part 2)

GROZNY. June 17 (Interfax) - Abdulkhalim Saidulayev, the so-called president of Ichkeria, has been killed in Chechnya, Chechen Cabinet Minister Muslim Khuchiyev told Interfax Saturday.

The operation in which Saidulayev was killed was carried out in the Chechen city of Argun, he said.

Acting on a tip, officers from the Akhmat Kadyrov special police task force No. 2 and the Argun district police department located Saidulayev's whereabouts and killed him when he offered armed resistance, Khuchiyev said.

"Measures are being taken now to legally formalize the fact of Saidulayev's killing," Khuchiyev said.

Argun police department chief Ali Tagirov has confirmed Saidulayev's death.

"Investigating officials have arrived at the scene of the operation, people who knew Saidulayev well are being taken there, and procedures to identify the man's body are being carried out. At the same time, the participants in the operation have no doubts about the very fact of Saidulayev's killing," Tagirov said.

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["Measures are being taken now to legally formalize the fact of Saidulayev's killing," Khuchiyev said."]

Khuchiyev says alot of things.

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Here's one
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5089942.st


Rebel leader 'killed' in Chechnya

Saydullayev was not a familiar figure
Chechen separatist rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev has been killed in a police operation, the pro-Moscow government says.
Police had located him in the town of Argun and he had been killed in a gun battle when they moved in, said Chechen cabinet minister Muslim Khuchiyev.

No comment from the rebels was immediately available.

Mr Saydullayev was appointed in 2005 to replace Aslan Maskhadov after the rebel president died in a Russian attack.

Details of his death are still being investigated, Mr Khuchiyev added.

Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov welcomed the news as "a severe blow" to the separatists.

"The terrorists have been virtually beheaded... and they are never going to recover from it," he told Russian news agencies.

Though appointed leader, Mr Saydullayev was a relatively obscure figure, correspondents say.

He used to make religious programmes for the separatists' TV station and speeches he released as leader are couched in Islamist language.

He was much less prominent than veteran separatist commander Shamil Basayev who appeared on a rebel website last week in what was billed as a new video

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I wonder if this is a result of intelligence gained in the American operation against Zarkawi in Iraq 10 days ago.
Islamist Terrorist Liquidation Fever - catch it.