Posted on 07/10/2006 8:14:39 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Shamil Basayev, the Chechen rebel who organized the deadliest terrorist attacks against Russia, was killed in an explosion early Monday, in what the director of the country’s security service described as a special operation that began by tracking shipments of weapons and explosives from abroad.
President Vladimir Putin declared the death of the country’s most wanted man — who had a price of more than $10 million on his head — in Ingushetia, a region on Chechnya’s western border, a “just retaliation” for the bloodshed Mr. Basayev had caused.
The director of the Federal Security Service, Nikolai P. Patrushev, said the operation disrupted plans for a terrorist attack in southern Russia intended to coincide with a meeting of the Group of 8 leaders, including President Bush, which begins Saturday in St. Petersburg.
Mr. Basayev, 41, waged war against Russia for more than a decade. He claimed responsibility for attacks that killed hundreds, many of them civilian hostages. They included the seizure of a hospital in Budyonnovsk, in southern Russia, in 1995, a theater in Moscow in 2002 and, most notoriously, a school in Beslan in 2004, where 331 people died, more than half of them schoolchildren.
He was a cunning military commander, an erratic political leader and, ultimately, a self-professed terrorist and the symbol of a seemingly endless insurgency in Chechnya and neighboring territories in the Northern Caucasus. [Page A11.]
The death of Mr. Basayev may not end the simmering conflict in Chechnya, which since 1994 has left tens of thousands of people dead, strained the Russian military and exposed Russia to accusations of gross abuses of human rights. But it is unquestionably an enormous political and psychological victory for Mr. Putin and for a country that has endured, and at times despaired of, a deadly wave of terrorist attacks.
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Good.
Another murderous SOB gets to meet his maker.Sucks to be him right now.
Good.
Didn't they already kill this guy?
Shoot another work related accident!!
I guess they are only concerned with letting terrorists who attack America get away.
Sounds like the NYT is in mourning...
Good kill...
Need hundreds of thousands more, just like it...
HUGE explosions.....nothing to bury.....bodies reduced to fertilizing mist....
Semper Fi
Perhaps, you are mixing him up with Kadyrov?
Damn good news!
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