Posted on 07/11/2006 5:25:53 PM PDT by RDTF
The death of Russia's most-wanted man, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, ends a long hunt for the fugitive, but questions were raised Tuesday over what caused the dynamite-filled truck next to his car to explode.
Rebels close to Basayev said the explosion that caused his death Monday was an accident, but reports also circulated of a targeted missile strike and of a secret services operation that had an agent detonating the truck's explosives.
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Russian newspapers reported Tuesday that Basayev's death resulted from a carefully planned secret services operation that used a shipment of weapons and explosives to ensnare the warlord just outside the main Ingush city of Nazran.
Unidentified security officials quoted by the Vremya Novostei daily said the preparations took six months. Intelligence agents planted in Basayev's entourage led him to a trap in which Russian special services detonated the explosives at the moment when he got near the truck, the officials said.
The Komosmolskaya Pravda daily reported the undercover agent who was traveling in Basayev's convoy received a payment of up to $500,000.
But there was also a report of a missile strike.
The ITAR-Tass news agency, citing an unidentified law enforcement official in southern Russia, reported Tuesday that Basayev was killed by a rocket that homed in on his phone _ the method used to kill Chechen separatist President Dzhokhar Dudayev in 1996.
Chechen rebel envoy Akhmed Zakayev denied that Basayev's killing occurred during a special operation and insisted Monday's explosion was an accident. He said local policemen began to suspect Basayev might be among the dead when they found fragments of an artificial leg.
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He's dead.
At this point the how is irrelevant.
I just wonder why the press, anywhere in the world, would give credence to the terrorist claims of "accident". Isn't there one corner of the globe where any working member of the press can be objective calling terrorists terrorists?
No real mystery. Great big bomb go boom, Beast of Beslan blown to bits.
It looks like the Russians poked around the truck for the better part of a day before they knew who got killed.
It took a few more hours for them to make up various stories on how they planned it all along.
http://www.kavkaz.org.uk/eng/content/2006/07/11/4947.shtml
Good. Keep it a mystery. There are many beasts on whom this technique can be repeated.
Was he the terrorist who planned the attack on the school where many innocent children and their teachers died? Sweet.
Took full credit and reveled in the glory accorded him by TROP.
The US and the Russians have been tracking them down with great regularity. Maybe they are working together more than we know.
One is luck, two may be coincidence but three is a trend.
He shouldn't have opened that letter from Readers' Digest saying he just won $10 million bucks. Gotcha!
I like that version of the story.
If the guy is dumb enough to use a phone, heck, why not send a missle his way ?
I'd suspect the different stories are to plant doubt in the back of the scumbag's minds.
Hahahahaha. The Russians using a roadside bomb to kill a terrorist. Just love the irony.
The best I've ever heard of was the Israelis. They got a terrorist's "friend" to give him a cell phone. Next they called the terrorist and when he answered they confirmed it was him and a tiny explosive in the earpiece blew his brains out the far side of his head.
"Can you hear me now?"
KEWL ! ! ! ! !
One more down.
;-)
Hey he is dead and now hes doing helen thomas from the backside
Who cares, he blowed up real good.
LOL
That was cool. Very ironic, and very cool. Apparently the Jihadis don't like VBeds much when they are used against them.
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