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Influential militant killed by Basayev's order, Chechen police say18.09.2005, 00.17 GROZNY, September 18 (Itar-Tass) - Chechnya's First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, who supervises law-enforcement bodies, said influential field commander Akhmed Avdorkhanov had been killed. Avdorkhanov was killed by the order of terrorist Shamil Basayev, Kadyrov said in a statement on Saturday, because they quarreled over "a 1.5-million-dollar fund that had come to militants from their foreign sponsors." "Basayev killed him because he wanted to take all the money," he added. Avdorkhanov was chief of guards of militants' leader Aslan Maskhadov, destroyed in an operation by federal forces in the...

GROZNY, SEPTEMBER 24, (RIA Novosti) - Federal forces, who are conducting some local special operations in several Chechen districts, want to flush out and liquidate terrorist leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov, as well as rank-and-file bandits. This was disclosed to RIA Novosti here today at the regional command center for supervising the North Caucasian counter-terrorist operation. According to the center's spokesperson, four bandits have been killed during a special operation, which got underway in the evening of September 23 near Mairtup village, and which still continues. Two thugs were killed in the vicinity of Alleroi village. Both of...