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Aslan Maskhadov was killed in Chechnya. He was killed by the FSB's special forces, despite Deputy Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov's repeated assurances that he was about catch Maskhadov any day now. This makes sense: Chechens don't kill other Chechens to help out the Russians.

Chechen leader killed in raid CHRIS STEPHEN IN MOSCOW CHECHEN rebel leader, Aslan Maskhadov, has been killed during a dramatic raid on his hide-out by Russian special forces. Russian television showed the body of the former Chechen president lying on his back with his combat shirt open and his eyes open, shortly after the raid. Confirmation of his death came in dramatic fashion with a hastily arranged television interview between the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the head of the secret service, the FSB, Nikolai Patrushev. Mr Patrushev, speaking across a small table, told Mr Putin about the raid, and...

"Killing Aslan Maskhadov was Russia's mistake" claims Polish Foreign Minister 2005-03-09, 12:46 "Killing Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov by Russian security forces was a political mistake", claims Poland's foreign minister Adam Rotfeld. In his opinion, Maskhadov was the only partner for Russia, with whom a ceasefire and peace in Chechnya could be negotiated. The head of the Polish diplomacy has not, however, ruled out Moscow's intention to close the doors to dialogue with the Chechens by shooting their leader. The 53-year-old Maskhadov, who had battled Russian troops in North Caucasus for more than a decade, was killed in a village...

FSB special forces officers killed Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov in a special operation in the Chechen village Tolstoy-Yurt, Federal Security Service director Nikolai Patrushev told President Vladimir Putin in televised remarks Tuesday night. Moscow-backed Deputy Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov called Maskhadov's death a gift for all Chechen women on the Women's Day holiday Tuesday, while Maskhadov envoy Akhmed Zakayev and fierce Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky warned that Moscow might have lost its only chance to bring peace to Chechnya. The federal military headquarters for the North Caucasus confirmed that Maskhadov was dead, but the circumstances surrounding his death...

Tuesday 08 March 2005, 19:42 Makka Time, 16:42 GMT Maskhadov said he had tried to end the Beslan siege peacefully The Chechen deputy prime minister has confirmed to Aljazeera that separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov has been killed by Russian troops. Russian media had earlier reported on Tuesday that ousted Chechen President Maskhadov had been killed by troops in Chechnya. Interfax news agency quoted army spokesman Ilya Shabalkin as saying Maskhadov had been killed by Russian troops. Russian television stations aired pictures of a bearded corpse they said were of Maskhadov. His death would mark a major success for President Vladimir...

GROZNY. March 9 (Interfax) - Now that Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov has been killed, the republic's presidential security service will focus on an operation aimed at detaining terrorist Shamil Basayev, Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov told Interfax. "The elimination of Aslan Maskhadov will accelerate the process of establishing the whereabouts of Basayev and detaining him. Now we can pay twice as much attention to this problem, as previously we had to work in several directions," Kadyrov said. Basayev is extremely dangerous to society, and "terrorism is his way of living and his way of thinking. In...

MOSCOW, March 8 - Russian special forces killed the leader of Chechnya's separatists in a raid today that gave the Kremlin a rare victory in a bloody war that has killed tens of thousands and spawned a wave of terrorist attacks across Russia in recent years. The slain separatist, Aslan Maskhadov, who from hiding led thousands of fighters following Russia's second invasion of the republic in 1999, died in a bunker beneath a house in an outwardly peaceful village, Tolstoy Yurt, only 12 miles from the region's capital, Grozny, according to Russian officials and news accounts. His death is akin...

Aslan Maskhadov is destroyed TERRIBLE, 8 mar - RIA of "News". In the Chechen Republic Aslan Maskhadov is destroyed, the representative of a regional staff on management of counterterrorist operation (ROSH) on Northern Caucasus Ilya Shabalkin informed RIA of "News". As he said, during the special action which have been lead on Tuesday by special troops of FSB of Russia in settlement Thick - JUrt, the leader bovikov Aslan Maskhadov is destroyed. As RIA of "News" Ilya Shabalkin earlier informed, in last two day in Vedenskom and areas Nozhaj-Jurtovskom of the Chechen Republic special action is carried out. As...

Russian forces say Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov has been killed. Russian television showed pictures of a body resembling that of Mr Maskhadov, 53, in a pool of blood in Chechnya. But President Vladimir Putin has asked for further identification. Chechens have not confirmed the death, which a spokesman said was likely to be true. The spokesman said Chechnya's war of independence would not be affected by the death of Mr Maskhadov - the most moderate of Chechen rebel commanders. [snip]---------- Mr Maskhadov was elected Chechen president in January 1997 but was ousted two years later. Thousands of people -...

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) -- A spokesman for Russian forces says Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov has been killed. (Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) APTV 03-08-05 1028EST

Is killed In the Chechen Republic the nearest colleague A.Mashadova Today in area Urus-Martanovskom of the Chechen Republic one of Aslan Maskhadov's the nearest colleagues, field commander Arbi Alamatov is killed, the information of radio station " Freedom ", referring on republican power structures is those. On Thursday the private house in settlement Alhazurovo where was Alamatov in the morning has been surrounded. It has been killed after 40-minute fight. In area Groznenskom of the Chechen Republic the military motorcade is fired. Are wounded seven person. Anybody from employees of law enforcement bodies has not suffered. Employees of militia...

NALCHIK, February 20 (Itar-Tass) - The gunmen, killed in Nalchik on Sunday, were members of armed gangs, subordinated to Basayev and Maskhadov, Russian Deputy Interior Minister Arkady Yedelev told reporters on Sunday. According to deputy minister, they are members of the Karachayevo-Cherkess jamaat and were on the federal Wanted List for committing terror acts in the Rostov Region and Stavropol Territory and were hatching new terror acts. In Yedelev’s words, new methods were used during the special operation: officially permitted Cheremukha-7 gas was used to neutralize the bandits who entrenched themselves in an apartment. “Gunmen suffered a serious blow”...

Chechen rebels have been fighting for more than a decade "Chechen separatist leaders have ordered a ceasefire for the month of February, a pro-rebel website reports. The Kavkaz Centre site said that Aslan Maskhadov, the former elected president of Chechnya, and warlord Shamil Basayev had ordered the ceasefire. It said all offensive actions were to be halted "as a display of goodwill". Moscow has not responded to the news. It has put millions of dollars on the heads of both men, whom it blames for atrocities like the Beslan siege. "We do not react to Kavkazcenter. This is not an...

Almost a month ago, Chechen rebels sent an open letter to the European Parliament complaining that Russians/pro Russian Chechens have kidnapped Maskhadov's relatives: Last week, Russian special services and criminal gangs, supported by the Kremlin and led by the notorious Chechen Kvisling, Kadyrov the younger, took as hostage in Grozny and other cities and villages the family of the President of the Chechen Republic Aslan Maskhadov. Among them are his brothers Lechi Maskhadov, 76 years old, Lyema Maskhadov, 68 years old, his sister Dzhovzhan Abdu1kadyrova (Maskhadova), 69 years old, and also two cousins: Adam Reshiev, 60 years old, and lkhvan...

GROZNY, November 23 (RIA Novosti) - A large-scale terrorist attack was averted in Ingushetia, a republic neighboring Chechnya. The attack was ordered by Chechen separatist leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov, spokesman for the North Caucasus antiterrorism headquarters Ilya Shabalkin said Tuesday. "Operatives from the republic's FSB and Interior Ministry obtained information that terrorists under Maskhadov and Basayev's command were preparing a new large terrorist attack in Ingushetia," Mr. Shabalkin said. He said that according to the plan, during a provocation, bandits wearing Russian solider uniforms would attack several public buildings and apartment houses with 120mm mortar and several large-caliber...

CHECHEN WARLORD WARNS OF NEW TERRORIST ATTACKS. Since masterminding the hostage-taking in the south Russian town of Budennovsk in the summer of 1995, radical Chechen field commander Shamil Basaev has claimed responsibility for a series of terrorist acts that have claimed hundreds of Russian lives. His ill-fated incursion into Daghestan in August 1999 in the wake of an unsuccessful attempt to sideline Chechen President Aslan Maskahdov served as the rationale for the Russian leadership to launch its second war against Chechnya in October of that year under the pretext of combating terrorism. Yet although Basaev is routinely reviled by leading...

GROZNY, Russia - Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov is ready to give up his separatist fight and is seeking a way to negotiate with the Kremlin on his surrender, a top Chechen security official said Friday. Maskhadov, a former Chechen president, is trying to make contact with the federal government, said Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya (news - web sites)'s first deputy prime minister. He said Maskhadov wants "to hold negotiations on how to disarm and surrender to the authorities." At the same time, Kadyrov, who also leads a regional security force, said he would do all he can to capture Maskhadov...

October 23, 2004 Chechen Rebel Leader Is Reported to Be Close to Surrendering By C. J. CHIVERS MOSCOW, Oct. 22 - The senior law enforcement official in Chechnya announced Friday that the authorities had nearly captured Aslan Maskhadov, one of the best-known leaders of the Chechen resistance, and that Mr. Maskhadov was planning to surrender soon. The announcement, made by the first deputy prime minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, in Grozny, the Chechen capital, underscored the sense of urgency driving the hunts for senior separatists. It also exposed the tension among the Russian security agencies conducting them. Mr. Kadyrov, the outspoken leader...

Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov supported the U.S.-led coalition's intervention into Iraq.

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...