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Chechen rebel leader Sadulayev killed
AP ^ | 06/17/06 | KAZBEK VAKHAYEV

Posted on 06/17/2006 2:55:17 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Chechen rebel leader Sadulayev killed

By KAZBEK VAKHAYEV, Associated Press Writer

30 minutes ago

The Chechen rebel leader was killed in a special police operation in his hometown on Saturday, authorities said.

Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev was killed in his hometown of Argun, a city nine miles east of Grozny. The press service of the Moscow-backed Chechen prime minister confirmed Russian media reports of his death.

The Interfax news agency quoted Muslim Khuchiyev, a minister in the local administration, as saying that police acted on a tip, tracked down Sadulayev and killed him when he offered resistance.

Further details of the operation were not immediately available.

"The terrorists have been virtually beheaded. They have sustained a severe blow, and they are never going to recover from it," the Interfax news agency quoted Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov as saying.

Sadulayev succeeded Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, who was killed by Russian forces last year. He had promoted efforts to spread the rebel movement beyond Chechnya's borders and attack Russian forces across the poverty-stricken and corruption-gripped south.

Ekho Moskvy radio said Russian prosecutors suspect he organized the 2001 kidnapping of American Kenneth Gluck, who was abducted while working in southern Russia for the aid group Doctors Without Borders. Gluck, of New York, was freed after 25 days.

The radio station also said Maskhadov had called Sadulayev the co-organizer of a 2004 raid on police and security installations in the Russian republic of Ingushetia, which killed some 90 people.

Sadulayev was relatively unknown outside rebel circles. He had served as a judge of the Chechen rebels' Shariat committee — an extension of the Islamic court established under Maskhadov when he was Chechnya's elected president in the 1990s

Chechnya's separatist movement initially was rooted in nationalist sentiment, but in recent years has taken on a growing Islamic cast.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assassination; caucasus; chechen; jihadi; rebel; russia; sadulayev; saidulayev; saidullayev; terrorist

The Deceased

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1 posted on 06/17/2006 2:55:23 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: Cindy

Ping!


2 posted on 06/17/2006 2:55:45 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Gucho; Godzilla; backhoe; piasa

Thanks for the ping TigerLikesRooster.
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3 posted on 06/17/2006 3:01:53 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I wonder if Zarq blew his cover?


4 posted on 06/17/2006 3:08:52 AM PDT by thoughtomator (A thread without a comment on immigration is not complete)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
This guy was a judge?

"Here come de judge, here come de juedge, look out below, here come de judge!"

5 posted on 06/17/2006 3:24:58 AM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: thoughtomator

"I knew I shouldn't have given my forwarding address to Zarqawi"


6 posted on 06/17/2006 3:31:40 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (The Left hates America)
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To: thoughtomator
I wonder if Zarq blew his cover?
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I expressed a similar thought on an earlier thread about Sadulayev's death.
7 posted on 06/17/2006 4:50:05 AM PDT by Cheburashka (World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

A sharia judge.
He decides what parts of your body get amputated.


8 posted on 06/17/2006 4:51:13 AM PDT by Cheburashka (World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Putin's Bin-Laden.


9 posted on 06/17/2006 4:53:30 AM PDT by SamAdams_Lite
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