Posted on 04/16/2002 6:33:53 PM PDT by Spar
TERRORISM: Killing Khattab
April 16, 2002; On 11 April, the Interfax news agency cited an anonymous source in the Russian security services that the Jordanian warlord Khattab was killed as the result of an intelligence and combat operation by the FSB (Federal Security Service). During this un-dated operation, an Arab agent hired by a security service of an unnamed CIS states was employed to 'liquidate' Khattab.
Khattab has not been seen nor heard on the airwaves in the last two months.
Considering that there were repeated reports in 2001 and 2002 that the warlord had been killed, Aleksandr Kolosov (a senior officer of the Chechen Republic's FSB public relations group) told the press that they wouldn't be convinced until Khattab's body had been found and identified. - Adam Geibel
*If true
Mid-December 2001 fighting in Argun resulted in power shortages at Khankala and Grozny. Nurdin Usamov, the head of Chechnya's power company, said the disruption was caused by Russian troops who damaged plant equipment while trying to drive a rebel group from the town. Operations at TETs-4 weren't fully restored until 23 January 2002.
In addition to providing power to the Russian military base at Khankala and the capital, Grozny, Chechnya`s largest thermo-electric also provided electricity to a sugar plant and a construction materials plant. A shoe factory and clothes factory were going to be added to the grid in January 2002. There were also plans for a chain of dry-cleaners and an ice-cream factory. Unified Energy Systems of Russia had given 1.4 billion rubles ( $448,717,000) to restore the thermal power station. - Adam Geibel
For all practical purposes, Chechen Jihad is dead. That is my opinion.
90 year vacation is worth fighting for. Hopefully, next time, no Wahabbis :).
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