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Former Chechen Leader Yandarbiyev Boomed
2004-02-13
Former Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, an Islamic extremist linked by Moscow to al Qaeda, died on Friday from injuries sustained when his car was hit by a blast in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar, police said.
I always like starting the morning with good news.
The blast seriously injured Yandarbiyev, who died later in the intensive care unit at Hamad Hospital in the capital Doha, and killed two people traveling with him.
A triple! Wonder who the other two are, er, were?
The cause of the explosion was still unclear.
He was a big shot, so I’d rule out work accident.
A hospital spokesman told Reuters Yandarbiyev was leaving a mosque after Friday prayers in Doha’s northern Dasma district when the blast occurred.
That seems to happen a lot, doesn’t it?
Al Jazeera television showed pools of blood beside the charred remains of a white off-road vehicle and bodies covered with sheets being taken away by ambulance as a police sniffer dog circled the wreck.
Sigh, it’s a beautiful word picture.
Yandarbiyev, who had been living in exile in Doha for more than three years, was the first Chechen separatist to be added at Russia’s request last year to a U.N. list of groups and people with suspected ties to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network. Russia, which has been battling separatist insurgents in predominantly Muslim Chechnya on and off for nearly a decade with the loss of tens of thousands of lives, considered him a leading Islamic extremist. Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov told Interfax news agency: "Yandarbiyev was the chief ideologue of the separatists and later of their terrorist organizations which brought such tragic consequences to Chechnya. "You will find no one (in Chechnya) who will regret what happened to Yandarbiyev."
"Maybe his Mom, but she's been dead for years. He shot her."
Kadyrov, elected in polls organized by Moscow last year as part of a plan to stabilize the region, would not say who might have been responsible for Yandarbiyev’s death. "Thousands of people, whose relatives had died or suffered as a result of Yandarbiyev’s actions, might have had a reason to do this," Kadyrov said.
"Reach out, reach out and touch someone!"
Moscow suspects Yandarbiyev of links to the seizure of a Moscow theater and 700 theatergoers by extreme Chechen rebels in October 2002. The seizure ended with the death of 129 hostages and 41 guerrillas when Russian troops stormed the building using a lethal gas. He has been on the Interpol wanted list since 2001 along with Maskhadov and other prominent Chechen rebels.
KGB hit, perhaps? Internal power struggle? Oh, well, he’s dead either way.
Posted by:Steve

#5  Sounds like our Russian cousins reached out and touched someone. Think they'd contract out?
Posted by: tu3031   2004-2-13 10:16:41 PM  

#4  
Yandarbiyev was leaving a mosque ... when the blast occurred.


When that mosque issues its "religious materials" it ought to also issue instructions for proper handling.
Posted by: Mike Sylwester   2004-2-13 12:43:20 PM  

#3  From Islam Online: A Qatari Interior Ministry source told the official Qatar News Agency that Yandarbiyev was killed and his 13-year-old son wounded when a bomb blast targeted their car as they returned from weekly prayers at a Doha mosque. Another source at Al-Hamad hospital, where Yandarbiyev succumbed to serious injuries sustained in the blast, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that his son, Daoud, was in stable condition.
Qatar's Al-Jazeera news channel earlier said two bodyguards were killed in the attack. But the hospital official said there were no dead bodyguards and the Interior Ministry statement made no mention of bodyguards.
A witness has told AFP that the blast occurred in the Al-Dafna residential area at 1:00 pm (1000 GMT) and the ex-Chechen leader's four-wheel drive vehicle was burned by the explosion.

Posted by: Steve   2004-2-13 10:59:34 AM  

#2  A bomb in car to get an islamopig ? Someone is learning fast. A good education is the strength of every society...or: live and learn and then pay back.
Posted by: Poitiers-Lepanto   2004-2-13 10:20:59 AM  

#1  Additional from al-Jaz:
Former Chechen President Salim Khan Yandarbiyev has died after a car bomb attack in Qatar. The explosion in Doha on Friday also killed two of the bodyguards travelling with him. Police have not given any details except to confirm the death and identity of the former separatist leader.
Posted by: Steve   2004-2-13 10:02:12 AM  

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