Russia has been knocking off or detaining these big shots at a fairly consistent rate since Beslan, and by all accounts Abu Dzeit oversaw all of the nastiness in Ingushetia, though I believe there's some actual Ingush the Bad Guys use to give them some local flavor. Abu Hafs al-Urduni (if he's still alive, there's been conflicting reports on this one) or Abu Omar al-Saif are the Arab Big Cheezes in the North Caucasus now that Abu Walid al-Ghamdi is toes up.
Russian forces claim to have killed a key Al Qaeda member suspected to be involved in a school siege in which over 350 people, mainly children, were killed, Xinhua reported. Abu Dzeit was killed in an operation by Russian security forces in Ingushetia republic last week, Sergei Ignatchenko, a spokesman of the Federal Security Service, said Monday. He was suspected to be involved in the attack last September at a school in Beslan town of North Ossetia province near the troubled Russian republic of Chechnya.Dzeit, according to the spokesman, was involved in funding and planning several terrorist actions, including an armed attack on the Ingushetia interior ministry last summer. "We can say that with the elimination of Abu Dzeit, a channel of funding terrorists in the North Caucasus and the rest of Russia has been blocked," he said.
Ignatchenko said Dzeit and two accomplices were hiding in a village in Ingushetia. Troops raided the house where Dzeit was hiding in a bunker along with two associates. While the forces killed the associates, Dzeit blew himself up, Ignatchenko said. A large quantity of arms and ammunition was recovered from the bunker, which also had a mini-film studio and a laboratory for making explosives.
Investigations revealed that Dzeit, also known as Little Omar and Abu Omar, was the Al Qaeda representative in Ingushetia, distributing funds from the international terrorist network. Dzeit, who had received special training at Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, was also in charge of training suicide bombers.