 Occupation command reports of death of Chechen Republic Ichkeria's vice-president Shamil Basayev. No details have been reported. Referring to FSB, the Russian mass-media reported that Basayev dead during a certain special operation in Ingushetia. Earlier there was information about an explosion of a cargo vehicle KAMAZ in village of Ekazhevo, as a result of which 4 Mujahideen were dead. The Chechen command has not give any comments and statements yet.
Basayev was killed in an overnight operation by Russian special forces in the southern Russian province of Ingushetia in the volatile North Caucasus bordering Chechnya, where Russia is engaged in its second war against Chechen rebels in the past 11 years, Interfax and RIA Novosti said Monday. FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev reportedly announced the news but an FSB spokesman contacted by AFP said he was in a meeting with President Vladimir Putin and declined to confirm the information. The news agency quoted Patrushev as saying that Basayev was among a group of militants killed as they prepared to carry out an unspecified "terrorist act" in Ingushetia designed to compromise the Kremlin in the run-up to the Group of Eight summit later this week in Saint Petersburg. The agency reports said Putin had congratulated "all members of the special services who planned and executed this operation."
| I'm wondering if Shamil might have been one of the four bad guyz in that truck... |
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