(RIA Novosti) - A suspected aide to the notorious terrorist Khattab has surrendered to police in Chechnya, the North Caucasus republic's law enforcement agencies said Monday. The Jordanian-born Khattab was directly involved in preparing and perpetrating a series of attacks in southern Russia.An amnesty for fighters who surrendered was announced July 15, after the killing of the region's number one terrorist, Shamil Basayev, and promised leniency for militants not involved in major atrocities. About 300 militants have accepted the surrender offer since its announcement, most of them in Chechnya, according to Nikolai Patrushev, head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and the National Antiterrorism Committee. The amnesty was initially valid until August 1, but the deadline was later extended to September 30.
"The [suspected] militant turned himself in to a police station in Gudermes," a spokesman said. "The native of the village of Isti-Su has confessed that he took part in an attack on the town of Gudermes in 2001, while a member of Khattab's gang."