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2013-07-14 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Russia Says It Killed Bodyguard Of Leading Muslim Insurgent
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[Jpost] The bodyguard of Russia's most wanted bad boy was killed by security forces on Saturday, officials said, as Moscow tries to curb militancy in its Caucasus region before it hosts the Winter Olympics near there in February.
Russian authorities said Mikhail Musikhanov, killed along with another bully boy in a shootout in Ingushetia's Sunzha region, was the personal bodyguard of rebel leader  Doku Count Doku Umarov
... Self-styled first emir of the Caucasus Emirate. Count Doku has announced that his forces will not target civilians, but qualified that statement by saying there aren't any civilians in Russia...
who has vowed to use "maximum force" to prevent President Vladimir Putin
 ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
staging the 2014 Games in Sochi.
"The criminals tried to break through the security cordon. As a result of the ensuing gunfire their resistance was crushed and the bandidos were neutralized," Russia's Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAK) said in a statement.
Since 2011, 29-year-old Musikhanov was part of the inner circle of Umarov, leader of the outlawed Caucasus Emirate, accompanying him everywhere as his bodyguard, NAK said. 
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