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| Caucasus |
| Basayev’s associate killed in Chechnya |
| 2003-01-04 |
| A rebel by the name of Shamsudi Sapiyev, also known as Malysh (in Russian: Little One) who is believed to be a close associate of the notorious Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, has been eliminated in Chechnya. Sapiyev headed a rebel gang active in the Shali district of the republic. Hope he stays dead. These reports have a habit of being... exaggerated. As a spokesman for the regional operation headquarters in charge of the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Ilya Shabalkin told the press on Saturday, the 21-year-old Sapiyev was eliminated a day earlier during a special raid carried by the FSB [Federal Security Service] units and the Interior Troops. Shabalkin noted that Sapiyev commanded an armed group comprising young men under 20 years of age. Furthermore, the field commander exhorted younger children, teenagers between 12 and 15, to participate in criminal activity. So he was the commander of the |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |