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| Chechen President Dudayev celebrates 15 years at room temperature |
| 2012-04-24 |
| Video at link. Late in the evening of 21 April 1996, the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Gen. Dzhokhar Dudayev was martyred (Insha'Allah) as a result of a terrorist attack. Interesting backstory on the photo, if true. The rocket strike on Dudayev occurred while he was speaking on a satellite phone in a deserted locale near the village of Gekhi-Chu in western Chechnya.The Russian leadership hoped that by killing Dudayev, Chechen resistance will be broken and the war would be quickly wrapped up in favor of the occupational army. Dudayev was killed on April 21, 1996, by two laser-guided missiles when he was using a satellite phone, after his location was detected by a Russian reconnaissance aircraft, which intercepted his phone call. At the time Dudayev was reportedly talking to a liberal deputy of the Duma in Moscow, reportedly Konstantin Borovoy. Additional aircraft were dispatched (a Su-24MR and a Su-25) to locate Dudayev and fire a guided missile. Exact details of this operation were never released by the Russian government. Russian reconnaissance planes in the area had been monitoring satellite communications for quite some time trying to match Dudayev's voice signature to the existing samples of his speech. |
| Posted by:gromky |