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2004-03-02 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

More on Gelayev's possible removal from the gene pool ...

Russian authorities say they have killed Ruslan Gelayev, a top Chechen leader who has been fighting Russian troops in and around the restive Caucasus republic for more than four years. The body of a man who looked like Gelayev had been found in Dagestan, which borders war-torn Chechnya, after a fight that also left two border guards dead, law enforcement officials told Russian news agencies on Monday. Previously-captured Chechen fighters have identified the body, which was found without documents in western Dagestan, as that of Gelayev, who has eluded Russia's attempts to capture or kill him for years. Among Gelayev's most spectacular exploits was the taking of the Komsomolskoye village in Chechnya in March 2000, shortly after Russian troops drove rebels from the capital Grozny. After fierce fighting that lasted days, federal forces eventually recaptured the village, killing hundreds of fighters, but Gelayev escaped into the mountains from where he was reported since then to have staged isolated raids against Russian targets.

Posted by Dan Darling 2004-03-02 12:37:21 AM|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Looks like they got him:
Russia's NTV television showed a bearded corpse lying almost fully covered by a black plastic sheet on a metal table, as medical and military officers looked on. "We can say today with certainty that this is Gelayev's corpse. There is a wound on the leg that we knew about," said Sergei Ignatchenko, the main spokesman for the FSB, a successor agency to the Soviet KGB security force. "He also had with him his dagger, which we know he would never leave behind," he told Russian television channels. There was no confirmation or denial of the death from separatist news sources. Kommersant newspaper reported he was killed by border guards who recognized him as he was visiting his home village.

Posted by Steve 2004-3-2 10:13:42 AM|| 2004-3-2 10:13:42 AM|| Front Page Top

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