Article: Chechen Rebel Leader Sadulayev Killed

KAZBEK VAKHAYEV, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
06-17-2006
Dateline: GROZNY, Russia
The Chechen rebel leader was killed in a special police operation in his hometown on Saturday, authorities said.

Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev was killed in his hometown of Argun, a city nine miles east of Grozny. The press service of the Moscow-backed Chechen prime minister confirmed Russian media reports of his death.

The Interfax news agency quoted Muslim Khuchiyev, a minister in the local administration, as saying that police acted on a tip, tracked down Sadulayev and killed him when he offered resistance.

Further details of the operation were not immediately available.

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