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Article: Russian police kill Chechen rebel leader
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2006
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GROZNY, Russia - Special operations police killed the top Chechen
rebel leader Saturday after receiving a tip about a terror attack in
Chechnya planned to coincide with the upcoming Group of Eight summit
in St. Petersburg.
Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev was shot in his hometown of Argun, east of
the Chechen capital, Grozny, after he resisted arrest, the town
police chief said.
The killing of Sadulayev - rebel leader for just over a year -
deals a blow to the Islamic-inspired insurgency and its efforts to
spread beyond Chechnya's borders to attack Russian forces across the
poverty-stricken and corruption-gripped south.
"The terrorists have been virtually beheaded. They have sustained
a severe blow, ...