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Article: Chechen rebel leader killed by Russian forces
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- June 18, 2006
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By Kazbek Vakhayev
GROZNY, Russia -- Special operations police killed the top Chechen rebel leader yesterday 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 insurgency and its efforts to spread beyond Chechnya's borders to attack Russian forces across the poverty-stricken and corruption-gripped south.
An intelligence agent and a police officer also were killed in the operation, ...