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April 18, 2004
Leader of Chechen Arabs Killed
Al Arabiya: Top Arab Militant in Chechnya Killed
DUBAI: Arab television station Al Arabiya said on Sunday that the leader of Arab fighters in Chechnya, Saudi-born Abu al-Waleed al-Ghamdi, had been killed in the rebel Russian region.

An official at Dubai-based Al Arabiya said the channel received the news from sources close to Ghamdi’s family in Saudi Arabia who declined to give any details except that the family was receiving condolences.

Abu al-Waleed is said by the Kremlin to be among those behind February’s bombing in Moscow.

In March, Arab television channel Al Jazeera broadcast videotape it said was by Abu al-Waleed vowing to stage a new wave of attacks inside Russia.

The Kremlin blames Chechen rebels for a spate of attacks including a suicide bombing which killed close to 50 people on a train in southern Russia before last December’s parliamentary polls and the attack on the underground, which killed around 40.

The Kremlin believes Abu al-Waleed was also among those behind the 1999 apartment bombings across Russia that prompted President Vladimir Putin to send troops back into Chechnya.

Posted by Nathan Hamm at April 18, 2004 11:57 PM | TrackBack
Comments

I love the smell of muslim blood in the morning.

Smells like VICTORY!!!

Posted by: Daniel Polwarth at April 19, 2004 08:33 AM

As my esteemed co-blogger points out on his own site, the biggest effect that this will really have is in the money realm. The Chechens are pretty good at creating problems on their own.

Posted by: Nathan at April 19, 2004 06:29 PM

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