And it’s about damned time too, but well done to the Russians!!! 😎
Russia kills most-wanted warlord
Monday, July 10, 2006 Posted: 1621 GMT (0021 HKT)
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Manage Alerts | What Is This? MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) — Russia’s most wanted man, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, has been killed by the country’s special forces, the state security chief has told President Vladimir Putin.
FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev said on Monday that Basayev, who claimed responsibility for the 2004 Beslan school attack in which 331 people, half of them children, were killed, was planning an attack to coincide with Russia hosting the G8 summit of world leaders this weekend.
CNN’s Matthew Chance said the killing was a massive victory for the security services and a huge blow for the rebel leadership.
So much for the Russian Spec Op’s not knowing what they are doing eh??? :rolleyes:
By: worthyone - 11th July 2006 at 23:22
U do realise NOT EVERY CHECHEN hates the Russians…just like NOT EVERY IRAQI HATES THE AMERICANS?
By: Sauron - 11th July 2006 at 23:03
The threat didn’t die. There are still millions of people in the region who hate the Russians and they are very much alive. For the Russians its like what having the State of Maine in revolt would be for the U.S.
Sauron
By: ELP - 11th July 2006 at 11:18
Wow. Pretty good GWOT. Russia says they are going after something and the threat dies.
We say we are going after Osama, and he is left alive as a boogy man that is always out there in the shadows. Our GWOT funding recipients need Osama alive, not dead, so they continue to get more funding.
By: Khazaria - 11th July 2006 at 09:50
kaboom boom!
although now its a battle of credits.. Russkies wanting to say they killed him.. Chechen rebels claiming it was a mere accident
By: lukeylad - 11th July 2006 at 09:28
Well at first both sides said it was an accedent with explosives that were in the convoy. but then the russians changed there story saying that special forces attacked the convoy, but i think it may have been an air attack by a mil-24 or su-25 as pieces of rocket have been found in the area.
By: Sauron - 10th July 2006 at 22:29
Well that is good news.
Did the Russian security forces get him or did he die in an accident?
Sauron
By: holty - 10th July 2006 at 22:14
for a moment i thought this was going to be a thread about ‘Roman Abramovic’, lol!!!
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