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shrike · Jul 10, 2006, 03:02 pm

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsAr...IA-BASAYEV.xml

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, Russia's most wanted man, was killed on Monday, handing a huge boost to President Vladimir Putin as he prepared to host a Group of Eight summit.
FSB security agency chief Nikolai Patrushev said Basayev, who had claimed responsibility for the bloody 2004 Beslan school siege, had been about to mount an attack in southern Russia to mar the weekend G8 summit Putin will chair in St Petersburg.
Putin, whose already huge popularity at home will be further boosted by the news as he prepares to meet President Bush and other world leaders, said Basayev's death was "deserved retribution" for a campaign of killing.
More than 331 people, half of them children, were killed in the Beslan school siege in September 2004. Russian forces stormed the school, which had been seized by Islamist militants linked to Chechnya's fight for independence.
"This is deserved retribution against the bandits for our children in Beslan ... for all these acts of terror they committed in Moscow and other Russian regions," Putin said in televised comments.
Patrushev said Basayev, along with other Chechen fighters, was killed in an operation by special forces in Ingushetia, a region neighboring Chechnya.
"They intended to use this terrorist act to put pressure on Russia's leadership at a time when the G8 summit was being held," said Patrushev.
Officials said Basayev was killed when his group's explosive-laden truck blew up. They said they found fragments of Basayev's prosthetic leg and his head, with its distinctive beard.

rmnunez · Jul 10, 2006, 05:18 pm

Wonderful for Putin, I can just imagine how much better an outlook he has going into this summit, maybe they're turning the corner on this Chechen "insurgency", any progress against wholesale infanticide is good for everyone.

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Basayev was killed when his group's explosive-laden truck blew up. They said they found fragments of Basayev's prosthetic leg and his head, with its distinctive beard.

I hope is explosive end suggests among his followers the senseless of their ways.

Rainbow · Jul 12, 2006, 05:28 pm

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, Russia's most wanted man, was killed on Monday, handing a huge boost to President Vladimir Putin as he prepared to host a Group of Eight summit.

Officials said Basayev was killed when his group's explosive-laden truck blew up. They said they found fragments of Basayev's prosthetic leg and his head, with its distinctive beard.

Yet another has just enrolled for life-time vacation.
That is a good news.

rmnunez · Jul 12, 2006, 09:42 pm

I hope he gets his promised precious 72 pale raisins or currants.

Rainbow · Jul 20, 2006, 03:43 pm

Off Topic
I am not sure about those 72 devoted ones, but it makes me think it refers to time (read : clock), in reality.
Whether it is 72 within 3 days (24 hours X 3, which means 72 hours, in total), or 3 in an hour (which means 3 devoted ones in one hour), what makes 72 ones within 1 day, in total, I am not so certain.
Did they have and/or develop a clock, in those times (when it was originally written) ?

Jul 12, 2006, 09:42 pm	#4 (permalink) (top)
rmnunez Volcanic Erupter Location: Mexico City Posts: 4,772	I hope he gets his promised precious 72 pale raisins or currants. Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum. Raúl M. Núñez Sheriff

Jul 20, 2006, 03:43 pm	#5 (permalink) (top)
Rainbow Volcanic Erupter Posts: 3,131	Off Topic I am not sure about those 72 devoted ones, but it makes me think it refers to time (read : clock), in reality. Whether it is 72 within 3 days (24 hours X 3, which means 72 hours, in total), or 3 in an hour (which means 3 devoted ones in one hour), what makes 72 ones within 1 day, in total, I am not so certain. Did they have and/or develop a clock, in those times (when it was originally written) ?