CHECHNYAN REBEL RESPONSIBLE FOR SCHOOL MASACRE IS DEAD
Randy L. Harrington
July 10, 2006
MOSCOW—Shamil Basayev, the Chechnyan separatist terrorist who was best known for the massacre at a Russian school in 2003 was killed.
Moscow's most wanted man who made war on Russia for more than a decade was killed by Russian forces in the neighboring southern republic of Ingushetia.
Basayev is best known for the hostage taking at a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan in 2004. More than 330 people, including 145 children were killed by terrorists. Basayev was known to have bragged about planning attacks that killed hundreds of civilians.
The head of Russian Federal Security Service (used to be the KGB) said in a prepared statement “Last night in Ingushetia, a special operation was carried out during which Shamil Basayev and a whole group of bandits were wiped out.”
President Vladimir Putin said “This is a deserved retribution against the bandits for our children in Beslan, in Budennovsk, for all these acts of terror they committed in Moscow and other Russian regions.”
Budyonnovsk is a southern Russian town near Chechnya, it as the scene of a 1995 attack led by Basayev in which he seized a hospital with about 1,500 hostages.
Nikolai Patrushev the head of the Federal Security Service said that Basayev's group was planning “political pressure” that would coincide with the summit of leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations, hosted by Russia in St. Petersburg starting July 15.
SOURCES/CONTRIBUTORS: RUSSIAN NEWS; AP WIRE; REUTERS
Copyright 2006 Randy L. Harrington. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Moscow's most wanted man who made war on Russia for more than a decade was killed by Russian forces in the neighboring southern republic of Ingushetia.
Basayev is best known for the hostage taking at a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan in 2004. More than 330 people, including 145 children were killed by terrorists. Basayev was known to have bragged about planning attacks that killed hundreds of civilians.
The head of Russian Federal Security Service (used to be the KGB) said in a prepared statement “Last night in Ingushetia, a special operation was carried out during which Shamil Basayev and a whole group of bandits were wiped out.”
President Vladimir Putin said “This is a deserved retribution against the bandits for our children in Beslan, in Budennovsk, for all these acts of terror they committed in Moscow and other Russian regions.”
Budyonnovsk is a southern Russian town near Chechnya, it as the scene of a 1995 attack led by Basayev in which he seized a hospital with about 1,500 hostages.
Nikolai Patrushev the head of the Federal Security Service said that Basayev's group was planning “political pressure” that would coincide with the summit of leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations, hosted by Russia in St. Petersburg starting July 15.
SOURCES/CONTRIBUTORS: RUSSIAN NEWS; AP WIRE; REUTERS
Copyright 2006 Randy L. Harrington. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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