Police have killed in Chechnya contacts of rebel warlord Shamil Basayev, an army spokesman told Itar-Tass on Tuesday. Policemen who manned a check post near the settlement of Sernovodskoye tried to stop a car in which, according to operational information, a certain Turchayev rode. Turchayev was known to be one of leaders of the August 21 attack in Grozny. Gunmen opened fire on policemen from the car and were killed in a shootout.
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Two of them, Alikhan Vitayev and Anzor Machiyev, were emirs, or commanders, of a so-called Assinovskaya Wahhabi jamaat. They were contacts of Basayev and members of a band led by Ganiyev, who had been arrested earlier. The army spokesman said the killed rebels were involved in sabotage acts in Chechnya's Sunzhensky district. |