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| Basayev associated captured in Dagestan |
| 2006-04-14 |
| An associate of Russia's most wanted terrorist has been arrested in the southern region of Daghestan, local police said Thursday. A local Interior Ministry spokesman said the militant had been involved in terrorist attacks in 1999 alongside Shamil Basayev, who has claimed responsibility for a string of bloody attacks in Russia including the Beslan school tragedy, which claimed the lives of 331 people. The spokesman said the militant, a resident of Chechnya's south-eastern Nozhai-Yurt district, which borders on Daghestan, was detained in a joint operation by regional police and Federal Security Service (FSB) officers while trying to infiltrate Daghestan from Chechnya. The militant led police to a hidden arms cache, including a Kalashnikov automatic rifle, bullets, and an under-barrel grenade launcher with ten rounds of ammunition, police said. |
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