The Russian anti-terrorism committee said Friday that an alleged warlord and four suspected The alleged warlord, Sherif Akhmedov, had been suspected of being “directly involved” in at least 20 terror-related attacks, including on police and other officials, as well as on a synagogue, in the past two years alone. After being tipped off, special forces surrounded the house in Derbent on the Caspian Sea and in an ensuing gunfight killed the suspects, who had refused to surrender.