Report: Chechen Islamic terrorist dies in blast set by Russian agents
The Jihadist Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for the Beslan school attack in 2004, in which 331 people, half of them children, were killed.
FSS Director Nikolai Patrushev said Monday that Basayev was planning an attack to coincide with the G8 summit of world leaders this weekend in Russia.
The operation was in Ingushetia -- a republic bordering Chechnya -- in which Basayev was killed early Monday.
Russian agents exploded a truck bomb next to several cars in which Basayev and other rebels were riding, according to the Interfax news agency, quoting Ingush Deputy Prime Minister Bashir Aushev.
"This is retaliation he deserves for killing our children in Beslan, Budennovsk, all the terrorist acts his jihadis perpetrated in Moscow and other regions of Russia, including Ingushetia and the Chechen Republic," Patrushev said in an Interfax report.
A Chechen Web site quoted a rebel commander as saying Basayev's death was caused by an "accidental spontaneous explosion of a cargo vehicle with explosives," not Russian security agents.
Law enforcement officials in Ingushetia told Interfax that Basayev's body was in pieces but was identified by his head and by the fact that he had earlier lost a foot.
Twelve other Chechen terrorists were killed in the operation, the officials said.
I'll bet he wasn't even read his rights or represented by a court appointed attorney. Congressional Democrats will doubtless demand hearings by this time tomorrow.
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