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Chechen Separatist Leader Killed
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=12A8540:3919ACA Authorities say
Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev killed during special police operation Chechen
separatist leader Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev has been killed by
pro-Russian forces during a special police operation.

The operation took place Saturday in Argun, near the Chechen capital,
Grozny. Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov said one of Sadulayev's
aides sold information about his whereabouts to police.

Mr. Kadyrov also said Chechen militants were plotting a terror attack
in Argun ahead of the Group of Eight summit set for St. Petersburg in
July.

The head of Russia's Federal Security Service, Nikolai Patrushev, says
an FSB agent and a police officer were killed during the operation.

Sadulayev succeeded Aslan Maskhadov as president of Chechnya's
breakaway government after Maskhadov was killed in March 2005 in a
raid by Russian forces.

The Russian republic of Chechnya has been plagued by a decade of
bloody fighting between separatists and Russian government forces.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters. 


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