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Russia exulted in the death of a terrorist dubbed "the Russian Bin
Laden," yesterday claiming it has proof he was behind a deadly train
bombing last November that left 28 people dead.
By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
The Telegraph, UK
Sunday, March 7, 2010
The FSB intelligence service said a special forces operation had
resulted in the death of Sheikh Said Buryatsky, an Islamist convert
whose real name was Alexander Tikhomirov.
FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov told President Dmitry Medvedev said
that the operation in southern Russia last week had resulted in the
death of eight militants and the capture of ten.
The successful mission became a truimph when it appear that one of
Russia's most wanted men and the ideologue-in-chief of the Islamist
rebel movement in Chechnya and southern Russia was reported among the
dead.
Mr Bortnikov said Tikhomirov was the "odious" terrorist and his
officials said he had emerged as a Russian counterpart to Osama bin
Laden. He said Tikhomirov and his associates were behind the bombing
of the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and St. Petersburg last
November, an incident that left 28 people dead and 90 wounded. They
may also have been behind a similar attack on the same line in 2007,
he suggested.
"We have exposed a further 15 particularly serious crimes perpetrated
by this bandit group," he told the president. "We are talking about
the murders of policemen and the bombing of various key objects and
infrastructure." He said FSB troops found a bomb making factory in
the house in Ingushetia, southern Russia, where the terrorists had
been cornered.
Footage of the assault shows FSB special forces engaged in a fierce
gun battle with the militants. The FSB then appears to have fired
several tank rounds into the house to punch a giant hole in the wall.
Special forces have long been hunting Said Buryatsky, accusing him of
recruiting and training suicide bombers as well as taking part in
terror attacks himself. Videos on You Tube show him clad in
camouflage clutching an assault rifle while preaching radical Islam.
Violence in Russia's North Caucasus region in the Muslim-majority
republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan has been on the rise
in the last year as militants continue their struggle to create an
Islamist caliphate in the region. Doku Umarov, the Chechen rebel
leader, remains at large.
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