Kingpin
02-13-2004, 07:31 AM
Actually he was only vice-president during Dudaev time and only short time was acting president after Dudaev assasination. But anyway it is not bad news.
CNN) -- A former Chechen president linked by the U.N. to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror network has died in a hospital in Qatar from wounds suffered in a car explosion.
Separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev had lived for three years in exile in the Persian Gulf emirate, which had recently come under pressure from Russia to extradite the former separatist leader to Moscow.
Friday's explosion happened near Yandarbiyev's home in the affluent Dafna neighborhood of the Qatari capital Doha.
Two bodyguards taken with him to Hamad Medical Hospital were ****ounced dead on arrival, The Associated Press quoted an unnamed hospital official as saying.
Considered a hard-line supporter for Chechnya's complete independence from Russia, Yandarbiyev served as vice president of Chechyna's rebel government before becoming president in April 1996, when former leader Dzhokhar Dudayev was killed by a Russian Army rocket attack.
A month later he signed an agreement with Russian President Boris Yeltsin to end the Chechen war, but the treaty failed to resolve the independence issue and the fighting continued.
-- From CNN's Caroline Faraj in Dubai
CNN) -- A former Chechen president linked by the U.N. to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror network has died in a hospital in Qatar from wounds suffered in a car explosion.
Separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev had lived for three years in exile in the Persian Gulf emirate, which had recently come under pressure from Russia to extradite the former separatist leader to Moscow.
Friday's explosion happened near Yandarbiyev's home in the affluent Dafna neighborhood of the Qatari capital Doha.
Two bodyguards taken with him to Hamad Medical Hospital were ****ounced dead on arrival, The Associated Press quoted an unnamed hospital official as saying.
Considered a hard-line supporter for Chechnya's complete independence from Russia, Yandarbiyev served as vice president of Chechyna's rebel government before becoming president in April 1996, when former leader Dzhokhar Dudayev was killed by a Russian Army rocket attack.
A month later he signed an agreement with Russian President Boris Yeltsin to end the Chechen war, but the treaty failed to resolve the independence issue and the fighting continued.
-- From CNN's Caroline Faraj in Dubai