Chechen Leader Killed in Car Bomb

[XASA]

Looks like the Russians can still take care of business:

February 13, 2004
Former Chechen Leader Killed in Car Explosion in Qatar
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 8:54 a.m. ET

DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Former Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, wanted in Russia for terrorist ties and linked to al-Qaida, died Friday after an explosion ripped apart his car in the Qatari capital, the Interior Ministry said.

Yandarbiyev, also a poet and children's author, was killed in the blast, which also injured his 13-year-old son, an official at the ministry told the Qatar News Agency.

A doctor at Hamad General Hospital said Yandarbiyev died en route, and his son was in critical condition.

They were the only two people brought to the hospital, the doctor said. Earlier, another official at the hospital had said earlier that two bodyguards were dead on arrival.

The Interior Ministry was investigating the incident, the news agency said. The Russian Embassy had no immediate comment.

Russia has been seeking the extradition of Yandarbiyev, who has been living in Qatar for more than three years. He was considered a key link in the Chechen rebels' finance network, channeling funds from abroad.

His death came one week after a bomb exploded in Moscow's subway, killing at least 41 people and injuring more than 100 others in a suicide attack that President Vladimir Putin blamed on Chechen separatist rebels.

Boris Labusov, a spokesman for Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, a top KGB successor, said his agency had no involvement in Yandarbiyev's death, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency.

Arab satellite channels Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya reported that two people were killed in the explosion.

Al-Jazeera said the explosion occurred after Yandarbiyev had prayed at a mosque in the upscale residential area of al-Dafnah, a northern suburb of Doha. He got into his private car, and the explosion went off at a road intersection 300 yards away.

The station showed a badly mangled and burned SUV, with only its white fender still recognizable. Security forces and a sniffer dog worked the area as a body, wrapped in white sheet, was loaded into a waiting ambulance.

Born in 1952, Yandarbiyev became vice president of the Russian republic of Chechnya under separatist president Dzhokhar Dudayev, and served as acting president of de facto independent Chechnya in 1996-97. He headed the rebel delegation to talks with then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin and then Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin in 1996.

Yandarbiyev opened a Chechen embassy in Kabul and a consulate in Kandahar during the reign of the hard-line Taliban militia.

The United Nations last year put Yandarbiyev on a list of people with alleged links to the al-Qaida terrorist network. The U.S. government also put Yandarbiyev on a list of international terrorists subject to U.S. financial sanctions.

Russian forces withdrew from Chechnya in 1996 after a disastrous 20-month war with rebels, leaving the republic largely lawless and running its own affairs. Troops swept in again in 1999 after Chechnya-based militants launched raids into a neighboring region and after some 300 people were killed in apartment building explosions that Russian officials blamed on Chechen separatists.

Yandarbiyev was a nationalist poet and children's book author, and he became one of the most prominent proponents of radical Islam among the rebels. He came in third in de facto independent Chechnya's 1997 presidential elections, behind moderate Aslan Maskhadov and fiery rebel Shamil Basayev.

[UkrainianAmerican]

Now what would a chechen freedom fighter do in Qatar?
/sarcasm

[Dalleer]

Now what would a chechen freedom fighter do in Qatar?

I'm sure he was just sightseeing...

[16 OBr SpN]

That ****er deserved a much painful death.
I hope that camel ****er burns in hell along with his "40 virgins"!

[Sergei]

Now what would a chechen freedom fighter do in Qatar?

I'm sure he was just sightseeing...

More like channeling money for the "fighters of Allah" in Chechnya. I highly doubt this is the work of FSB, probably some internal clan dealings, he got a bigger cut of the stash and those left without money decided to get rid of him.

regards,

[Trigger]

Al-Jazeera said the explosion occurred after Yandarbiyev had prayed at a mosque in the upscale residential area of al-Dafnah, a northern suburb of Doha. He got into his private car, and the explosion went off at a road intersection 300 yards away.

I guess he didn't pray hard enough. How.......unfortunate. ;)

[usa320]

Remember after the moscow train bombing president Bush stated that we would do whatever he could to work with Russia to hunt down and punish the perpetrators?

Remember the Al Queda station chief in Yemen who's car suddenly exploded?

Sounds like the guy got the better end of a Predator's hellfire.

He desrves it. Hes a very, very bad man. Id be shocked if this WASNT the work of the CIA...though i guess the FSB would have the same capabilities.

[Russian Texan]

CIA? :lol:

Why not Mossad or Mi6? :)

Chances are it was an internal financial dispute. It happened before when Chechen warlords would fight each other for money and quite frequently those arguments involved weapons.

It is also believed that the guy was the mastermind behind "Nord-Ost" hostage taking.

[anonymous individual]

Interesting post. woot

[usa320]

Who cares who dun it...good thing here is he got it...

[Shake n Bake]

good for you Russia

[Falco]

There is one way of doing it.

[GazB]

Would have been much more useful to have this guy in Moscow for a "chat" though. Perhaps someone heard he was close to getting extradited and didn't want him to squeal?

Live by the sword...

[Truthsayer]

Yes, thank god someone has the nervous to build bombs and kill people in other countries.

[usa320]

Yes, thank god someone has the nervous to build bombs and kill people in other countries.

Not only did this guy carry out car bombings in Russia, but he was responsible for the Nord-Ost theatre takeover that resulted in hundreds of deaths.

I dont care if your ass thinks bombing his ass was a bad thing to do. because i think i speak for the rest of us- the civilized folk, when i say justice has been done for the hundreds of innocent civilians and Russian soldiers this guy has killed.

What goes around, comes around.

[SeanAshi]

Did the Russians ever get that chechen terrorist long dark beard, don't remember his name but some called him the bin laden of checnya....But maybe it was spontaneous combustion?

[RomanS]

May the mother ****er rott in hell, and always eat rotten pork.

I hope the ****er would come back to live and come see me.

Next we must ****in kill movladi udugov

[RomanS]

ANd the message to the rest of the animals .

We will ****in kill you all.

Russia is not a country to **** with.

Всех блядь алах акбаровцев завалим.

эти бородатые пидоры будут стоять у нас на коленях, умоляя нас о пощаде.

Хуй им в рот, этим вшивым псам, мы волков ебали, рвали, и будим разрывать до последнего падонка.

Слава России!

[Tommy Gunn]

I agree that this Jihadi had to die, but a car bomb is just the wrong way to go about it. There is too much of a chance for collateral damage. People who use such tactics are no better than the terrorists.

My thinking is that a gun, a knife, or garrotte would have been more humane as only the target would have been destroyed.

[Uninen]

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2004/WORLD/meast/02/13/qatar.chechen/story.yandarbiyev.jpg
Dead. :)

Here some vids from his pals..

http://www.*********.com/chechenya.html

May they ALL DIE. :fork:

(In a painful, prolonged way..)

[SeanAshi]

I just viewed those videos, I feel nothing but rage.....Hunt them Chechen terrorist down, no mercy, no sympathy.

[Uninen]

I just viewed those videos, I feel nothing but rage.....Hunt them Chechen terrorist down, no mercy, no sympathy.

Good for you! There was those two vids that i didnt even watch.. (I suppose you know what i mean..) :fork:

Oh yeah and: The shell shocked trooper.. his murderer is Arab "mujahedin", quite famed one, and his wanted around the globe for terrorist acts he has done, i just cant remember his name right now.. (maybe something like Amir Al-Kahad..) anyhow.. good for Russians, they have nailed his ass now.. :) (you can see him and learn this fact at least from "Greetings From Grozny")

[sethen]

I think his name is Emir Al-Khattab. If this is the right guy, he is already dead. FSB assasinated him with a poisoned letter.

[Uninen]

I think his name is Emir Al-Khattab. If this is the right guy, he is already dead. FSB assasinated him with a poisoned letter.

Yeah.. i think that thats the guy.. and like i said.. his killed now..

*Edit*

that is if his other arm was "disabled" or shot off before..

[mustamato]

Here some vids from his pals..

http://www.*********.com/chechenya.html

Just the names of the clips makes me not want to watch them. The chechens
are quite strange when they videotape and then spread them on the Internet,
it is not like you actually get a lot of sympathies for their cause when watching
that sick ****.

Combat is one thing, but executions and torture is just too much.

[Uninen]

They arent called as terrorists or as animals for nothing.. :fork:

[navylt]

We went on lock down shortly after the explosion. I wasn't heading into downtown Doha anyway, but I can't go now. Some of our security guys here said the site of the explosion was cleaned within 90 minutes; as though nothing had happened.

Everyone forgot to mention that the UN, not the US, noted that this Chechen was Al Qaeda. It was a beautiful wet job by the Russians. As for his son, he was not in critical condition, rather he was in stable condition. Definitely a quality kill.

God bless the Russians!

[SeanAshi]

One thing that pisses me off, Muslims murder in the name of God, Jews, Christians do not.

[mustamato]

One thing that pisses me off, Muslims murder in the name of God, Jews, Christians do not.

Are you serious? Ever heard of the Shatila and Sabra massacres in the 1980´s?
Just one out of thousands of examples I could give you.

[perdurabo]

One thing that pisses me off, Muslims murder in the name of God, Jews, Christians do not.
or remember crusades? or inqusition? :)
hmm
what about buddist? i didn't heard about buddist religion wars :)

[SeanAshi]

Yes Christians murdered the Palestinians but not in the name of God,

or remember crusades? or inqusition? I'm refering to modern times

[mustamato]

Yes Christians murdered the Palestinians but not in the name of God,

or remember crusades? or inqusition? I'm refering to modern times

Oh man, you should really pick up a book and try to learn
something. You really just make a ass of yourself with your illiteracy.

http://www.agencevu.com/fr/photographes/default.asp?Photographes=7
Is 1999 modern enough for you? From christian/moslem riots in Indonesia, the pics
below, showing a cut of head, some dude eating a cut of leg etc.

[SeanAshi]

make an ass of my self on the computer? not like it matters right?
I suppose you have never said anything stupid in your life mustamato?
I retract my statement...feel better now?....But back to the Chechen terrorist....I wished I didn't view some of those clips, the one of the Chechens standing on the Russian Soldiers head then cutting his throat with a knife, brutal.......speechles

[SeanAshi]

http://www.diacritica.com/sobaka/dossier/images/23432ljk342lj.jpg


Name: Ibn-ul-Khattab
Location: Chechnya
Affiliation: Chechen rebel army
Profession: soldier, mercenary, aspiring movie producer
Born: 1969
Died: March 19, 2002
Claim to Fame: great hair
Body Count: hundreds
Other: real name: Samir Saleh Abdullah Al-Suwailem

Samir Saleh Abdullah Al-Suwailem, alias Ibn-ul-Khattab, the Russians' favourite foreign mujahid fighting in Chechnya, was reported to have been killed fighting in Konduz, Afghanistan, along with Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader Djuma Namangani. The rumour turned out to be false. Khattab was nowhere near Afghanistan, and the Russians knew it all along. A few months later they bribed a Chechen messenger into taking out Khattab with a ****ytrapped letter containing a poisonous agent. Chechen sources confirmed his death as occuring on or about March 19, 2002.
Though a few overexcited freelancers claimed to know who the emir under the bedsheet was, the true identity, country of origin - even the real name of the self-proclaimed Commander of the Foreign Mujahedin in Chechnya - remained a mystery. Khattab claimed to be thirty years of age, though other accounts had him closer to thirty-five. He said that he was born in Saudi Arabia to wealthy, Bedouin parents. Others pegged him as one "Habib Abdel Rahman Khatab", born to Chechen parents in the small diaspora that lives in Jordan.

All of it was finally settled when his brother broke the silence to Arab News after his death. His real name was Samir Saleh Abdullah Al-Suwailem, and he was born in the Saudi Arabian border town of Arar in the hippie solstice of 1969. He was, to hear his brother's rose-tinted view of their childhood, a nice, sensitive boy who often wept for no reason and liked to fix cars and run errands for strangers. He was highly intelligent and his parents hoped he would go to America to study medicine. He went to Afghanistan to kill Russians instead.

Khattab left home to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan at the age of 17, an exceptionally young age among the foreign volunteers recruited with the CIA's assistance. In Afghanistan he drank curdled milk with Osama bin Laden, traded pogs with Taleban leader Mullah Omar and blew two fingers off when tossing a homemade grenade. Khattab was also distinguished for an exceptional streak of cruelty. Most mujahids would use Soviet prisoners as bargaining chips. Khattab would expedite the process by leaving their corpses near the local base, with their throats ripped out.

Khattab claimed to have fought for the fundamentalists in Tajikistan from 1993-95, when he discovered Chechnya and the great opportunity to kill Russians in their own land.

He posed as a television reporter to get to know people. Along the way he met Shamil Basayev, a famous Chechen commander and the most wanted man in Russia. The latter hasn't been the same ever since. Khattab spurred on Basayev to send a battalion of their homegrown fundamentalist army into the neighbouring Russian province of Dagestan in 1999, a disaster which led to the massive Russian invasion of Chechnya five months later.

In the present war, outside of a few high-profile stunts, Khattab and his Arab volunteers didn't distinguish themselves at all. How do we know? Like another Saudi-born fugitive of note, Khattab was an amateur movie producer, with the rather morbid habit of videotaping all of his battles (one story had him praying for the soul of one martyred cameraman, then making sure to secure the video tape before beating a retreat).

Among his most popular films is one Khattab shot in April of 1996, highlighting the aftermath of a bloody Chechen ambush of a Russian column in which Khattab tosses his long, curly hair over his shoulders and poses with some of the 50-odd charred corpses.


One evil bastard.

[Truthsayer]

What goes around, comes around.

Yeah, that is what I'm counting on.

To bad it's going to hurt civilians again - since the ones in power hide behind the protection of the soldiers.

[usa320]

Oh shut up you moron.

There wont be peace until each and every one of these terrorists gets shot dead or blown to pieces...then peace will be a possibilty. But there wont be peace as long as terrorists, dictators and extremists are around.

As for the earlier comments about a car bombing- it could have just as well been a missile strike, or hit with a heavy weapon...

[SeanAshi]

What kind of poison did they use to kill Khattab?

since the ones in power hide behind the protection of the soldiers.

More like the the terrorist, hide behind the women and children.

There was those two vids that i didnt even watch
One of the exectuion videos I only saw about 4 seconds before I turned it off, I couldn't watch..to disturbing

[RomanS]

those videos were most likely spread by Russians.

Chechens will not post this kind of ****, this will ruin their whole idea of looking innocent and strugling for freedom.

Most of the tapes we recieved were either droped to us by the nearest blockpost, found in the collection of western and horror movies in some village, or even secretly bought by undercover Federals on the markets all over Chechnya.

There use to be slavery market in Gudermes, near Sunja road. Where you could buy a women, man, whoever. There were also guns for sale, amunition and even tapes with executions and tortures done by the brave beards.

A lot of times after a sucsesful ambushes on groups of Chechens, mercs and recon groups, our units would find tons of tapes in their Jansport packpacks.

Think about this - In our MVD archives there are estimately 217+ hours of this nasty ****. All for evidence. Mostly executions, beheadings, sawing off heads, choping off heads, sliting throats, shooting in the neck, in the head, in the balls. All the nasty **** recorded for the evidence to use against them later.

But you will never see the mudjaheds posting this **** on their ****oganda sites. The reason they record it is so they can show it off to their sponsors how brutal and how serious they are. Its just funny to see when they start crying and begging for life once you kick the ****er in the face, before you tie a rope around his hands.

We have to turn those animals in. I know how hard it is to register, that this **** will probably be sitting in court next week, and will recieve meals.

Usually the medical forensics discover many misterious injuries on the captured and checked in Chechen freedom fighters. Some injuries are writen as a new type , in their diagnose identification books.

[Tommy Gunn]

I wonder if there will be more cooperation between the USA and Russia in this war against Islamic terror.

[Truthsayer]

Oh shut up you moron.

Or you will set up a carbomb and kill me?

[Uninen]

Think about this - In our MVD archives there are estimately 217+ hours of this nasty ****. All for evidence. Mostly executions, beheadings, sawing off heads, choping off heads, sliting throats, shooting in the neck, in the head, in the balls. All the nasty **** recorded for the evidence to use against them later.

Yeah..

I think that Russian foreign ministery toured some nations to give a preview of tapes like those to western media..

Most journalists fled the "previews" crying and vomiting.. or something like that.. But after that the west seems again to have forgotten that just how brutal these Chechen ****s are.. :|