– DUK GUBASHEV & MAKAHCH MAMASHEV

 

* Duk Vakhi Gubashev, a Chechen warlord known as Batya (“old man”) has been killed by Russian Special Forces, on 07/06/2005, in Chechnya, according to the Russian Interior Ministry.  At the site, the police found and confiscated a load of weapons, ammunition and special communications devices, and also a written manual of how to make explosive devices, a phone book with foreigners’ phone numbers, and a map of the Moscow subway.

The press center said Duk Vakhi Gubashev’s rebels and a group of Arabs had mined roads, prepared terrorist attacks, and recruited local residents, particularly among young people. The militants also opened new bases, kept in contact with other rebels, provided them with food and weapons, and also helped them get into Southern mountainous regions of Chechnya.

* Makhach Mamashev, was the so-called emir (commender) of the Muslim insurgents of Khasavyurt District in Dagestan, on the border with Chechnya. He was a subordinate of the prominent Dagestani warlord Rappani Khalilov, who is suspected of masterminding a number of attacks in the North Caucasus. According to the Russian and Degastani police, Makhach Mamashev was involved in armed raids on the Chechen villages of Ishkhoi-Yurt and Avtury and a series of attacks on police officers in Dagestan’s Khasavyurt district.

Makhach Mamashev was killed, along with 8 of his men, in a clash with security forces in Khasavyurt on 11/02/2005.

 

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