Russian Intelligence Kills Top Al Qaeda Operative in South Russia

[Minstrel Boy]

Russian Intelligence Kills Top Al Qaeda Operative in South Russia
03.12.2004

Russian special forces have killed an al Qaeda operative fighting with the Chechen separatist movement in southern Russia’s Ingushetia region.

The man, a Syrian citizen who went by the name of Marwan, was killed on Nov. 26 by FSB forces in a special operation, the Russian Information Agency Novosti reported.

Marwan, who had several aliases including Abu Habib, the White Arab, Sambiev Ahmed, and Turk Murat, served as deputy to Abu Hafs, a close collaborator of Saudi mercenaries Hattab and Abu Walid, who were both killed by Russian troops.

Abu Hafs, according to Russian intelligence, had personally met with al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and was thought to have been the financial link behind September’s bloody hostage siege in Beslan, where 330 people were killed. Marwan was also a member of several Turkey-based extremist organizations, Novosti reports.

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/12/03/marwan.shtml

[Floogeldy]

1. That was a good plan

Actually chasing down a terrorist? What a concept! They even avoided invading the wrong country!

[leesa]

3. Really. Imagine if we had tried the same thing before Afghanistan and

Iraq! Ten months of carpet bombing and tens of thousands of Afghan deaths in order to apprehend a handful of ALLEGED suspects. And then, of course, there is Iraq...

[aquart]

4. Damned economical, too.

What a concept.

[Fridays Child]

2. When has anybody ever caught or killed one who WASN'T a top operative?