Monday - July 10, 2006

Another One Bites The Dust

The Russkis finally got their man. The Chechen terrorist responsible for the killing of over 300 schoolchildren in Beslan back in 2004 as well as the Moscow Theater tradegy in 2002 is down. One more asshat takes a dirt nap. Add his name to Zarqawi on the list of Dirtbags Demoted By Death. All we need now is to take out Osama Bin Lawdy-Lawdy and Mullah ("Cyclops") Omar and we’ll have a good start.

Then we need to find a way for several thousand radical Imam’s around the world to suddenly die of “natural causes” and we’re almost home. The final step will involve a mysterious earthquake that wipes Iran off the map, a disastrous, unavoidable “meteor” hitting Pyongyang out of a clear blue sky and a sudden spread of Black Plague in Gaza. Oh, almost forgot ... a major earthquake rips off western California from San Francisco to Los Angeles and 90% of American weirdness slides into the Pacifist Ocean (renamed in honor of the anti-war activists who will die in the earthquake).

Well .... I can dream can’t I ...? 

Chechen Rebel Leader Dies in Truck Blast
—MOSCOW (NEWSDAY-AP) - July 10, 2006, 1:15 PM EDT

Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, responsible for modern Russia’s worst terrorist attacks, was killed Monday when a dynamite-laden truck exploded in his convoy, Russian officials said. Federal Security Service head Nikolai Patrushev told President Vladimir Putin that Basayev had been killed overnight in a special operation conducted by Russian forces in Ingushetia, the area of southern Russia that borders Chechnya. Patrushev’s meeting with Putin was shown on Russian state television.

Basayev, 41, was behind some of Russia’s worst terror attacks, including the seizure of a Moscow theater in 2002 in which dozens of hostages and militants died, the 2004 school hostage taking in Beslan that killed 331, and the seizure of about 1,000 hostages at a hospital in Budyonnovsk that killed about 100.

Patrushev gave no details of Basayev’s death in his televised remarks, but an Ingush regional Interior Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said he had been killed while accompanying a truck filled with 220 pounds of dynamite that blew up in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo early Monday.

Basayev was among four militants killed in the blast. The Kavkaz-Center Web site, which is considered a voice for Basayev, confirmed that he died “as a martyr.” Citing a member of the rebel parliament, Abu Umar, it said Basayev had died in an accidental explosion of a truck Monday. “There was no special operation. Shamil and other brothers of ours became martyrs by the will of Allah,” he said. The site confirmed three other rebels had been killed in the blast.

The Interfax news agency quoted Ingush Deputy Prime Minister Bashir Aushev as saying that Basayev’s body had been identified “through some of the fragments, including his head.” Patrushev told Putin that the Chechen rebels had hoped to “put political pressure on the Russian leadership” during the Group of Eight summit later this week, which Putin is chairing.

Patrushev said the operation to eliminate Basayev, in which many other rebels were killed, was thanks to intelligence operations abroad, “especially in those countries where arms were collected. This is deserved retribution for our children in Beslan, for Budyonnovsk, for all the terrorist attacks that they committed in Moscow and in other regions of the Russian Federation including Ingushetia and the Chechen Republic,” Putin said, adding that everyone who took part in the operation should be presented with state medals.

The attack on the Beslan school shocked Russia and divided the rebel movement, since civilians, including women and children, were taken hostage. Basayev was the most notorious of the Chechen warlords, eluding Russian forces for years despite Kremlin vows to hunt him down and an offer of $10 million and plastic surgery to anyone providing information leading to his death.  His grim, decade-long record of killing both civilians and soldiers reflected fanatical determination—a ferocity Russia has said was bolstered by help from international terrorist networks such as al-Qaida. Washington declared Basayev a terrorist and threat to the United States.

- More on the story here ...

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