Terrorist Mastermind Killed

[Regis Philbin]

Congrats to the Ruskies, well done...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe...yev/index.html

Mastermind of Russian school siege killed

Report: Chechen warlord dies in blast set by Russian agents

Monday, July 10, 2006; Posted: 11:12 p.m. EDT (03:12 GMT)


Shamil Basayev is believed to have led many of the major Chechen attacks on Russian targets.


MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Russian security agents have killed the nation's most-wanted man, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, the director of the Federal Security Service said Monday.

Basayev claimed responsibility for the Beslan school attack in 2004, in which 331 people, half of them children, were killed.

FSS Director Nikolai Patrushev said Monday that Basayev was planning an attack to coincide with the G8 summit of world leaders this weekend in Russia.

Russian television showed Patrushev meeting Monday with President Vladimir Putin to tell him about the operation in Ingushetia -- a republic bordering Chechnya -- in which Basayev was killed early Monday.

Russian agents exploded a truck bomb next to several cars in which Basayev and other rebels were riding, according to the Interfax news agency, quoting Ingush Deputy Prime Minister Bashir Aushev.

"This is retaliation he deserves for killing our children in Beslan, Budennovsk, all the terrorist acts his bandits perpetrated in Moscow and other regions of Russia, including Ingushetia and the Chechen Republic," Patrushev said in an Interfax report.