Basayev\'s Stooge Liquidated in Chechnya

According to a spokesman of the Regional Operative Staff (ROS) for control of anti-terror operations in the Northern Caucasus, the federal forces have carried out a special operation in Chechnya to neutralize one of the bandit chieftains, Boulat Goudayev, a subordinate of Shamil Basayev.

Information supplied by one of the gunmen, indicated that bandit leaders Souleiman Imourzayev and his closest associate Boulat Goudayev, S. Basayev's relative by marriage, were hiding in the Vedeno area.

An ambush was laid by the special task troopers. Three of the four bandits were killed and one wounded in the skirmish, weapons and ammunition captured. Among the personal effects of one of the killed bandits, a passport in the name of Alik Barshigov, born 1982, resident of Grozny, was found, as well as about 13 grams of heroin and 5 disposable syringes. In the course of the identification it was established that A. Barshigov was an alias of Boulat Goudayev (known also as "Apti", "Boxer", "Abdoulwahab", "Boulkin") wanted in connection with a number of acts of terror.