Al-Qaeda’s emissary to North Caucasus killed in Chechnya
Source: Voice of Russia
Photo: RIA Novosti |
The National Antiterrorist Committee of Russia has confirmed that an Arab-born mercenary, Al-Qaeda’s chief emissary to the North Caucasus, who was known as “Mohanned”, has been wiped out in Chechnya.
According to the National Antiterrorist Committee, “Mohanned”, along with Doku Umarov, masterminded almost all terrorist attacks involving the use of suicide bombers in Russia.
“Mohanned” was, besides, in charge of sending fresh gang members from Georgia to the North Caucasus and was the main coordinator of foreign financial inflows for the criminal underworld.
He arrived in Chechnya from Georgia to form part of the so-called “Al-Khattab Group”. “Mohanned” and two other insurgents were killed on Thursday when they put up resistance to Chechen police who spotted them in a forest.
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