[Marxism] Slain Top Chechen Commander Was US-Trained Marine

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On 24 Mar 2005 at 4:52, Rick Rozoff wrote:


http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5474577&startrow=11&date=2005-03-24&do_alert=0


Russian Information Agency (Novosti)
March 24, 2005


WARLORD KILLED IN CHECHNYA WAS EX-U.S. MARINE


-He began the second Chechen campaign in Grozny but
later escaped to the mountains and Georgia.
Operational information acquired in summer 2001 said
he was planning to use chemical and bacteriological
weapons against federal forces.


MOSCOW - Rizvan Chitigov, who was killed in the
district center Shali in Chechnya on Wednesday and was
the third most influential warlord after Shamil
Basayev and Doku Umarov, had graduated from an elite
U.S. subversion and reconnaissance school and had
served on a contract basis in a U.S. Marine battalion,
Kommersant [Boris Berezovsky] reports.

Marine dog tags indicating his name, and date and
place of birth, were discovered on his body.

In the early 1990s, Chitigov went to America using the
assistance of an international Muslim fund, which had
a mission in Chechnya. Returning to Shali in 1994, he
told his compatriots that he could have forged a
career in the U.S. Navy (and was subsequently called
"the American" after that), but a warlord, Khattab,
persuaded him to return to his native republic.

Chitigov initially fought under Khattab and commanded
the only tank battalion the self-proclaimed Chechen
Republic of Ichkeria had. He began the second Chechen
campaign in Grozny but later escaped to the mountains
and Georgia. Operational information acquired in
summer 2001 said he was planning to use chemical and
bacteriological weapons against federal forces. Soon
"the American's" secret base with a batch of homemade
ricin was found. This is when Chitigov received his
second alias, "the Chemist."

Several days ago, the security services intercepted a
mobile telephone conversation and established where
Chitigov could be hiding after spending the winter in
Baku. A three-room flat was checked three times, but
nobody was found. But when the security service
officers were leaving the flat the fourth time, they
heard a noise.

It turned out that Chitigov had spent over three days
in a small niche in a wall masked by tiles. The
terrorist was in a hurry to leave the flat and dropped
a tiled panel on the floor. He opened fire at the
policemen who rushed back into the flat but missed and
was killed by return fire.






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