Rabbi Ovadia Isakov
MAKHACHKALA, Russia — Russia’s main anti-terror agency said
Friday its forces have killed five suspected militants including a prominent
warlord during a raid in the restive southern province of Dagestan.
The National Anti-Terrorist Committee said in a statement
that the militants were killed Friday in Derbent on the Caspian Sea. It said
that security forces acting on a tip surrounded a house where the militants
were holed up. They refused to surrender and were killed in a gunfight.
The Committee said that one of the suspects, Sherif
Akhmedov, was the leader of a group of militants suspected of staging a series
of attacks on police and other authorities and running an extortion racket
targeting local businesses.
Rasul Temirbekov, spokesman for Dagestan’s Investigative
Committee, told The Associated Press that Akhmedov is believed to be behind at
least 20 terrorist attacks in Derbent in the past two years including bus
bombings and a July attack on the rabbi of a local synagogue.
Dagestan has become the epicenter of an Islamic rebellion
that spread across Russia’s North Caucasus region after two separatist wars in
Chechnya.
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