MAKHACHKALA, Russia -
A Jordanian who commanded foreign mercenaries in Chechnya and was
reportedly al-Qaidas top emissary in the troubled North Caucasus
has been eliminated during a special operation, security officials
said.
The involvement of Jordanian citizen Abu Khavs in crimes committed
on the territory of the Chechen Republic has been established and
he has been put on the international wanted list, a spokesman for
the prosecutors office has said.
According to Russian intelligence data, Abu Khavs headed the
terrorist network in the North Caucasus after Khattab and Abu Valid
had been eliminated.
Apart from Arab hireling Abu-Havs, security officers destroyed also
a Chechen and two local residents. According to the local FSB
branch, the destroyed gunmen were involved in terrorist activities
in the territory of the Russian Federation.
According to secret services, Jordanian citizen Farid Yusef Umeira,
known among gunmen as Abu-Havs al-Urduni, orchestrated terrorist
activities of foreign hirelings, local armed gangs and religious
extremists. He also exercised control over distribution of
financial and material resources, received from international
terrorist and extremist structures.
Abu-Havs was a successor of previous Al Qaeda envoys in the North
Caucasus Khattab, Abu al-Valid and Abu-Umar who had been destroyed
by FSB squads and who had been on the Wanted List of several
foreign states, the press service noted. It explained that the
Jordanian had come to Russia to set up a ramified terrorist
infrastructure, to step up and orchestrate terrorist activities of
local armed gangs in the region as well as to recruit new
mercenaries.
According to reliable data, Abu-Havs arrived in Dagestan to
engineer and commit large-scale terror acts so as to destabilize
the situation in the republic, emphasized the press service.
Foreign mercenary Abu Havs was the last close aide to the notorious
terrorist Khattab.
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Chechen Premier Ramzan Kadyrov commented today that the death of
Abu-Khavs will much improve the situation in Chechnya:
Today I was informed that the well known Arab terrorist Abu-Khavs,
who for a long time has been one of the main emissaries of
international terrorists in the North Caucasus region and for all
practical purposes fully financed the terrorist organizations in
the region, has been killed during a spetz-operation in Dagestan. I
am convinced that the liquidation of Abu-Khavs will have a positive
effect on the situation not only in Chechnya, but in all of the
regions, in as much as he invested a large amount of money into
carrying out terror attacks over the course of the last several
years.
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