18 April 2011, 23:30

Another suspected militant identified in Dagestan

As reported by the Information Centre of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), one of the suspected militants, liquidated today in the course of a special operation in Dagestan, was identified as Magomed Adalaev.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that today at night Dagestani law enforcers liquidated four suspected militants in the Levashin District of the republic.

"We managed to identify another militant from among those neutralized on April 18 in the Levashin District: Magomed Adalaev, born in 1990, a native of the village of Balakhani, Untsukul District," reports the NAC.

"According to the operative headquarters in the Republic of Dagestan, in 2010, Adalaev returned to Dagestan from Egypt, where he studied in one of Islamic institutes," the "Interfax" quotes the NAC's statement.

Let us remind you that according to official data, on April 18 at 0:15 a.m. Moscow time, in the highway Tashkapur-Hadjadmakhi, special agents and law enforcers killed four suspected militants. According to a source from law enforcement bodies, one of them was identified as Israpil Validzhanov, 42, also known as Amir Hassan, who headed the rebels of Dagestan in August 2010 after the death of Magomedali Vagabov.

All the casualties had been involved in murders and murder attempts of civilians and law enforcement agents, as well as numerous other terrorist crimes, the "Interfax" reports with reference to the NAC. 

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