Dagestani police detain 29-year-old terror-strike suspect

08.08.2003

By Yuri Safronov

MAKHACHKALA, August 8 (Itar-Tass) -

Police in Dagestan have detained a 29-year-old resident of the Osmanyurt village, the Khasavyurt district of Dagestan on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist act in Khasavyurt last month. A car bomb ripped off the building of a city policy station in Khasavyurt on July 17, 2003, killing three people and leaving ten wounded, Colonel Abdulmanap Musayev, the press service chief of the Dagestani Interior Ministry, told Itar-Tass on Friday.

Investigators have established that Aliev actively fought against the  federal troops in 1999-2001 under the command of warlord Abu-Dzhafar. He also participated in several attacks on federal truck columns in Chechnya. He and his fellow rebels attacked a military convoy near the Serzhen-Yurt village, the Urus-Martan district of Chechnya. Eleven Russian servicemen got killed in the attack.

The rebels recorded their atrocities on a video tape. The investigators have a tape that shows Aliev torturing and then executing heavily wounded Russian soldiers.

Besides, there is evidence that Aliev personally helped Kazim Abdurakhmanov (Abuzara), the leader of a group responsible for the terror strike in Kaspiysk on May 9, 2002, to flee to Chechnya shortly after the blast. Forty-three people died in the May 9th blast in Kaspiysk last year and more than a hundred people were wounded.