Chechen terrorist leader Doku Umarov killed in special operation

The President of Chechnia, Ramzan Kadyrov, has just confirmed that Chechen terrorist leader Doku Umarov, the self-styled "1st Emir of the Caucasus Emirate and 5th President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria" has been killed in a special operation of the Chechen security services.

Recently, Dokku Umarov had promised to attack the Sochi Olympics.  The leader of the Ukrainian Nazis Dmitri Iarosh had appealed to Umarov to attack Russia and the Ukraine.

Umarov was the last major Chechen terrorist still not killed by the Russian or Chechen special services.  Though he had no more real power - the Chechen insurgency has been basically wiped out - he was still the living personification of evil for many Chechens and Russians and his death marks the end of a tragic and ugly era.  May God protect the Russian and Chechen people and may they always live in peace together.

The Saker

Suspects of Attacks Arrested in Moscow

Prensa Latina reports:

The Russian police arrested a woman and three men from Chechnya suspected of being involved in preparing an attack in this capital, Federal Security Service sources reported.

According to Life News, those involved are Hassan Nazhaev, 26, Ramzan Jaliev, 28, Ruslan Yusupov, 30, and Angela Batalova, 39, who allegedly is the widower of a member of an armed group.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation considered it likely that Maria Jorosheva, the wife of Vitali Razdbudko, was the suicide attacker who blew herself up on Monday at the entrance to a police building in Gubden, Dagestan.

That territory suffered another suicide attack the same day and the local press blamed Razdbuko. A car bomb, loaded with 30 kilograms of explosives, killed two people and injured 22.

Razdbuko is seen as the organizer of the attack of January 24 on Domodedovo airport, where Magomed Evloev, 20 and under the effects of drugs, remained for an hour before perpetrating the attack that killed 36 people and injured nearly 200.