Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev - dubbed the Beast of Beslan - has been killed by Russia's security forces. The radical Islamic leader was behind the Beslan school siege in which hundreds of people, mostly children, were killed. Basayev, 41, together with other Chechen fighters, was killed in Ingushetia, a region neighboring Chechnya, in an operation by Russian special forces, Russia said.
President Vladimir Putin said Basayev's killing was "deserved retribution".
"This is deserved retribution against the bandits for our children in Beslan, in Budennovsk, for all these acts of terror they committed in Moscow and other Russian regions, including Ingushetia and Chechnya," Mr Putin said.
The Beslan atrocity inspired this op-ed by al-Arabiya General Manager Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, A Wake-up Call : Almost all terrorists are Muslims...
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