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China Daily | Updated: 2009-03-31 07:47
Rebel chief badly wounded
Sulim Yamadayev, a bitter opponent of the Moscow-backed leader of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, has been badly wounded in an assassination attempt in the United Arab Emirates, Russian newspapers said yesterday.
Former rebel chief Yamadayev challenged Kadyrov for control of Chechen security forces until last year when he was dismissed from the command of an elite battalion and forced to flee.
(China Daily 03/31/2009 page12)
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