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| | Ex-Chechen president dies in blast - World News - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Former Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev died when his car, seen here, reportedly exploded in Doha, Qatar, on Friday. |
 | | DOHA, Qatar - Former Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, who has been linked to al-Qaida and was wanted in Russia for maintaining international terrorist ties, died here Friday, hospital officials said, after Arab media reported he was fatally wounded when his car exploded. |
 | | Yandarbiyev, born in 1952, became vice president of the Russian republic of Chechnya under separatist president Dzhokhar Dudayev, and served as acting president of de facto independent Chechnya in 1996-97. |
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