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  CBSNews.com: Print This Story
Yandarbiyev's teenage son was critically wounded in the blast, which occurred as he and his father were driving away from a mosque where they had performed Friday prayers, said the Interior Ministry and a local hospital.
Yandarbiyev opened a Chechen embassy in Kabul and a consulate in Kandahar during the reign of the hard-line Taliban militia.
Yandarbiyev was a nationalist poet and children's book author, and he became one of the most prominent proponents of radical Islam among the rebels.
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 Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zelimkhan Yanderbiyev or Yandarbiyev (Russian: Зелимхан Абдумуслимович Яндарбиев) (September 12, 1952 February 13, 2004) was an acting president of the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1996 1997).
Originally a literary scholar, he served as vice-president of the self-proclaimed republic from 1991 and became president in April 1996, following the assassination of his predecessor Dzhokhar Dudayev (an act generally blamed on Russia or infighting among Chechen separatists).
The Russian prison authorities admitted in February 2005 that they were not in a jail, but said that a sentence handed down in Qatar was irrelevant in Russia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zelimkhan_Yandarbiyev   (853 words)

  
 Middle East Online
DOHA - Former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, whose extradition from Qatar had been demanded by Russia, was killed in a bomb attack on his car in Doha Friday, government and hospital officials said.
An interior ministry source told the official QNA news agency that Yandarbiyev, who was residing in Qatar "temporarily," was killed and his 13-year-old son wounded when a bomb blast targeted their car as they returned from weekly prayers at a Doha mosque.
Yandarbiyev was interim president after Dzhokhar Dudayev, a former Soviet air force general who launched the Chechen independence movement after the fall of the Soviet Union, was killed by Russian forces in 1996.
www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=8880=8880&format=0   (337 words)

  
 Chechnya news
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, added at Russia's request last year to a U.N. list of people with suspected links to the militant Islamist al-Qaeda group, was killed by a car bomb in Qatar on February 13.
Yandarbiyev was killed on 13 February when a bomb destroyed his jeep after he and his 13-year-old son left a Doha mosque, where they had attended Friday prayers.
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, the former president of the self-styled Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in 1996-1997, had lived in Qatar since 2000.
www.hrvc.net /news2004/27-2-04.html   (3661 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | world news Ex-Chechen leader killed in car bomb
Former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, whose extradition from Qatar had been demanded by Russia, was killed in a car blast in Doha, Qatar on Friday, the first such incident in the Gulf state which often hosts rebel figures.
Russia had demanded Yandarbiyev's extradition, but its SVR foreign intelligence service denied Chechen rebel accusations that it was involved in the death of the 51-year-old ex-leader of the war-torn republic, who had been living in Qatar for three years.
Yandarbiyev was a leader of Chechnya's separatist movement and briefly headed the Caucasus republic toward the end of its first war with Moscow in 1996.
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 USATODAY.com - Qatar car explosion kills former Chechen president   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Yandarbiyev was the main ideologue of the separatists, and therefore of the terrorist organizations bringing Chechnya to such severe consequences," said the president of the Moscow-backed Chechen government, Akhmad Kadyrov.
Yandarbiyev, who was born in 1952, became vice president of Chechnya under separatist president Dzhokhar Dudayev.
During the rule of the Islamic militant Taliban in Aghanistan in 1996-2001, Yandarbiyev opened a Chechen Embassy in the Aghan capital, Kabul, and a consulate in the southern city of Kandahar.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-02-13-chechen-qatar_x.htm   (778 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Russian Foreign Ministry controls investigation of Yandarbiyev's murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was badly wounded and died in hospital.
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was a top-level official in Chechnya under President Dzhokhar Dudayev.
In June 2003 Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was put on the list of the UN Security Council's committee on anti-Taliban sanctions.
english.pravda.ru /main/2004/02/16/52332_.html   (298 words)

  
 Muslim American Society
Yandarbiyev, also a poet and children's author who had been living in exile in Doha for more than three years, was the first Chechen separatist to be added at Russia's request last year to a U.N. list of groups and people with suspected ties to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, the news agency reports.
Born in 1952, Yandarbiyev represented the Chechen resistance in the Gulf and Muslim countries as part of a worldwide network of envoys.
Yandarbiyev is the most prominent Chechen separatist to have been killed since the 2002 death of warlord Omar Ibn al Khattab, who reportedly was poisoned, reports the AP.
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 WorldTribune.com: Chechen ex-president with Al Qaida ties assassinated in Qatar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, former president of Chechnya and linked to Al Qaida, was killed in a car bombing in the Qatari capital of Doha.
Yandarbiyev, 51, was said to have left a mosque in Doha on Friday when he entered his car.
The sources said Yandarbiyev was aided by Al Qaida sympathizers in the royal families of such countries as Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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 News-Star OnlineFormer Chechen president assassinated 02/14/04
Yandarbiyev's 13-year-old son was critically wounded in the 12:45 p.m.
Al-Nasr said Yandarbiyev was living "a normal life" in Qatar and was not involved in political activities.
During the hard-line Islamic rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 1996-2001, Yandarbiyev opened a Chechen Embassy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and a consulate in the southern city of Kandahar.
www.news-star.com /stories/021404/New_13.shtml   (995 words)

  
 Shia News | Middle East | Former Chechen leader killed in attack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev and two of his bodyguards were killed in a bomb attack on his car in Doha on Friday.
Yandarbiyev was critically wounded in the explosion and died later in the hospital.
Born in 1952, Yandarbiyev became vice president of Chechnya under Dzhokhar Dudayev, the separatist president, and served as acting president of de facto independent Chechnya in 1996-1997.
www.shianews.com /hi/middle_east/news_id/0001060.php   (164 words)

  
 Online NewsHour Update: Former Chechen Leader Killed in Qatar Bomb Blast -- February 13, 2004
Yandarbiyev became vice president of the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya under separatist president Dzhokar Dudayev and later served as acting president of a de facto independent Chechnya in 1996-97.
Yandarbiyev was added to a United Nations list of people with alleged links to the al-Qaida terrorist network at Russia's request and was also on a list of international terrorists subject to U.S. financial sanctions.
During the rule of the Islamic militant Taliban in Aghanistan, Yandarbiyev opened a Chechen embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul, and a consulate in the southern city of Kandahar.
www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/chechen_02-13-04.html   (589 words)

  
 Former Chechen leader assassinated in Qatar - The Washington Times: World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yandarbiyev's teenage son was critically wounded in the blast, which occurred as he and his father were driving away from Friday prayers at a mosque, according to an Interior Ministry statement and a local hospital spokesman.
Yandarbiyev was living "a normal life" in Qatar and was not involved in any political activities.
Yandarbiyev on a list of people with links to the al Qaeda terrorist group, which is blamed for the September 11 attacks on the United States.
washingtontimes.com /world/20040213-093424-9034r.htm   (526 words)

  
 News
Yandarbiyev, a hard-line secessionist whose death was also reported by officials in the pro-Moscow Chechen government, took over after Dudayev died April 21 in a Russian rocket attack.
Yandarbiyev's reported death was accompanied by a barrage of speculation in the Russian media about disarray and divisions in the guerrilla leadership after the killing of Dudayev.
Yandarbiyev, a literary scholar, was endorsed as Dudayev's successor by a rebel military council which met soon after the leader's death.
www.christusrex.org /www2/news-old/4-96/ew4-30-96.html   (1759 words)

  
 CBC News:Former Chechen president killed in explosion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
DOHA - Former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was killed Friday in a car explosion in the Qatari capital of Doha.
Yandarbiyev's two bodyguards also died in the blast and his 13-year-old son was injured, according to the Qatar News Agency.
"Yandarbiyev was the main ideologue of the separatists, and therefore of the terrorist organizations bringing Chechnya to such severe consequences," the Interfax news agency quoted current Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov, who is backed by the Kremlin.
www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/02/13/chechen040213   (236 words)

  
 Kremlin Bantah Bunuh Yandarbiyev - Minggu, 15 Februari 2004
Yandarbiyev meninggal dunia akibat luka-lukanya, sementara putranya yang berusia 13 tahun luka parah namun kondisinya dinyatakan stabil.
Juru bicara badan intelijen Rusia FSB (dahulu KGB), Boris Lobusov, kemarin (14/2) menegaskan lembaganya tidak memiliki kaitan dengan kematian Yandarbiyev.
Yandarbiyev "muncul" kembali di Chechnya tahun 1996 ketika perang (yang pertama) hampir berakhir.
www.kompas.com /kompas-cetak/0402/15/utama/858835.htm   (506 words)

  
 Former Chechen President Yandarbiyev Dies (phillyBurbs.com)
The doctor, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Yandarbiyev's son was in critical condition.
Yandarbiyev, born in 1952, became vice president of Chechnya under separatist president Dzhokhar Dudayev, and served as acting president of de facto independent Chechnya in 1996-97.
Yandarbiyev opened a Chechen Embassy in Kabul and a consulate in Kandahar during the reign of the Taliban.
www.buzztracker.org /2004/02/13/cache/66244.html   (372 words)

  
 [lbo-talk] Ex-Chechen President Yandarbiyev Killed
Ex-Chechen President Yandarbiyev Killed 1 minute ago 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 Friday, hospital officials said, after Arab media reported he was fatally wounded when his car exploded.
A doctor, who declined to be identified, told The Associated Press that Yandarbiyev died from his injuries on the way to the hospital.
Yandarbiyev, born in 1952, became vice president of the Russian republic of Chechnya (news - web sites) under separatist president Dzhokhar Dudayev, and served as acting president of de facto independent Chechnya in 1996-97.
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 Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> Former Chechen President killed in bomb blast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Moscow: Former Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev - a separatist leader who was linked to al-Qaeda network by UN Security Council and wanted by Russia for a terrorist strike in Dagestan - was killed today (Feb 13, 2004) in a car bomb blast in Doha in the Gulf State of Qatar, along with his two bodyguards.
The UN Security Council had listed Yandarbiyev among the persons linked with al-Qaeda terror network and Moscow was seeking his extradition for unleashing a terror strike on Chechnya's neighbouring Dagestan in 1999, which led to the meteoric rise of Vladimir Putin on the Russian power Olympus.
Yandarbiyev was briefly Chechnya's acting-President in 1995-96 and had led the separatist regime's delegation at Kremlin talks with the erstwhile Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
news.indiainfo.com /2004/02/13/1302killed.html   (307 words)

  
 Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Zelimkhan Yanderbiyev or Yandarbiyev (1951 - February 13, 2004) was an acting president ofthe breakaway Republic of Chechnya (1996 - 1997).
Originally a literary scholar, he served as vice-president of the self-proclaimed republic from 1991 and became president in April 1996, following the assassination of hispredecessor Dzhokhar Dudaev or (Dzhokhar Dudayev).
Ex-Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev Was Assassinated in CarExplosion, Qatari Gov't Says – ABC News
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 Qatari authorities continue investigations into assassination of former Chechen President Yandarbiyev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, killed when an assassin's bomb ripped through his SUV as he left Friday prayers with his teenage son, was "a holy warrior for the sake of God, and part of the struggling Chechen people," Sheik Ali Quradaghi said in his funeral oration.
Yandarbiyev had seldom been seen in public since he settled her, but he occasionally appeared on Qatar's Al-Jazeera satellite television channel where he commented on the Chechen-Russian conflict.
Yandarbiyev became one of the most prominent proponents of radical Islam among the Chechen rebels.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/14/international1436EST0532.DTL   (857 words)

  
 Al Qaida News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Former Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, who has been linked to al-Qaida and was wanted in Russia for maintaining international terrorist ties, died Friday, hosp...
Yandarbiyev's son was understood to be in a critical condition.
DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Former Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was undergoing surgery Friday, a...
archive.wn.com /2004/02/13/1400/alqaidanews   (615 words)

  
 Former Chechen President Yandarbiyev dies in car explosion in Qatar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Former Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, wanted in Russia for terrorist ties and linked to al-Qaida, died Friday after an explosion ripped apart his car in the Qatari capital, the Interior Ministry said.
Yandarbiyev, also a poet and children's author, was killed in the 12:45 p.m.
A doctor at Hamad General Hospital said Yandarbiyev died en route, and his son was in critical condition.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/13/international0851EST0510.DTL   (639 words)

  
 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.
newsblaster.cs.columbia.edu /archives/2004-02-15-11-09-51/web/NBproxy.cgi?sentence=5143   (541 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Russian officers guilty of assassination   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Russian officers were arrested in the Qatari capital, Doha, in February on suspicion of planting a bomb that killed Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, a former Chechen president and rebel leader, and wounded his teenage son.
Russia has denied involvement in Yandarbiyev's killing and has said the defendants, who have not been officially identified, were agents gathering intelligence about terrorism.
Yandarbiyev, Chechnya's acting president in 1996-1997, had lived in Qatar since 2000.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-06-30-russian-officers_x.htm   (366 words)

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