Abu Dzeit

Abu Dzeit, a Kuwaiti national, blew himself up during a special operation in the region of Ingushetia, which neighbors Chechnya, according to Federal Security Service spokesman Sergei Ignatchenko.

Security forces killed two of Abu Dzeit's accomplices in a house and then found him in a bunker built underground, the Interfax news agency quoted Ignatchenko as saying.

He said Abu Dzeit was involved in the armed attack on the Interior Ministry of Ingushetia that killed around 90 people in June 2004 and the hostage-taking raid in Beslan in September 2004, which resulted in the deaths of 344 people, half of them schoolchildren.

Abu Dzeit, aka Little Omar and Abu Omar of Kuwait, had trained bombers and suicide attackers and brainwashed militants. In the bunker were a large amount of weapons and ammunition, a film studio and an explosives lab, Ignatchenko stated.

Abu Dzeit was killed Feb. 16 in a joint operation by the Federal Security Service and the Interior Ministry, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency.

The Japan Times Weekly: Feb. 26, 2005
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