Russian Agents Kill Ex-Gitmo Detainee

Former Guantanamo Bay Prisoner Killed In Shootout In Volatile North Caucasus Region

(AP)  A man formerly held in the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was killed Wednesday in a shootout with security agents in a restive North Caucasus republic, Russia's top security agency said.

Ruslan Odizhev was killed amid gunfire that erupted when agents tried to arrest him and another man in Kabardino-Balkariya, a region near Chechnya that is plagued by violence linked both to crime and to religious tensions, the Federal Security Service said in a brief statement.

The service, known by its Russian acronym FSB, said Odizhev had been held at Guantanamo Bay and was believed to have been a supporter of the Taliban. Odizhev was one of seven Russians released from the detention facility in 2004; his whereabouts recently had been unknown.

The FSB did not specify why agents were trying to detain him, but said he was a suspect in the 1999 bombings of apartment buildings in Moscow and Volgodonsk and that he took part in a 2005 insurgent attack on police and government facilities in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkariya.

That attack left 139 people dead, including 94 militants. Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who was killed in 2006, claimed credit for planning the attack.

The FSB said Odizhev was the "spiritual leader" of Yarmuk, an Islamic extremist organization connected to an array of violence in the region.

The office of the republic's top prosecutor, Oleg Zharikov, said Odizhev was killed in Nalchik and that three homemade explosive devices were found on his body. It said he and a rebel named Anzor Tengizov were cornered by agents in the courtyard of an apartment building across the street from a mosque in the central part of the city.

Odizhev and six other Russians who had been detained in Afghanistan were released from Guantanamo in 2004 after investigators said they found no evidence of their involvement with the Taliban. Several were briefly jailed after returning to Russia.

In March, Human Rights Watch charged that the seven had been tortured or harassed and abused by Russian law enforcement agents since their return.

One of them, Rasul Kudayev, is in custody in Nalchik on charges of participating in the 2005 attack. His mother told The Associated Press this spring that he had been repeatedly beaten.

Two others, Ravil Gumarov and Timur Ishmuratov, were sentenced last year to prison terms of 13 and 11 years for blowing up a natural gas pipeline even though they had been acquitted of the charges in an earlier trial.

[gunnerv1]

Would have been better off at "Club GITMO", three hots and a cot.

[prinzowhales]

MEMRI is a propaganda front for Israeli intelligence. They are the same liars who mistranslated the Iranian president's words, claiming that he called for Israel to be 'wiped off the map.' MEMRI and the news organizations that use it are beneath contempt.

[xzavierbrown]

can we hold the ACLU for conspiring to commit harm against teh free world when they were crusading this save this piece of liberal approved caca??

[lars008-2009]

NOW CAN WE KILL THEM???
If they can kill us, we can kill them

Qaeda warns of attacks 'worse than 9/11'
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070530102648.wuwa6k96&show_article=1

Hizbullah Deputy Sec-Gen Sheikh Naim Qassem: We Have Jurisprudent Permission to Carry Out 'Martyrdom' Operations, Fire Missiles on Israeli Civilians From Ayatollah Khomeini
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD154907

Switching Sides: Inside The Enemy Camp

But then in 2000, well before his arrest, something happened which would make Abas question everything he believed in: a fatwa, a religious edict, was issued by Osama bin Laden.

"It should be understood that killing Americans and Jews anywhere found are the highest act of worship and the highest form of good deeds in the eyes of Allah," Simon quotes bin Laden.

Abas and his fellow commanders were ordered to read the fatwa to their men and make sure they carried it out. The others obeyed, but Abas refused. It was his moment of truth. He firmly believed that jihad was to be fought only on the battlefield in defense of Islam; he had always been taught that the killing of civilians had nothing to do with holy war and that it was forbidden.

The fatwa justified killing non-Muslim civilians everywhere.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/04/60minutes/main2761108.shtml?source=RSSattr=60Minutes_2761108
American Al Qaeda Member Threatens Attack
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/29/terror/main2865282.shtml

[prinzowhales]

superchez1--You have the same problem with truth that all the grown up neo-cons have--you're afraid of it.

[three-o-six]

Prinzowhales has allways been just a little diconnected from reality

[drummer94]

Ok. Now think about the rest of the detainees. They do not give a crapola where they kill, steal whatever. Lets make sure when they get released it is to somewhere in Russia or what was once a part of that.

[cathaleen]

It seems none of the prisoners released from Gitmo
are so-called solid citizens. One was spotted hosting a taliban graduation and now this guy shot and killed. Maybe there is something to be said about keeping these guys locked up.

[canaima]

Looks like the Russians at least know how to effectively handle their terrorists. Lock 'em all up or blow 'em away. Either way, the problem is resolved.

[gunnerv1]

One less R*g He*d anyway you look at it.

[one_american]

Prinzowhales,

With a vivid imagination like yours, you should be writing children's fantasy-adventure books instead of wasting your wild stories on a blog.

[prinzowhales]

Look who gets out of Gitmo in 2004! Looks like he agreed to play ball with US intelligence and was busy with the Anglo-American-Israeli efforts to stir up jihad against Putin's Russia supported by the likes of the wanted criminal Boris Berezovsky currently residing in London with his terrorist buddies under the protection of the Anglo Neo-cons.