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Tuesday, 19 September 2006
CHECHEN RESISTANCE LEADER\'S BROTHER VANISHES
By empty (9/19/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Akhmad Umarov, who reportedly turned himself in to pro-Moscow Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov on August 18 in response to FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev\'s July appeal to militants in the North Caucasus to surrender, disappeared several days after footage of his surrender was screened on Russian television, the resistance website kavkazcenter.com reported on September 15. None of Umarov\'s relatives or friends have any idea of his whereabouts.
Akhmad Umarov, who reportedly turned himself in to pro-Moscow Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov on August 18 in response to FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev\'s July appeal to militants in the North Caucasus to surrender, disappeared several days after footage of his surrender was screened on Russian television, the resistance website kavkazcenter.com reported on September 15. None of Umarov\'s relatives or friends have any idea of his whereabouts. Umarov\'s brother Doku succeeded Abdul-Khalim Sadullayev in July as resistance commander and president of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria. (RFE/RL)