By empty (8/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazbek Batalov, leader of a Chechen separatist guerrilla group of up to 30 people, has been killed in a police operation \"to blockade and liquidate a group of bandits,\" the police chief of Chechnya\'s Sunzha district said on Thursday, citing \"updated information.\" (Interfax).The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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