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).