Independent sources refute the KGB claims of killing Mujahideen in the Botlikh district of Dagestan. A resident of Dagestan, Gusayev, writes in his livejournal:
"All the media tells about killing Mujahideen in the Botlikh district of Dagestan. They said a policemen was also killed during a special operation carried out by the KGB (FSB).
There's a lot of rumors and talks about a murdered rural accountant and a policeman by Russian secret services.
Today I had a business talk for more than an hour with a guy from Botlikh. We also discussed news. He said he knew the murdered accountant and he was very surprised how the accontant could get involved into this matter.
He also said the policeman went to the place of shooting and came under fire. How long will this continue?"
Another resident of Dagestan, Rasul Kadiyev, a lawyer, also said that an accountant and a policeman were killed and a schoolboy was abducted in the Botlikh district by the Russians.
Russian media and Reuters reported that the KGB claimed one of those killed on February 3 was "identified as Sayf al-Islam". The second person killed by the Russian was assumed to be a 39-year-old resident of the village Andi, Botlikh district, Ibrahim Magomedov.
But a Russian paper "Gazeta" reported that no one in Dagestan believe in what the Russians say about killing "the emissary of al-Qaida", Sayf al-Islam, operating under instructions from the Georgian intelligence".
The most mountainous frontier post of Russia is located in the village of Botlikh. Bird won't fly, the snake won't creep there, the paper writes.
3 people were killed, "Gazeta" reported. All of them were local residents, well known to everybody from the time of their birth: an accountant, a worker from a neighboring construction site and a policeman. None of them could be a citizen of Egypt as the KGB claims.
Department of Monitoring,
Kavkaz Center
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