A senior functionary of al-Qaeda terrorist outfit has been gunned down by Russian forces in insurgency-plagued North Caucasus region, reports said on Friday.
In a statement, Moscow's National Anti-Terrorist Committee said Saudi-born Haled Yusef Muhammad al Emirat also called Moganned, had been killed along with another militant in an encounter with security forces in Chechnya.
Moganned, who functioned as al-Qaeda's chief envoy in the Caucasus, was killed in a raid near Serzhen-Yurt village in southern Chechnya Thursday.
Further the Anti-Terrorist Committee said Moganned was active in the Russian Caucasus since 1999 and by 2005 he had become al-Qaeda's top functionary in the region. He reportedly drew on his exhaustive network of contacts to help raise foreign funds for the terrorist outfit, especially from the Arabian Peninsula.
A spokesman for the Anti-Terror Committee has been quoted as saying in a televised statement that the dead militant was actively involved in planning and successfully carryng out majority of suicide attacks witnessed in the region over the last couple of years.
According to pro-rebel website kavkazcenter.com, Moganned, had been killed along with two other militants in clashes with Russin security forces.
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