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Police establish identity of terrorist leader killed in Russia's Dagestan last week

One of the neutralized militants was identified as Murad Zalitinov, born 1984, also known as Abu Takhir, leader of a structural chain of the Imarat Kavkaz international terrorist group
Special operation in Dagestan (archive) ITAR-TASS/Ruslan Alibekov/NewsTeam
Special operation in Dagestan (archive)
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MOSCOW, December 15 /TASS/. Law enforcers that liquidated a terrorist group in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan last Friday have established the identity of its ringleader responsible for training suicide bombers, a source at the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), said on Monday.

One of the neutralized militants was identified as Murad Zalitinov, born 1984, also known as Abu Takhir. "He was the ringleader of the “Kadar” terrorist group. Since 2013, he was heading the Kadar sector of the Vilayat (Province) of Dagestan, a structural chain of the Imarat Kavkaz international terrorist organization,” the FSB source went on to say.