Russian 'Bin Laden' killed by Moscow's special forces, by Andrew Osborn. Telegraph, 07 Mar 2010.
Militant Website Confirms Buryatsky's Death, RFERL: Caucasus Report, March 07, 2010.The FSB intelligence service said a special forces operation had resulted in the death of Sheikh Said Buryatsky, an Islamist convert whose real name was Alexander Tikhomirov.
Sheikh Said Buryatsky was a very effective Jihadi ideologue, and was in-part responsible for the return of suicide bombings to the North Caucasus. It is notable that he was a convert to Islam and was from Buryatia in southern Siberia, and not from the North Caucasus; his mother is Russian and his father was a Buddhist.Hunafa.com, the website of the Ingushetian front of the North Caucasus insurgency, today confirmed official claims that one of the six militants killed during a special operation on March 2 in the village of Ekazhevo, south-east of Nazran, was Said Buryatsky, who over the past two years gained a reputation as ideologue of the Islamic militancy headed by former Chechen President Dokka Umarov.
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