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Yacine Benalia is usually linked to Observer report, but I think this may be the primary source about him.
ISN SECURITY WATCH (4/10/2004) - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Sunday that an Algerian-born British citizen had aided Chechen rebel warlord Shamil Basaev in the organization of the early September hostage-taking crisis in the northern town of Beslan, in which two other Algerians are alleged to have participated, Russian and British media reported. Russian investigators said that they had identified most of 32 attackers in the Beslan raid, which claimed the lives of 331 people, including 172 children, according to the latest official estimates. The FSB has described Algerian-born Kamel Rabat Bouralha, 46, as a key aide to Basaev, who claimed responsibility for the Beslan attack and three others in August, including the suicide bombings of two airborne passenger planes and a Moscow metro station. Bouralha was detained in Chechnya two weeks ago as he attempted to flee to Azerbaijan to treat a bullet wound in his chest, FSB spokesman in Chechnya Ilya Shabalkin told Russian media. Later, the FSB identified two Arabs among the killed Beslan attackers as Algerian-born Osman Larussi and Yacine Benalia. Russian investigators said that the three Algerians came to Chechnya from London in 2001. Former associates of the Scotland Yard in London confirmed that Bouralha had lived in London and had been a frequent visitor at Finsbury Park mosque in 2000, the Observer reported on Sunday. The mosque is notorious for its outspoken leader, mullah Abu Khamza, who lost his hands and left eye fighting Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Shabalkin claimed earlier, citing Bouralha, that the mosque was an active recruiting center for jihadist mercenaries destined to fight Russian troops in Chechnya. In related news, a senior police officer suspected of beating a terrorist suspect to death two weeks ago was put on a "wanted" list by Moscow prosecutors' office, after he disappeared on Wednesday, Russian news agencies reported on Monday. Officer Vyacheslav Dushenko was the last to interrogate naval officer Alexander Pumane, who was apprehended in Moscow on 18 September in a car wired with powerful explosives. Pumane died from heavy brain injures after the interrogation. Neither his ex-wife nor former classmates could identify his bruised corpse for investigators. Officer Dushenko failed to turn up for questioning in a probe into Pumane's death and had not returned to his office since last Wednesday. In other news, top Moscow policeman Vladimir Pronin on Friday denied statements he made earlier last week to the effect that the case was closed on the July murder of US journalist Paul Klebnikov. Earlier last week, Pronin had told reporters that the case was closed with the arrest of two Chechen criminals in Moscow and the identification of a pistol found in their apartment that was allegedly used to kill Klebnikov, the editor of the Russian version of Forbes magazine. (By Nabi Abdullaev in Moscow)
http://newslist.isn.ch/index.php?f=archive&val=295&nl=1&opt=view Eva Jlassi 16:00, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
