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Details emerge of Chechen rebel commander Khattabâ€™s death

08 January 2018 07:37 (UTC +04:00)

The details have emerged of the death of the Chechen rebel commander known as Khattab.

The terrorist was killed by a poisoned letter, slipped to him by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), APA reported citing Rosbalt.

One of the couriers, who occasionally received letters for Khattab and sent them through a special chain, agreed to cooperate with the special services. When he got a letter from Saudi Arabia in 2002, a specialist on poisons laced the letter with a form of sarin, a nerve agent.

According to one of Khattab's personal bodyguards, the terrorist burned the letter after he read it. The poison began to affect on the third day, as a result of which Khattab died on March 20, 2002.