Terrorists killed in Russian operations

* Russia's most wanted terrorist Shamil Basayev was killed July 10 in a special operation in Ingushetia. Basayev claimed responsibility for the 2004 Beslan school massacre and other atrocities. He also claimed responsibility for masterminding the 2002 Moscow theatre siege, which claimed the lives of 130 people. He also led an attack on a hospital in the southern city of Budyonnovsk, where terrorists took more than 1,500 hostages for five days, in June 1999.

* Warlord Abdul Khalim Saidullayev, who called himself the president of Ichkeria, the name militants use for Chechnya, was killed in a special operation in June. Saidullayev was proclaimed successor of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov who was killed by Russia's security forces in March 2005

* The so-called president of Ichkeria, Aslan Maskhadov, was killed in a special operation by the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Chechnya in March 2005. Maskhadov was involved in many terrorist attacks against civilians and Russian servicemen, including a Moscow theater center siege in October 2002, attacks on Ingushetia and Chechnya, as well as a hostage taking in Beslan, North Ossetia

* Chechen separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was killed in a car bombing in Qatar in February 2004. Two Russian agents were later convicted of his killing in a local court

* Chechen militant ringleader Ruslan Gelayev was killed in 2004

* Movsar Barayev, nephew of Chechen warlord Arbi Barayev, was accused of attacks on federal columns and a series of blowups in Grozny, Urus-Martan and Gudermes. In October 2002, terrorists led by Movsar Barayev took some 1,000 hostages in Moscow's Dubrovka theater center. More than 100 people died, Barayev and 43 other terrorists were killed in a release operation

* Arbi Barayev, accused of abductions of both Russians and foreigners, and the beheading of four British and New Zealand nationals, was killed in June 2001 by a joint group of Interior Ministry and FSB officers.

* Emir Ibn al Khattab was killed in March 2002 in an FSB operation. Khattab was directly involved in preparing and perpetrating an attack on Chechnya's capital Grozny in August 1996, as well as a terrorist act in Buinaksk in December 1997

* Abu Umar, a Saudi native, one of the most well known aides to Khattab, was killed in July 2001 in a joint Interior Ministry and FSB operation. He organized explosions in Buinaksk in 1998, an explosion in Volgograd in 2000

* Dzhokhar Dudayev, the first president of the so-called Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, was killed in a missile strike in April 1996