GROZNY, September 17 (RIA Novosti) - Warlord Akhmed Avdorkhanov, a close associate of terrorist leader Aslan Maskhadov, was killed in Chechnya," Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov said Saturday.
"Shamil Basayev's men killed Akhmed Avdorkhanov," he said adding that Basayev had made many attempts to eliminate Avdorkhanov.
"He [Avdorkhanov] was Basayev's ideological opponent and an ardent adversary of Wahhabism," Kadyrov said.
