October 24, 2001 - 21:58 AMT
KHATTAB SENDS HIS SOLDIERS TO AFGHANISTAN THROUGH AZERBAIJAN
As ITAR-TASS informs with the reference to well informed sources, one of the leaders of the Chechen illegal military units Khattab sends his soldiers to Afghanistan. According to the agreement with Talibs, Chechens lead some detachments. According to the information, these soldiers will leave for Azerbaijan, where they have to be met by the people of the commanders Khoj-Ahmed Nukhayev and Zelemkhan Yandarbiyev. Then they will go to Turkey. There they will be accompanied the representatives of Chechen businessman Huseyn Marayev, at whose house brother of Shamil Basayev Shirvani, wounded at a battle in Vedeno, has lived for two years.