FSB: Gelayev was really killed

The FSB of Russia confirms the liquidation of the Chechen field commander Ruslan Gelayev in the mountains of Dagestan, RIA Novosti reports. "At present, it can be said with full confidence that the militant liquidated the day before by Russian border guards in Dagestan is one of the leaders of the Chechen separatists, Ruslan Gelaev," Colonel Sergei Ignatchenko, head of the Center for Public Relations (CSP) of the FSB of Russia, said. "Over the past 24 hours, a procedure was carried out in Makhachkala to identify the person killed," the head of the CSO added.