Canadian Brain Drain Continues

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A foreign mercenary who apparently came from Canada has been killed while fighting Russian forces in Chechnya, the headquarters of the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus told the RIA-Novosti news agency on Friday.
“The documents found on the killed African-American testify to the fact that he had arrived from Canada,” the agency’s source said. The source noted, however, that the authenticity of these documents was yet to be verified.
“At present we are translating and checking the numerous visas in his passport. The expertise to check their authenticity will be held in the nearest future,” the HQ source said.
Official spokesman of the North Caucasus HQ, Colonel Ilya Shabalkin, said that the killed African-American was an expert in explosives and that he had arrived in Chechnya to replace Algerian fighter Abu Muskhab who was recently taken prisoner by Russian troops. (Kamal Burrakhlia, AKA Abu Muskhab was detained by Russia’s FSB in Chechnya on September 17, 2004. Before arriving in Chechnya in 2001, the mercenary had lived in Great Britain for almost 10 years.)
“The mercenary and three Chechen gunmen who accompanied him were killed on Thursday near the village of Niki-Khita in the Kurchaloi District of Chechnya,” Shabalkin said. The gunmen belonged to a group headed by the warlord Avdorkhanov who is under the immediate command of Aslan Maskhadov, he added.
A grenade launcher, a machine gun and two assault rifles were found on the killed fighters, the spokesman said.

One Reply to “Canadian Brain Drain Continues”

  1. Any more news on this guy? Isn’t it strange that the Russians would refer to him as African-American and yet he’s a Canadian citizen, supposedly. Maybe an emigre?

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