Monday, August 28, 2006

Security: Basayev's last wife disappears

Simon Saradzhyan, Staff Writer for the Moscow Times reports that a Chechen woman believed to be the last wife of Shamil Basayev - Russia's No. 1 terrorist until his death in an explosion on July 9 - is being held by law enforcement agents, who are allegedly pumping her for information on her late husband.

Elina Ersenoyeva, 26, disappeared in Grozny on Aug. 17. News of her marriage to Basayev first appeared last Wednesday on the web site of the Chechen Council of Nongovernmental Organizations. According to Tatyana Lokshina, an expert with the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and chair of its Center Demos research group, she married Basayev in secret and against her will in November 2005.

Full article: Basayev's Secret Bride Vanishes