Arbi Barayev [Alternate spellings Arabi and Baraev] (born 1973, died July 2001), also known as "The Terminator", was a Chechen warlord and renegade leader of Special Purpose Islamic Regiment, a militant Chechen rebel group. Barayev is believed to have ordered the executions of three Britons and a New Zealander, kidnapped in 1998, and was reported to have boasted that he had personally killed 170 people. Wikipedia
The man claiming to lead the rebel group which has seized a Moscow theatre is related to one of the most feared Chechen warlords, writes BBC News Online's Stephen Mulvey. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2355219.stm
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