Ex-Guantanamo inmate is slain
From Times Wire Reports
A man formerly held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was killed in a shootout with security agents in a restive North Caucasus republic, Russia’s top security agency said.
Ruslan Odizhev was killed amid gunfire that erupted when agents tried to arrest him and another man in Kabardino-Balkaria, a region near Chechnya that is beset with violence linked both to crime and to religious tensions, the Federal Security Service said in a statement.
Odizhev was one of seven Russians released from the detention facility in 2004.
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