Russian TV shows body as proof of warlord's death

Saturday, April 27, 2002

MOSCOW -- State television showed footage of a dead body resembling one of Chechnya's two top rebel leaders Friday, in an effort to prove the Russian security agency's claim that it killed the elusive warlord last month.

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