MAKHACHKALA. October 9. KAZINFORM An important warlord, the so-called amir of the Makhachkala jamaat, Gadjimurad Kamalutdinov, has been killed in the course of a special security operation in the village of Kirovaul, Kizilyurt district of the North Caucasian region of Dagestan, Kazinform refers to Ita-Tass.

Kamalutdinov's wife was killed together with him, public relations officials at the Dagestani branch of the Russian Federal Security Service FSB told Itar-Tass.

The active phase of the operation lasted more than two hours, in the course of which the legal status of the antiterrorist operation was imposed on Kirovaul.

Kamalutdinov and a grouping of saboteurs he presided over was involved in a range of attempts on the lives law enforcement officers and in terrorist crimes.

He was a nephew of the ideologist of Dagestani extremists, Bagautdin Magomedov, placed on the international wanted list in 1999.

There is no data on whether any of the policemen was wounded during the operation, Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com for full version.