MOSCOW. Oct 13 (Interfax-AVN) - Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin said he thought it unlikely that professional bomber Khalil Rudvan, who was killed in Chechnya on October 8, had resided in Canada during the last four or five years.
Martin made the comment in an interview with Ekho Moskvy radio, broadcast on Tuesday, during his visit to Moscow.
A Canadian passport was found on Rudvan's body after he was killed in a Russian military operation.
The issue was not raised at his meeting with Russian President Vladimir, Martin said.
Major General Ilya Shabalkin, a spokesman for the regional headquarters of the anti-guerilla operation in the North Caucasus, said in announcing Rudvan's death that Abu Havs, an Arab mercenary fighting in Chechnya on behalf of international terrorist organizations, had asked one of such organizations to send to Chechnya a professional bomber. The organization responded by sending Rudvan.