Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov seen in the village of Tsotsi-Yurt, 29 km (18 miles) southeast of Grozny in this Saturday, Jan. 25, 1997, photo. Spokesman for Russian forces in Chechnya Col. Ilya Shabalkin said Tuesday that Maskhadov was killed during the course of a "special operation" in Tolstoy-Yurt, a village in the northern sector of Chechnya, but he did not give immediate details.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)