After Yandarbiyev 's involvement in the October 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis , Yandarbiyev was placed on Interpol 's most wanted list and Russia made the first of several requests for extradition in February 2003 , citing Yandarbiyev as a major international terrorist and financier of the al-Qaeda-backed Chechen resistance . In June 2003 , his name was consequently added to the United Nations Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee 's blacklist of al-Qaeda-related suspects . Yandarbiyev played a key role in directing funding from foundations in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf in order to support a radical Chechen faction dubbed the Special Purpose Islamic Regiment , a militant group responsible for the Moscow theater hostage crisis . In January 2004 he was interviewed extensively in Qatar for the BBC Four documentary '' The Smell of Paradise '' , where the film-makers called him the " spiritual leader of the Chechens and a poet on the road to jihad . " On February 13 , 2004 , Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was killed when a bomb ripped through his SUV in the Qatari capital , Doha . Yandarbiyev was seriously wounded and died in hospital . His 13-year-old son Daud was seriously injured . Some , but not all , reports said two of his bodyguards were killed , but this has not been confirmed
Moscow theater hostage crisis
Moscow theater hostage crisis
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev