On 9 July 2010, he published an article about an operation by Dagestani law enforcement officials which took place in the town of Derbent on 16 June 2010, in which four suspected armed fighters were killed. In his article, Magomed Hanmagomedov noted that two of the names of those killed were initially reported wrongly by the police. He questioned the official version of the event: that four men in a car refused to stop and opened fire at the police. He suggested instead that the driver and his three passengers may have been led into an ambush and gunned down. He also suggested that people other than the suspected fighters may have been present in the car.