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Fri Apr 2, 2010 10:59am EDT
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The 17-year-old widow of an Islamist militant from the North Caucasus is suspected of blowing herself up in suicide attacks that killed 40 people in Moscow, Russian law enforcement officials said on Friday.
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More than 50 people were killed and another 100 injured in suicide bombings this week in the Moscow metro and in a town in the turbulent North Caucasus region of Dagestan, raising fears of a new bombing campaign against the Russian heartland.
Photographs of a young woman, obtained by Reuters from a law-enforcement official in Dagestan, showed her dressed in a black hijab and holding a grenade.
Another photograph showed the woman holding a pistol. The same photograph was published in the Kommersant newspaper on Friday.
The source, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue, named her as Dagestani-born Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, the widow of 30-year-old Umalat Magomedov, a prominent insurgent killed by Russian forces on December 31.
Abdurakhmanova also used the name of Dzhanet Abdullayeva, the source said.
Magomedov, who was shown in the photographs holding a pistol, styled himself as the "Emir of the mujahideen of the Vilayat Dagestan," a local Islamist group, the source said.
The Russian Prosecutor-General's main investigations unit later identified the same woman as the bomber.
"A native of Dagestan, Dzhanet Abdullayeva, born in 1992, detonated explosives at the Park Kultury metro station," it said in a statement, giving no further details.
Officials said two female suicide bombers -- known in the Russian media as "Black Widows" -- killed at least 40 people on packed Moscow metro trains during the rush hour on Monday.
The first bomb tore through a metro train just before 8 a.m. as it stood at the Lubyanka station, close to the headquarters of the FSB. A second bomb was detonated less than 40 minutes later in a train waiting at the Park Kultury metro station.
The suicide bombings in Moscow and Dagestan follow a surge of violence over the past year in the patchwork of North Caucasus republics, where Russia has fought two wars against Chechen separatists since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.
Russia's FSB security chief Alexander Bortnikov has blamed militant groups linked to the North Caucasus for the attacks but given no further details on the investigation.
Islamist Chechen rebels claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the Moscow metro bombings and threatened further attacks against Russian cities.
Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov, who calls himself the "Emir of the Caucasus Emirate," said he had ordered the twin suicide bombings in Moscow to "destroy infidels" and in revenge for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's policies in the North Caucasus.
(Additional reporting by Conor Humphries, editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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Apr 02, 2010 10:16am EDT
Since 1993, Russian Army and Security forces have killed more than 100,000 Chechen civilians. This is a direct result of Putin’s unreasonable and criminal policy.
Numerous indiscriminate and extrajudicial killings by Russian security forces lead to despair among millions of Muslims, natives of North Caucasus.
Kremlin’s crimes will result in disintegration of Russia.
ZviadKavteli
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Apr 02, 2010 10:32am EDT
The real Black Widow is Natasha Romanov.
drewbie
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Apr 02, 2010 11:20am EDT
@ZviadKavteli, have there been any human rights or epidemiological studies confirming your estimate of 100,000 deaths? Eg, a Lancet study as there was indicting over 1 million Iraqis killed during the US invasion/occupation of that country?
The killing of non-combatants by either side, even if “only” 50 as opposed to 100,000 is clearly un-Islamic and against the teachings of the Prophet (pbuh) and what Muslims believe is the revealed word of God. (I myself am not Muslim but agree with Islam’s teachings in this regard.)
All this is confirmed in the Amman fatwa of July 6, 2005, and numerous other declarations and fatwas from every major Muslim school of thought, whether Sunni, Shia or Sufi. A representative list my be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amman_Message
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