This is the teenage “Black Widow” suicide bomber thought to be responsible for this week’s Russian underground bombings posing with her dead militant rebel husband.
The baby-faced bomber was named as Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, a 17-year-old widow of a Dagestani Islamist rebel killed in 2009, Umalat Magomedov, Russian media reported.
A Russian newspaper published the chilling photograph of Abdurakhmanova in an Islamic headscarf with Magomedov. Both are posing casually with pistols.
The Chechen leader of the Islamist “Emirate of the Caucasus” Doku Umarov, (aka Dokka Abu Usman) has claimed responsibility for this week’s Moscow metro bombings that killed 39, The Kavkav Centre, a Chechen internet site, said Wednesday.
In his video statement recorded on Monday, Umarov said the attack was to avenge “the massacre by Russian invaders of the poorest residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia, who were picking wild garlic in the Arshty village on February 11, 2010, to feed their families.”
Umarov, whose claim was also confirmed by the SITE monitoring group, warned of fresh strikes against Russia, saying the troops stabbed their victims to death and then “mocked” their corpses.
The old Vladimir Putin is back, confronting a terrorist attack in Moscow by using the same kind of coarse and colorful language that helped him win the presidency a decade ago.
A day after twin suicide bombings in the subway that killed 39 people, the powerful prime minister told Russians that he is certain the masterminds of the attacks would be found. The security services have blamed extremists from the North Caucasus, a predominantly Muslim region in southern Russia that includes Chechnya.
“We know they are lying low, but it is already a matter of pride for the law enforcement agencies to drag them out of the sewer and into broad daylight,” Putin said, directing a transportation security meeting that was shown on Russian television Tuesday.
Two female homicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow’s subway system as it was jam-packed with rush-hour passengers Monday, killing at least 38 people and wounding 102, officials said.
The head of Russia’s main security agency said preliminary investigation places the blame on rebels from the restive Caucasus region that includes Chechnya, where separatists have fought Russian forces since the mid-1990s.
The first explosion took place just before 8 a.m. at the Lubyanka station in central Moscow. The station is underneath the building that houses the main offices of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the KGB’s main successor agency.
Russia will not support “crippling” sanctions against Iran, including any that may be slapped on the Islamic Republic’s banking or energy sectors, a senior Russian diplomat said Wednesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Moscow last week to press the Kremlin to back tougher sanctions against Iran over its suspected nuclear weapons project.
This week, Netanyahu called for an immediate embargo on Iran’s energy sector.
