Deadly blast at Moscow's Domodedovo airport : 31 Killed

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Russian airport bomber identified

Russian investigators have traced the deadly Moscow airport bombing earlier this week to the country's restive southern region that includes Chechnya.

The Investigative Committee has identified the suicide bomber as a 20-year-old man from Northern Caucasus, said the committee's spokesman on Saturday.

The bomb killed 35 people and wounded 180 at Domodedovo airport on Monday.

"The act of terrorism at Domodedovo has been solved," said spokesman Vladimir Markin in a short statement.

"Even though the investigators know the man's name we won't disclose it today because the search is on for the attack masterminds and their accomplices," the Interfax news wire quoted Mr. Markin as saying. He added that the attackers had targeted foreigners and therefore bombed the international arrival hall at Domodedovo.

Investigators have also detained four people and are looking for several more persons for their involvement in an accidental explosion that killed a suspected "black widow" suicide bomber at a rented cabin in a Moscow sports club on December 31.

"A terrorist group planned to carry out a terrorist attack in the centre of Moscow on New Year eve," said the spokesman.

He denied the incident was linked to the airport bombing, saying the two blasts were the work of unconnected armed gangs operating in different regions of Northern Caucasus.

A newspaper report suggested that the December 31 bomb was to be set off by a text message sent to the "black widow's" mobile phone when she would mix with crowds celebrating the New Year in Red Square. However, the bomb was caused to go off earlier by a greetings message from the phone company.

Report: The Hindu
 

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Russian airport bomber identified

Russian investigators have traced the deadly Moscow airport bombing earlier this week to the country's restive southern region that includes Chechnya.

The Investigative Committee has identified the suicide bomber as a 20-year-old man from Northern Caucasus, said the committee's spokesman on Saturday.

The bomb killed 35 people and wounded 180 at Domodedovo airport on Monday.

"The act of terrorism at Domodedovo has been solved," said spokesman Vladimir Markin in a short statement.

"Even though the investigators know the man's name we won't disclose it today because the search is on for the attack masterminds and their accomplices," the Interfax news wire quoted Mr. Markin as saying. He added that the attackers had targeted foreigners and therefore bombed the international arrival hall at Domodedovo.

Investigators have also detained four people and are looking for several more persons for their involvement in an accidental explosion that killed a suspected "black widow" suicide bomber at a rented cabin in a Moscow sports club on December 31.

"A terrorist group planned to carry out a terrorist attack in the centre of Moscow on New Year eve," said the spokesman.

He denied the incident was linked to the airport bombing, saying the two blasts were the work of unconnected armed gangs operating in different regions of Northern Caucasus.

A newspaper report suggested that the December 31 bomb was to be set off by a text message sent to the "black widow's" mobile phone when she would mix with crowds celebrating the New Year in Red Square. However, the bomb was caused to go off earlier by a greetings message from the phone company.

Report: The Hindu
 

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Chechen warlord Doku Umarov admits Moscow airport bomb

Chechen warlord Doku Umarov admits Moscow airport bomb

8 February 2011; BBC News

One of Russia's most wanted men, Chechen warlord Doku Umarov, has said he ordered the deadly bomb attack last month on a Moscow airport.

The suicide attack on the arrivals area of Domodedovo international airport on 24 January left 36 people dead and 180 injured.

In a video posted online, Mr Umarov said the attack was a response to "Russian crimes in the Caucasus".

Similar suicide attacks would continue, he added, speaking in Russian.

Mr Umarov is self-styled leader of the "Caucasus Emirate" and is considered the head of the Islamist militant insurgency in the North Caucasus. He is one of the few prominent Chechen rebels still active, having served as security minister in the Chechen separatist government from 1996-99.

Another video of the rebel leader was posted online late on Friday last week in which he threatened a year of "blood and tears" but made no explicit reference to the airport bombing.


Doku Umarov has previously claimed the March 2010 suicide bombings on the Moscow Metro in which 39 people died, and is said to have ordered the November 2009 bombing of a train from Moscow to St Petersburg that left 26 dead.

'On my orders'

The video which appeared on the Kavkaz Tsentr website is dated 24 January, the day of the attack.

Appearing alone, dressed in combat fatigues, Mr Umarov speaks to the camera: "This special operation was carried out on my orders and, God willing, special operations like it will continue to be carried out."

He goes on to argue that Muslims are under attack all over the world, talking at length about the situation in Sudan, and condemns "Zionist and Christian regimes led by Israel and America".

Mr Umarov says that he and his fighters "are waging jihad in the Caucasus today to establish the word of Allah", and there are "hundreds more brothers" ready to sacrifice themselves to that end, in the fight with Russia's "racist regime".

Promising "regular, deeper and more aggressive operations", he says he wishes that so much blood did not have to be spilt for Russia to "leave the Caucasus".

'Special operation'

Russian investigators say the suicide bomber who struck at Domodedovo Airport was a 20-year-old man from the North Caucasus.

Although the attacker has not been named officially, unnamed officials told the Interfax news agency on Sunday that he was believed to be Magomed Yevloyev from a village in Ingushetia in the northern Caucasus.

In the video of Doku Umarov posted last Friday, the rebel leader is flanked by two men, one of whom the rebel leader claims is preparing a "special operation". Russian media have suggested that the man in the video, named "Seifullah" by Mr Umarov, was Yevloyev.

At least seven foreigners were killed in the bombing at the airport - the busiest serving the Russian capital. The arrivals hall was full of people as several international flights had just landed.

Those killed included one person each from Britain, Germany, Austria, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. At least 16 Russians were also among the dead.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sacked several officials - said to include a regional transport chief and a Moscow police deputy head - after the bombing, blaming them for poor security.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12388681
 

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