Police probe Islamists for Moscow blast
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January 28, 2011, Friday
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INVESTIGATORS probing the deadly bombing at a Moscow airport are looking at up to 10 people from the volatile Caucasus region as possible suspects, a Russian state news agency reported yesterday.
Suspicions over the Monday blast at Domodedovo Airport that killed 35 people and wounded 180 initially fell on Chechen rebels who have claimed responsibility for deadly attacks over the years, including ones against the Moscow subway and at the same airport.
No one has yet claimed responsibility and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin insisted on Wednesday there was no initial indication of a Chechen connection.
However, Chechen rebels have inspired Islamist insurgent activity elsewhere in the Caucasus and the state RIA Novosti agency said up to 10 people from the region are being viewed as possible suspects.
The Kommersant newspaper reported yesterday that police attention is focusing on an insurgent group called the Nogai Brigade, which reportedly observes the strict Wahhabi form of Islam. The group emerged in the early part of the last decade in the Stavropol region and sided with Chechen separatist groups.
Kommersant, citing a source close to the bombing probe, said an ethnic Russian member of the group was of particular interest to investigators. The man is believed to be connected to a woman arrested in January for allegedly planning a suicide -bombing in Moscow.
That arrest followed a New Year's Eve explosion on the outskirts of Moscow that killed one woman. The newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets said the victim was believed to be preparing a bomb to attack a -holiday gathering but it was inadvertently triggered early when the cell phone provider sent a holiday greetings text message.
Suspicions over the Monday blast at Domodedovo Airport that killed 35 people and wounded 180 initially fell on Chechen rebels who have claimed responsibility for deadly attacks over the years, including ones against the Moscow subway and at the same airport.
No one has yet claimed responsibility and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin insisted on Wednesday there was no initial indication of a Chechen connection.
However, Chechen rebels have inspired Islamist insurgent activity elsewhere in the Caucasus and the state RIA Novosti agency said up to 10 people from the region are being viewed as possible suspects.
The Kommersant newspaper reported yesterday that police attention is focusing on an insurgent group called the Nogai Brigade, which reportedly observes the strict Wahhabi form of Islam. The group emerged in the early part of the last decade in the Stavropol region and sided with Chechen separatist groups.
Kommersant, citing a source close to the bombing probe, said an ethnic Russian member of the group was of particular interest to investigators. The man is believed to be connected to a woman arrested in January for allegedly planning a suicide -bombing in Moscow.
That arrest followed a New Year's Eve explosion on the outskirts of Moscow that killed one woman. The newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets said the victim was believed to be preparing a bomb to attack a -holiday gathering but it was inadvertently triggered early when the cell phone provider sent a holiday greetings text message.
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