Subway bomber was 'black widow'
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April 3, 2010, Saturday
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A 17-YEAR-OLD widow of a Islamist rebel was one of the two female suicide bombers who attacked Moscow's subway, a leading Russian newspaper claimed yesterday, as President Dmitry Medvedev announced new measures to crack down on terrorism.
The death toll from Monday's subway bombings in Moscow rose to 40 yesterday as a man died in the hospital of his injuries. At least 90 others were injured in the blasts.
Medvedev, himself a lawyer, said the laws should be broadened so that those who help terrorists even in small ways -- "by making soup or washing clothes" -- are punished.
The Kommersant newspaper reported that the Moscow subway bombers came from Dagestan and Chechnya, two neighboring, predominantly Muslim provinces in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region.
Dagestan was the site of two subsequent suicide bombings on Wednesday that killed 12 people, mostly police officers, and another explosion on Thursday that killed two suspected militants.
Federal and local officials in Dagestan refused to comment yesterday on the newspaper report. A Chechen militant leader on Thursday claimed responsibility for the subway bombings.
Kommersant published a photograph of a young woman dressed in a black Muslim headscarf and holding a pistol. It named her as Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova from Dagestan, saying she was also known as Dzhennet Abdullayeva.
A man with his arm around her, also holding a gun, is identified as Umalat Magomedov, whom the paper describes as an Islamist militant leader killed by government forces in December.
The report said the second bomber has been tentatively identified as 20-year-old Markha Ustarkhanova from Chechnya.
On Thursday, the paper said she was the widow of a militant leader killed last October while preparing to assassinate Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, who is backed by the Kremlin.
Female suicide bombers from the North Caucasus are referred to in Russia as "black widows" because many of them are the wives, or other relatives, of militants killed by security forces.
The death toll from Monday's subway bombings in Moscow rose to 40 yesterday as a man died in the hospital of his injuries. At least 90 others were injured in the blasts.
Medvedev, himself a lawyer, said the laws should be broadened so that those who help terrorists even in small ways -- "by making soup or washing clothes" -- are punished.
The Kommersant newspaper reported that the Moscow subway bombers came from Dagestan and Chechnya, two neighboring, predominantly Muslim provinces in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region.
Dagestan was the site of two subsequent suicide bombings on Wednesday that killed 12 people, mostly police officers, and another explosion on Thursday that killed two suspected militants.
Federal and local officials in Dagestan refused to comment yesterday on the newspaper report. A Chechen militant leader on Thursday claimed responsibility for the subway bombings.
Kommersant published a photograph of a young woman dressed in a black Muslim headscarf and holding a pistol. It named her as Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova from Dagestan, saying she was also known as Dzhennet Abdullayeva.
A man with his arm around her, also holding a gun, is identified as Umalat Magomedov, whom the paper describes as an Islamist militant leader killed by government forces in December.
The report said the second bomber has been tentatively identified as 20-year-old Markha Ustarkhanova from Chechnya.
On Thursday, the paper said she was the widow of a militant leader killed last October while preparing to assassinate Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, who is backed by the Kremlin.
Female suicide bombers from the North Caucasus are referred to in Russia as "black widows" because many of them are the wives, or other relatives, of militants killed by security forces.
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