Hometown of Russian suicide bomber rattled

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Source: yahoo/AP

By ARSEN MOLLAYEV, Associated Press Writer Arsen Mollayev, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 47 mins ago


KOSTEK, Russia – When a 16-year-old girl married a militant Islamist separatist entangled in a long-running and bloody struggle against Russian government forces, her relatives in this dusty North Caucasus village say they disowned her immediately.

They knew they could face torture from Russian security forces or even death for associating with the militants, and they knew their Dzhanet Abdurakhmanova, still just a schoolgirl, could easily be killed

But they never expected her to be dispatched to Moscow as a suicide bomber to blow herself up on a subway train.

Abdurakhmanova, whose husband was killed by government forces in December, and another young widow have been accused of carrying out Monday's twin suicide bombings, which killed 40 people and injured 90. They were the first suicide attacks in the capital since 2004.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100403/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_violence

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