Changing face of terror in Russia
Source: FT By Charles Clover Published: April 3 2010 03:00 | Last updated: April 3 2010 03:00 Posing for the camera, 17-year-old Dzhanet Abdurakhmanova brandishes a pistol and snuggles up to her husband, his own pistol-toting arm draped around her. On Friday, Ms Abdurakhmanova became the face of Islamist terrorism in Russia, after authorities announced that she was one of two female suicide bombers who carried out the deadliest terror attack in Russia for six years, killing 40 in the Moscow metro on Monday morning. She is thought to have detonated an explosive belt in Lubyanka metro station, killing at least 26. She and her husband, Umalat Magomedov,were foot soldiers in a shadowy grouping, the Caucasus Emirate, which claimed responsibility for the blasts on Wednesday. Like al-Qaeda and other Islamist terror groups, it is less of an organisation and more of a brand name for a loosely affiliated movement of autonomous warlords, bound by little more than ideology and hatred.