Moscow:
The 28-year-old Daghestani school teacher, who blew herself up at the Moscow Metro last week, was the widow of an Al-Qaida militant active in Russia's Caucasian region, a report said on Thursday.
The report established that both the blasts that killed 40 people in Moscow on March 29 were engineered by 'black widows', a term used to denote the female suicide bombers who act to avenge the deaths of their militant husbands.
The second bomber was identified as an IT school teacher Mariyam Sharipova, the widow of Caucasian militant 'Doctor Mohammad'.
The other bomber who attacked the Metro has been identified as 17-year-old Jannat Abdurahmanova, a resident of Daghestan's Khasavyurt district and the widow of Umalat Magomedov - a militant belonging to Daghestani Jamaat.
"The investigation suspects that Mariyam Sharipova, who blew herself on Lubyanka metro station on March 29, could have avenged death of her first husband - a terrorist known as Doctor Mohammad," Kommersant daily reported.
The Jordanian national known among the militants as 'Doctor Mohammad', had come to North Caucasus in mid-1990s along with another famous Jordanian militant Khattab and was lately representing Al-Qaida's interests in Russia's volatile, predominant Muslim regions.
He was killed on August 30, 2009 in a special operation in a remote village in Khasavyurt district of Daghestan, the daily reported quoting FSB security service sources.
'Doctor Mohammad' was a friend of active Daghestani militant Magomedali Vagapov, who later married his widow Mariyam, Kommersant reported.
It said it was a common practice among the militants to marry the widows of their slain friends.
Mariyam's brother Ilyas, who is absconding since the Moscow blasts, used to take her to her new husband Vagapov hiding in the forests.
"Such visits were undertaken on the pretext of seeing relatives in the neighbouring Akushinsky district.
"Their mother really visited relatives, but on the way Ilyas used to drop sister in the forest where she was picked up by the militants," Kommersant quoted a security source as saying.
The Jordanian was also well acquainted with militant leader Umalat Magomedov - the slain husband of 17-year-old suicide metro bomber Dzhannet (Jannat), who blew herself up at Park Kultury metro station.
However, the security agencies are not sure whether their widows knew each other closely, but there is no doubt that their husbands knew each other closely as they were active in the same Khasavyurt district, Kommersant wrote.
The report established that both the blasts that killed 40 people in Moscow on March 29 were engineered by 'black widows', a term used to denote the female suicide bombers who act to avenge the deaths of their militant husbands.
The second bomber was identified as an IT school teacher Mariyam Sharipova, the widow of Caucasian militant 'Doctor Mohammad'.
The other bomber who attacked the Metro has been identified as 17-year-old Jannat Abdurahmanova, a resident of Daghestan's Khasavyurt district and the widow of Umalat Magomedov - a militant belonging to Daghestani Jamaat.
"The investigation suspects that Mariyam Sharipova, who blew herself on Lubyanka metro station on March 29, could have avenged death of her first husband - a terrorist known as Doctor Mohammad," Kommersant daily reported.
The Jordanian national known among the militants as 'Doctor Mohammad', had come to North Caucasus in mid-1990s along with another famous Jordanian militant Khattab and was lately representing Al-Qaida's interests in Russia's volatile, predominant Muslim regions.
He was killed on August 30, 2009 in a special operation in a remote village in Khasavyurt district of Daghestan, the daily reported quoting FSB security service sources.
'Doctor Mohammad' was a friend of active Daghestani militant Magomedali Vagapov, who later married his widow Mariyam, Kommersant reported.
It said it was a common practice among the militants to marry the widows of their slain friends.
Mariyam's brother Ilyas, who is absconding since the Moscow blasts, used to take her to her new husband Vagapov hiding in the forests.
"Such visits were undertaken on the pretext of seeing relatives in the neighbouring Akushinsky district.
"Their mother really visited relatives, but on the way Ilyas used to drop sister in the forest where she was picked up by the militants," Kommersant quoted a security source as saying.
The Jordanian was also well acquainted with militant leader Umalat Magomedov - the slain husband of 17-year-old suicide metro bomber Dzhannet (Jannat), who blew herself up at Park Kultury metro station.
However, the security agencies are not sure whether their widows knew each other closely, but there is no doubt that their husbands knew each other closely as they were active in the same Khasavyurt district, Kommersant wrote.
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