Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, left, posing with her late husband Umalat Magomedov, who was killed in 2009. ( AFP Photo/Newsteam)
Teenager Named ‘Paradise’ Identified as Perpetrator of Moscow Metro Attack (click here)
Moscow. She was a 17-year-old girl from a village deep in the North Caucasus with a baby face and a name meaning paradise. Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova is suspected of strapping several kilograms of explosives to her body on March 29 and heading into the bustling Moscow metro with a female companion.
She then detonated her explosives at a metro station, killing more than 20 people. Forty minutes later, the other woman blew herself up at another Moscow station. Later, investigators would find her severed head, smeared in blood, on the metro platform.
Like other Muslim Russian women who carried out suicide bombings earlier in the decade, Abdurakhmanova was a “Black Widow”, the wife of a leading Caucasus militant killed by the Russian security forces.
“Her identity has been confirmed and checked out in several directions. It’s been established with almost 100 percent certainty that it was she who carried out the act,” Interfax quoted a Dagestan security source as saying.
Recent photographs published on Friday showed Abdurakhmanova posing in an Islamic headscarf with her late husband, Umalat Magomedov.
Abdurakhmanova proudly points a pistol to the sky. Her husband is holding a larger weapon....
Holy Fire arrives in Moscow, taken to main cathedral (click here)
The Holy Fire from Jerusalem arrived at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport on Saturday evening and was taken to Christ the Savior Cathedral, the Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called said on Saturday.
A special flight with a delegation of Russian religious, government and public figures landed at 22:30 Moscow time, where it was greeted by hundreds of believers.
The Holy Fire that is lit every year at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on the day preceding Orthodox Easter is believed by Orthodox Christians to be a miracle.
From Moscow the Holy Fire, which pilgrims say does not burn in the first minutes after it has been lit, is "distributed" among churches in containers similar to those used to transport the Olympic flame.
This year it will be taken to the Voskresensky Monastery for the first time. The Moscow Region monastery, better known as the New Jerusalem, was founded by Patriarch Nikon in 1656 in accordance with a popular sentiment that Moscow was the Third Rome, the last stronghold of Orthodox Christianity.
Every Orthodox church in Russia holds Paschal liturgies on the night of Holy Saturday that last well into Easter morning.
MOSCOW, April 3 (RIA Novosti)
"We know that in the given situation they (terrorists) are hiding on the bottom, but it is a prestige issue for the law enforcement agencies to pick them out in to the sunlight from the bottom of the stinking sewer. And I am confident that this will be done," Putin said.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow is well informed about the so-called "no-man's land" on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the terrorist underground has entrenched itself...
