GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov claims responsibility for Moscow airport attack

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Christian Science Monitor

08February2011 10:19amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility for last month’s deadly bombing of Moscow's Domodedovo Airport in a video posted online late Monday. The video of Russia’s most-wanted criminal was the second to surface in the past few days, stoking fears of further acts of terrorism by radical Caucasus groups.

Mr. Umarov said in the video that he ordered the Jan. 24 attack on Russia’s largest airport, which killed 36 people and injured 180, and warned that more bombings will follow if Russia does not grant the Caucasus independence.

"You see this special operation carried out by my order ... more special operations will be carried out in the future," Mr. Umarov said in the video, as translated from Russian by the Associated Press. (read full report)

 

 

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