“Sokolov, who went missing in July 2012, converted to Islam and is believed to have developed an interest in explosives.” What a coincidence!
Divorce might have been easier, but not nearly as satisfying: “Husband ‘prepared’ Russian bomber for fatal bus attack: Report,” from AFP, October 22 (thanks to Lookmann):
Moscow: The female suicide bomber who killed six people on a bus in southern Russia had been sent on her mission by her husband, a young guerrilla fighter who prepared her explosive belt, media reports said on Tuesday.
Yesterday’s blast in the southern city of Volgograd, which also injured more than 30 people, was the deadliest attack outside the volatile North Caucasus in the past three years….
Militants want to establish an Islamist state across the North Caucasus.
In July, guerrilla commander Doku Umarov vowed to resume attacks against civilian targets after a brief hiatus, and to also target the February 7-23 Sochi Games.Police yesterday identified the Volgograd suicide bomber as 30-year-old Naida Asiyalova, a native of the North Caucasus region of Dagestan.
The mass-circulation Komsomolskaya Pravda daily said Asiyalova was a known figure among the country’s Islamist fighters.
The pro-Kremlin Izvestia daily added that she had met her 22-year-old husband Dmitry Sokolov — an ethnic Russian — online.
Komsomolskaya Pravda said Asiyalova had introduced her husband to militants, adding that he received the Islamic name Abdulzhabar but was also known under the nickname “Giraffe.”
Russian officials said today they were now looking for Sokolov in Dagestan as well as Moscow.
Sokolov, who went missing in July 2012, converted to Islam and is believed to have developed an interest in explosives.
The newspaper said that Sokolov is believed to have made Asiyalova’s suicide belt….
Nothing says love like a bomb vest.