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| Attack at Domodedovo committed by North Caucasian native |
| 2011-01-29 |
| MOSCOW (Itar-Tass) -- The suicide bomber who set off the explosive device is identified -- it is a 20-year-old native of a North Caucasian republic, the Investigation CommitteeÂ’s spokesman Vladimir Markin said. "Though the investigators know the name of the terrorist, we will not give it today, as investigation and operative search work is underway now to establish and arrest the organisers and the accomplices of the terrorist act," Markin noted. The official said investigators of the main department of the Russian Investigation Committee together with operatives of the Federal Security Service and the Interior Ministry had solved the crime committed at Domodedovo airport on January 24. "I particularly note that the terrorist act was committed in the international arrivals hall not accidentally. According to the investigators' version, it was aimed first of all against foreign citizens," Markin said. The investigators are ready to make public the results of the investigation into another terrorist crime. All the persons involved in the explosion that took place in a hotel room at the sport shooting club located at Golovachev Street in Moscow on December 31, 2010, are identified, Markin said. Some of the suspects are already taken into custody. Under consideration is placing of four of them under arrest. Several are sought by operatives. According to the investigators, the group of terrorists prepared a terrorist attack to be committed in central Moscow on December 31, the official said. He particularly noted that the investigation established that the attack at Domodedovo and the explosion in the hotel complex were committed by armed groups that operated in North Caucasian republics, but were not connected with each other. |
| Posted by:Steve White |