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by Philip P. Pan

moscow — Russian authorities

said Friday that one of the two suicide bombers who struck the Moscow subway system this week was the 17-year-old widow of an Islamist rebel leader, and officials circulated unsettling photos of the cherub-faced teenager bran- dishing a handgun and a grenade. Citing genetic evidence, law en- forcement agencies said the

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young woman, Dzhanet Abdul- layeva, set off the second of the two explosions that killed 40 peo- ple and injured more than 80 dur- ing Mondaymorning’s rush hour. Officials said she grew up about 40 miles from the site of another double bombing Wednesday in Dagestan, east of Chechnya in the volatile North Caucasus. Author- ities have said the attack, which killed 12 people, most of them po- lice officers, may have been orga- nized by the same group that

planned the Moscow bombings. Abdullayeva’s hometown, Kha-

savyurt, was the scene of a New Year’s Eve shootout between in- surgents and security forces that killed her husband, Umulat Ma- gomedov, 30, a leader in the in- surgency, which seeks to set up an Islamist emirate in the region. The Russian daily Kommersant published a photo of the couple together, his arm draped around her and holding a large military pistol across her chest. Abdullaye-

va’s childlike face is framed by a black head scarf, and she tilts her head toward his as she points a handgun in the air. Another Russian newspaper,

Moskovsky Komsomolets, report- ed the recovery of fragments of a love letter near what remained of Abdullayeva’s body. Kommersant said the girl met the rebel leader through the Internet when she was 16. The newspaper also said investigators had tentatively identified the oth-

er suicide bomber in Moscow as the 20-year-old widow of a mil- itant leader who was killed in Oc- tober. The disclosures are sure to fan fears of what Russians call “black widows,” women from the North Caucasus who blow themselves up in crowds after their husbands or other loved ones are killed by Russian security forces.

Early in the past decade, more than a dozen women carried out such attacks on military bases,

SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 2010

One Moscow suicide bomber was teenage widow of Islamist rebel leader

hotels, theaters, cafes and planes. The bombings seemed to have stopped in 2004 but resumed in late 2008. Still, the attack on the subway

stations, the first in the Russian capital in nearly six years, caught authorities off guard. Rebel lead- er Doku Umarov has asserted re- sponsibility and said it was in re- taliation for what he called atroci- ties committed by the government’s forces.

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