Police confirmed Wednesday that a deadly explosion outside the National Hotel on Tuesday was the work of a female suicide bomber and said they were combing the city for a suspected accomplice. Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Tuesday’s bombing, which killed six, was "a manifestation of international terrorism, according to its handwriting, its character and its content." Russia "does not see yesterday’s terrorist act in Moscow as a manifestation of Chechen terrorism," Ivanov said during a visit to Berlin. "The ethnic origins of those who carried out this terrorist act have no bearing on this case."
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The Federal Security Service said it believed the al-Qaida terrorist network was involved.
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A Moscow prosecutor linked the attack to a series of recent blasts, including the train bombing in the Stavropol region on Friday that killed 44 and the double suicide bombings at the Tushino rock concert in July that killed 16. "All these blasts were organized by a single group and coordinated from a single center," Prosecutor Grigory Shinakov said.
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