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| Suicide bomber wannabe nabbed in Chechnya | |
| 2012-06-28 | |
| Chechen police have detained a 19-year-old woman who they say was recruited by an militant group to carry out a suicide attack in neighboring Dagestan, said a spokesman for the Chechen Interior Ministry. The woman, who lives in the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, was arrested in the Chechnya's capital Grozny. Police also obtained what they said was a martyrdom letter addressed to the womanÂ’s relatives along with extremist literature. The woman has claimed to be innocent. She told police she was travelling to Dagestan to study Islam at a religious school. She said that none of her relatives knew about her trip.
Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov said extremists often use young people “to achieve their villainous and malicious goals.” The would-be suicide bomber’s husband was in jail, and the recruiters have apparently “found the woman’s raw spot – her unfortunate personal life,” which they used to persuade her to carry out the attack. | |
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