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Doku Umarov was born in April 1964 in the small village of Kharsenoi (Kharsenoy) in the southern Shatoysky District region of the Chechen–Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, into what he described as an intelligentsia family [14] belonging the Malkoy teip (the same clan as the warlord Arbi Barayev and Chechnya's former foreign ...
It was reported that Doku Umarov had planned to follow the Domodedovo attack with two additional bombings in Moscow. An attack in Moscow's Red Square was planned for New Year's Eve, 2011, but it was foiled when the suicide bomber accidentally triggered the bomb in a hotel room in Kuzminki District, killing herself in the explosion. [41]
However, the attack followed a warning from Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov the prior month of his intent to spread the Caucasian insurgency to Russian cities. [56] Two days following the blasts, in a video message posted on a Chechen rebel website, Umarov claimed that his group was behind the bombings and that he had ordered the attacks.
MOSCOW (AP) - A suicide bomber struck a busy railway station in southern Russia on Sunday, killing at least 15 others and wounding scores more, officials said, in a stark reminder of the threat ...
As of early 2009 there were close to 480 active insurgents situated in the mountains under leadership of field commander Doku Umarov, according to official data. [3] Clashes with insurgents also continued in other regions of North Caucasus in 2009.
Since the 1991 Chechen Revolution, Chechnya has had several leaders, representing both pro- and anti-Russian forces. This article lists the heads of state and government of both the nationalist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and the Russian-backed Chechen Republic, as well as the leaders of the jihadist Caucasus Emirate.
The Caucasian Knot reported that its local experts said the attack was probably organised by Gakayev, Vadalov and others who are now "out of Umarov's hands". [18] Akhmed Zakayev denied responsibility for the attack. His assistant condemned it and said that Zakayev has "always spoken against this sort of actions". [18]
This suicide bombing was later taken responsibility for by Doku Umarov, the self-proclaimed leader of the Caucasus Emirate of the North Caucasus region. In Elbrus , Kabardino-Balkaria , it was reported that Russian security forces discovered a militant camp, used by some 8 militants, within this particular district of the republic.