MIA: assassinated Yakubov who planned a terror act on May 9 in Chechnya was a Dagestan resident

Ruslan Alkhanov, Chechen Interior Minister, has reported today that the terrorist who had planned to commit a terror act on May 9 was identified. According to his story, he was a resident of Dagestan.

Let us remind you that according to law enforcement bodies, on May 8 a suicide-bomber was liquidated in the Grozny District of the Chechen Republic. Militiamen, on duty at the post, noticed a suspicious man and asked him to show his documents, but he, as the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) asserts, tried to trigger his explosive device, but militiamen were first to shoot him dead.

The would-be suicide bomber was identified as Yakubov, Islam Khizrailovich, 23, a resident of the city of Khasavyurt (Dagestan), as the ITAR-TASS reports. According to Minister Alkhanov, the casualty had planned to commit a self-suicidal terror act in the course of May 9 celebrations.

An activist of a local NGO expressed doubt that the liquidated person had really planned a terror act, as law enforcement bodies assert.

"In this story I'm confused with some circumstances. Firstly, why law enforcement bodies failed to announce immediately how much explosive was in his 'shahid belt'? How could they manage to define a terrorist in order to stop him when he was just approaching their post? And, thirdly, what the source of information was that the young man had really planned to blow him up on May 9," asked the member of the Chechen public organization, engaged in human rights activities and monitoring of the local situation.

The source of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent noted that "all these power agents' victorious statements and reports about their achievements remind a PR-campaign, rather than a real war on terror." "What was the sense to put on the belt stuffed with explosive on May 8, if he was going to blow him up only on the following day?" asked the human rights activist and added that the militiamen's version about the liquidated terrorist-suicide bomber seemed quite unrealistic to him.

"Last year we had terror acts here, in the republic, with participation of suicide-bombers; and later information appeared that those 'shahids' were trained not by Arabian instructors and people like Said Buryatskiy, but by a head of one militia division, who was later sacked without any further information about his fate. At least one of the latest self-suicidal explosions of a woman, which took place in Grozny near the Fashion House, was, as eyewitnesses told, very suspicious (the explosion on September 16 last year, - comment of the "Caucasian Knot"). It looked like someone tried to push the woman out of a militia car, but she grasped the door and would not get out; then, militiamen jumped out of the car, and at that moment the explosion happened. The name of that 'female suicide-bomber' was never disclosed later," said the source.