21 June 2010, 23:00
Sunday Times' photographer: Sharipova who blew her up in Moscow did not look like a committed terrorist
Video clips have been published, in which, supposedly, the natives of Dagestan Janet Abdurakhmanova and Maryam Sharipova - suicide bombers on March 29 in Moscow metro, justified the motives of their actions.
The video appeals appeared in one of radical websites on May 30; but they are not accessible from Russia. As reported by the British newspaper The Sunday Times, the women, who speak in the clips, are covered by dense black yashmaks; thus, it is rather problematic to define that they are Abdurakhmanova and Sharipova.
In one of them, supposedly, Janet Abdurakhmanova, who is sitting on the carpet next to a sub-machine gun, says that she had concluded an agreement with the Allah in exchange for a place in the paradise. In the second video another woman, presumably, Maryam Sharipova, looks less confident; she also tells about her decision to become a shahid. The newspaper writes that Sharipova periodically sighs deeply, loses her thought and looks sooner like a person who has accepted her fate than a committed one like Abdurakhmanova.
The paper also asserts that only three weeks before the Moscow explosions Dmitri Belyakov, a photographer of The Sunday Times lived in the house of Sharipova during his business trip to Dagestan. The girl did not impress him as a radical Islamist. Maryam's father Rasul Magomedov believes that his daughter had been tortured and forced to blow her up.
