Russia’s Deadly Black Widow Cult That Threatens Olympians
The leader of the group is Doku Umarov, a 49-year-old former oil construction engineer turned Islamic war lord and now dubbed the country’s Osama bin Laden.
The US government has placed a $5 million bounty on the head of the Chechen-born self-proclaimed emir of a new Muslim state he calls the Caucasus Emirate.
Umarov has made a direct threat against the February 7-23 Sochi Games, saying it was his holy duty to prevent them from taking place.
Wanted: Black widow Oksana Aslanova (right) before her conversion to Islam (left). Picture: Supplied. Source: Supplied
Authorities believe Umarov is operating his terrorist movement out of the strife-torn southern republic of Dagestan, which lies between the Caucasus mountains and the Caspian Sea.
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