Militant leader says all Russia is a `battleground`
MOSCOW – The leader of an Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus says Osama bin Laden's death will not stop violence and called Russia a "battleground", Radio Liberty reported.
Doku Umarov leads an insurgency seeking to carve out a "Caucasus Emirate" comprising war-scarred Chechnya and other mainly Muslim regions in the North Caucasus.
Umarov said in an interview posted on May 17 on insurgency-affiliated site kavkazcenter.com that "the battlefield is not just Chechnya or the Caucasus Emirate, but the whole of Russia."
Umarov has claimed responsibility for attacks elsewhere in Russia, including a suicide bombing that killed 37 people at Moscow's busiest airport in January and twin bombings that killed 40 on Moscow's metro in March 2010.
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