The Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing last month in one of the airports in Moscow and threatened further similar actions, part of a campaign of growing Islamic insurgency in southern Russia. Uamarov's statement in a video posted on Monday night will likely increase the fear that grips the Muscovites.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whose popularity depends on how hard that addresses the insurgents, recently admitted that Russia should learn from foreign experience in combating terrorsimo. The attack on 24 January in Domodedovo airport killed 36 people and wounded 180. Russian investigators said the bomber was a 20 year old resident of the Caucasus, where Chechnya is settled, but declined to provide his identity or other details.
Security controls parliament on Tuesday behind closed doors on the progress of investigations. Vladimir Vasilyev, head of the parliamentary committee on security, later told reporters that at least two people were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack. The arrests are apparently related to the announcement last week, according to which several people suspected of having information about the attack had been arrested.
Vasilyev and other lawmakers said security forces identified the attackers and their accomplices, but were ordered not to broadcast their identities. ''All the residents of our country should understand that we have to live long under the threat of terror,''acknowledged Vasilyev. His deputy, Gennady Gudkov, said an independent group of several insurgents carried out the attack, but added that Umarov could be related to the attack.
Gudkov said the insurgents operating in separate cells, making it difficult to chase. Umarov has claimed many terrorist attacks, including suicide twice last year in the Moscow subway that killed 40 people. He also said he ordered the bombing of the airport, to be followed by many more''special operations,''if Russia does not allow the Caucasus is an independent Islamic state governed by Sharia, the interpretation of Muslim religious law are fundamentalists. 
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, whose popularity depends on how hard that addresses the insurgents, recently admitted that Russia should learn from foreign experience in combating terrorsimo. The attack on 24 January in Domodedovo airport killed 36 people and wounded 180. Russian investigators said the bomber was a 20 year old resident of the Caucasus, where Chechnya is settled, but declined to provide his identity or other details.
Security controls parliament on Tuesday behind closed doors on the progress of investigations. Vladimir Vasilyev, head of the parliamentary committee on security, later told reporters that at least two people were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack. The arrests are apparently related to the announcement last week, according to which several people suspected of having information about the attack had been arrested.
Vasilyev and other lawmakers said security forces identified the attackers and their accomplices, but were ordered not to broadcast their identities. ''All the residents of our country should understand that we have to live long under the threat of terror,''acknowledged Vasilyev. His deputy, Gennady Gudkov, said an independent group of several insurgents carried out the attack, but added that Umarov could be related to the attack.
Gudkov said the insurgents operating in separate cells, making it difficult to chase. Umarov has claimed many terrorist attacks, including suicide twice last year in the Moscow subway that killed 40 people. He also said he ordered the bombing of the airport, to be followed by many more''special operations,''if Russia does not allow the Caucasus is an independent Islamic state governed by Sharia, the interpretation of Muslim religious law are fundamentalists.
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