Islamists silent on Russia's blame for airport blast

MOSCOW — Russia's Caucasus rebels remained conspicuously silent Sunday after investigators pinned the blame for a Moscow airport bombing that killed 35 people on a 20-year-old man from the restless region.

The Investigative Committee reported in Saturday findings that the suicide bomber was specifically targeting foreigners when he set off his charge on January 24 at the international arrivals hall of Russia's busiest airport.

The Domodedovo blast killed eight foreign nationals in an attack that -- if Moscow's claims are true -- would appear to mark a fundamental shift in the strategy followed by Islamists in their 15-year campaign against Russian rule.

"According to investigators, the act of terror was first and foremost aimed against foreign citizens," Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said in televised remarks.

The investigator refused to give the suicide bomber's name or the republic he came from because the police were still on the hunt for the masterminds of the bloody strike.

Militants from the North Caucasus -- a predominantly Muslim region that besides Chechnya also includes the impoverished republics of Dagestan and Ingushetia -- have claimed responsibility for most other recent bombings.

But no Islamist organisation or leader has taken credit for an attack that came less than a year after a twin suicide bombing killed 40 people on their way to work on the Moscow subway.

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