MOSCOW/ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA ¨C Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, the man suspected of blowing up a Russian metro train, represents a new wave of radical Islamists who blend into local society away from existing jihadi movements ¡ª making it harder for security forces to stop their attacks.
His pages on the Russian equivalent of Facebook show his interest in Wahabbism, a conservative and hard-line branch of Islam. But they give no indication that he might resort to violence, presenting a picture of a typical young man leading a largely secular life.
Fourteen people were killed and 50 wounded in the suicide bomb attack on Monday on a metro car in St. Petersburg. Russian state investigators said the suspected bomber was Dzhalilov, a 23-year-old born in the mainly Muslim ex-Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan.
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