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The attack is happened now and the converter was back in 2011. Merely on the basis of ‘marked suspect’, doesn’t means he’s the actual culprit.
The suspect in the suicide bombing of the Volgograd train station — the first of back-to-back attacks in the Russian city — has been identified as a recent convert to Islam who rebuffed his parents’ plea to leave the insurgency and come home.
Police say Pavel Pechyonkin, a former paramedic, carried out the blast that killed 18 people and renewed concerns about security for the Winter Olympics in Sochi six weeks from now.
A second bombing less than 24 hours later blew a trolley bus to bits and killed 13 people. No suspect has been identified in that attack.
Pechyonkin, 26, reportedly converted to radical Islam in 2011 and when he went underground, his parents feared he had joined an armed group in Dagestan, Russian and foreign media reported.
They posted a video online appealing for him to return.
The Russian president met with officials and visited some of the hospitalized after a series of bombings in the city, including one at the city’s main train station Sunday that killed at least 34 people.
“Come home,” his mother said in the video. "We see how many people die because of people like you.
His father added, “Don’t harm people…not matter what their religion.”
Pechyonkin was unswayed and posted a video response.
“It is not easy to go this way, the way of jihad,” he said. "But Allah makes us strong.’
Russian bombing suspect spoke of ‘way of Jihad’ - World News
Russia bombings raise questions about Sochi Olympics security - CNN.com
