Former Russian Olympic wrestler who became sick ISIS recruiter of teen girl suicide bombers is ‘killed US drone strike in Mosul’
The former European Champion was brainwashed by ISIS extremists
A FORMER Russian wrestler who defected to ISIS and was seen as a key recruiter of potential suicide bombers has been killed in Iraq.
Chamsulvara Chamsulvaraev, 32, is suspected of radicalising Diana Ramazanova, a pregnant teenager who blew herself up in Istanbul last year.
He was killed in a car strike by a US drone earlier this month near Mosul in northern Iraq, according to reports in Russia.
Earlier he had spent time in Saudi Arabia and Syria, said reports.
Chamsulvaraev is originally from Dagestan, a Muslim region of Russia on the Caspian Sea, but became an Azerbaijani citizen in order to have greater hopes winning medals.
He won the bronze medal at the European championships in 2007 and 2008 and took part in the Beijing Olympics.
In 2009 he won the second prize at the World Championship, and in 2010 he became European champion - but later was swayed by Islamic extremism.
His mother in law - named Karina, a former underground rebel - is accused of radicalising him.
After joining ISIS it is claimed he began recruiting teenage girls from the Caucasus region of the former USSR, inviting them to the Middle East in order to turn them into suicide bombers.
"His job in ISIS was hiring young girls and making them suicide bombers," reported gazeta.ru
Russian news outlets said he is suspected of recruiting 18 year old Ramazanova who blew herself up last year in Turkey.
Originally from Dagestan, the teenager detonated grenades in front of an Istanbul tourism police station in January 2015.
The 18-year-old is understood to have been the widow of an ISIS fighter killed in Syria.
Her uncle, Magomed Ramazanov said she had previously not shown an interest in Islam and her actions were totally out of character.
He said: "Before leaving for Turkey, she was not deeply religious.
"On the contrary, she was even depraved. In Moscow, Diana worked in the restaurant at the Kursk station.
"I always scolded her for wearing short skirts."
News site lifenews.ru also quoted a Moscow teacher as saying she "rebuked her for wearing unsuitable clothes at school".
ISIS often use brainwashed children as suicide bombers.
Last month President Tayyip Erdogan blamed the murder of 51 wedding guests on Islamic State and said the killer, who was wearing an explosive belt, was aged between 12 and 14.
The wedding party had been dancing in the street in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep, about 40 miles from the Syrian border, when the bomb exploded in one of the deadliest attacks this year.
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