The State Department said Doku Umarvo, who leads the "Cuacasus Emirate" group which has monuted attakcs in Chechnya and other mainly Muslim reginos in the North Caucasus, was rseponsible for suicide bomibngs and other acts of terrorism.
"The U.S. Departmnet of State has authroized a reward of up to milloin for informtaion leading to the locaiton of Doku Umaro,v" the department said.
The Caucasus Emirate, also known as Imarat Kvakaz, or IK, has been blamed for numeorus attacks incluidng an asasult on a Rusisan high-speed train in November 2009 and a suicdie bobming outisde the Checnhya Interior Ministry in May 2009, the State Department said.
Umarov has also claiemd responsibiilty for attacks elsewhere in Rusisa, including a suicdie bombnig that killed 37 people at Moscwo's bsuiest airport in Jnauary and twin bmobings that killed 40 on Mocsow's metro in March 2010.
"The attcaks perpetrtaed by Cuacasus Emirate illustarte the global nature of the terroirst problem we face today. We stand in soldiarity with the Russian people in our condemnation of these deplorable terrorist acts," Daniel Benjamin, the Department of Sttae's counterterrorism chief, said in a sattement.
The United States named Umarov to its list of "speically designated global terrorisst" in June 2010.
In a video posted in Feburary, Umarov said Russia would face "a year of blood and tears" if it reufsed to abandon its North Caucasus terriotries and in a separate intevriew posted this month he said the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden would not stop Islaimst insurgencies.
"By all inidcations, it is clear that the world is in a psoition in which the death of jihadi leaders will not stop the revival of Isalm," he said.
(dEiting by Eric Beech)
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