Horrific Moscow Bombing.

[Pure]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8592190.stm
Moscow Metro hit by deadly suicide bombings

Commuter Alan Broach: "There was a lot of fear and concern around"

At least 38 people were killed and more than 60 injured in two suicide bomb attacks on the Moscow Metro during the morning rush hour, officials say.

Female suicide bombers are believed to have carried out the attacks on trains that had stopped at two stations in the heart of the Russian capital.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for being behind the attacks.
But Russian security services believe the bombers are linked to militant groups in the North Caucasus region.

Past suicide bombings in the capital have been carried out by or blamed on Islamist rebels fighting for independence from Russia in Chechnya.

 

[rgraham666]

My clock radio woke me up this morning and I heard that "Bombs had been set off in subways." My first thought was, "That took less time than I expected. The tea baggers didn't waste any time."

Then I heard, "in Moscow." Which surprised me as I expected the report to have come from Washington or New York for reasons explained above..

 

[3113]

My clock radio woke me up this morning and I heard that "Bombs had been set off in subways." My first thought was, "That took less time than I expected. The tea baggers didn't waste any time."

Nah. Teabaggers aren't going to suicide. Too narcissistic for that. Molotov cocktails, slashed tires, and beating people up will come next.

 

[rgraham666]

Didn't hear the suicide bomber part until a few seconds after I woke up. For a certain value of awake, that is.

 

[Pure]

I say this is a crappy analysis, New York Times.

Female suicide bombers restore their feared status in Russia

Chechen women cry near the ruins of their houses, destroyed by Russian air strikes in October, 1999. Agence France-Presse
Often motivated by rape or the loss of a loved one, ‘Black Widows’ have spread terror for years

Andrew Kramer
Moscow — The New York Times News Service
Published on Monday, Mar. 29, 2010 10:27PM EDT
Last updated on Monday, Mar. 29, 2010 11:44PM EDT

The two powerful explosions that tore through Moscow’s subway revived a peculiar fear in the Russian capital, one that goes beyond the usual terrorism worries of a metropolis: the female bomber.
The Russian authorities said the bombings had been carried out by two women, and that they were searching for two suspected female accomplices, the Russian news media reported. Few details of the bombers were released.

Earlier this decade, Moscow’s fear of female suicide bombers was so strong it became a lurid obsession. Women, sometimes casually adorned in jeans and blending in to the swirl of Moscow, committed at least 16 bombings, including two on planes.

The attacks happened early – as when a widow killed herself and the Russian commander who had killed her husband in one of the first such attacks in the Chechen war – and sometimes in the most unlikely places, such as mingling in line at a music festival, which only increased the horror. Women joined in some of the most infamous terrorist attacks in recent Russian history, at a theatre in Moscow and a school in Beslan.

The women, who came to be called the “Black Widows,” were not the first women to die this way. That dubious honour goes to a 16-year-old Palestinian girl, who drove a truck into an Israeli army convoy in 1985. The Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, was killed in 1991 by a member of the Birds of Paradise, a female group associated with the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka.

Suicide bombing was a tactic that came late to Chechnya and was nearly unknown during the first war from 1994 to 1996. But once it arrived, in 2000, in an attack that killed 27 Russian special forces soldiers, it quickly became associated with women.
The tactic expanded in subsequent years. Females adorned in billowy black robes and strapped with explosives made up 19 of the 41 captors in the October, 2002, hostage taking in the Moscow theatre, which ended when Russian special forces released a sleep-inducing gas into the building.

When soldiers entered the auditorium they reportedly walked among the slumped forms and as a first precaution shot dead the black widows where they lay, lest they wake up and explode.
In 2004, female suicide bombers detonated bombs on internal flights; one bomber identified by the Russian authorities was divorced and in her early forties, the other two were sisters in their twenties who had also divorced.

While there is no single reason women decide to give up their lives, experts say they have usually suffered a traumatic event that makes them burn with revenge or question whether they want to live. This can be the death of a child, husband or other family member at the hands of Russian forces or a rape. Russian authorities have said the women are sometimes drugged.

In 2003, Russian police captured a 22-year-old Chechen woman, Zarema Muzhakhoyeva, after she left a handbag bomb in a Moscow café. She was not a religious fanatic, her lawyer, Natalya Yevlapova, said in a telephone interview, but she had become emotionally distressed after her husband was killed in what appeared to be a business dispute. “These girls are just pushed into a corner,” Ms. Yevlapova said.

 

[Pure]

to explain,

why i said the analysis was crap.

above article excerpt:While there is no single reason women decide to give up their lives, experts say they have usually suffered a traumatic event that makes them burn with revenge or question whether they want to live. This can be the death of a child, husband or other family member at the hands of Russian forces or a rape. Russian authorities have said the women are sometimes drugged.

the women are said to be irrational *since they're bombing Russians who killed their husbands and family members*. or raped them. How Odd.! MUST be crazy.

there have been a number of studies of suicide bombers, and when all the hype is pierced, they are just ordinary folks, like those who become soldiers. you don't have to be 'crazy' or pathologically traumatized to become a suicide bomber. and there is never a lack of volunteers (without druggings!).

here's the profile of one 9-11 leader, Mr. Jarrah. and read the others' profiles:

http://www.defendingthetruth.com/militaries-war/8254-who-really-were-9-11-bombers.html

Ziad Samir Jarrah, pilot and group leader
Age: 26.

Nationality: Lebanese.
Jarrah was the leader of the only hijacking group with four members, a factor that may have enabled a group of passengers to overpower them. Raised in a middle-class family, Jarrah left Lebanon in 1996. In Germany, he partied and seemed to enjoy Western culture. In 1999, after meeting Atta, he got his pilot’s license in Hamburg and dropped out of school. He turned up several months later in Venice, Fla., to take flying lessons. In 2001, he moved to Hollywood and began martial arts classes. On Sept. 9, he checked out of a Deerfield Beach motel with Atta, al-Shehhi and others.


it's an old propaganda technique, in a war, to stress weird and twisted psychology of enemy personnel and the wackiness of their leaders. one's own forces are not 'psychologized'; in the account above, for example, the fact that a Russian soldier might have lost a loved one to the terrorists is not mentioned.

 

[LaRocha]

The Kurds learned in the last ten years how to stop ethnic cleansing. Stop retaliating, and accept that you can't out bomb a regional or global superpower. The Russians have the same institutional reaction to violence as the Americans and Israelis. Go to where they are, bomb them from the sky, roll your armor in, do what you want.

 

[Pure]

background of subway bomber

Mansur Mirovalev

Moscow — The Associated Press
Published on Friday, Apr. 02, 2010 11:22AM EDT

Last updated on Friday, Apr. 02, 2010 6:06PM EDT


.A 17-year-old from Dagestan was one of two female suicide bombers who attacked Moscow's subway, Russian investigators said Friday. A leading newspaper called her the widow of a slain Islamist rebel.

President Dmitry Medvedev also urged harsher measures Friday to crack down on terrorism and the death toll from Monday's subway bombings rose to 40 as a man died in the hospital. At least 90 others were injured in the twin subway attacks.


Federal investigators identified one of the attackers as Dzhanet Abdurakhmanova, 17, of Dagestan and said they were still trying to identify the second bomber and track down the organizers of the attack.

Dagestan, one of the predominantly Muslim provinces in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, was the site of two suicide bombings on Wednesday that killed 12 people, mostly police officers. Another explosion there Thursday killed two suspected militants.

The Kommersant newspaper published what it said was a picture of Abdurakhmanova, also known as Abdullayeva, dressed in a black Muslim headscarf and holding a pistol. A man with his arm around her, also holding a gun, is identified as Umalat Magomedov, whom the paper described as an Islamist militant leader killed by government forces in December.