Terrorism in Russia (merged thread)

[gh_uk]

Anne Speckhard (US Academic) has written fairly extensively on this. Probably the best articles of hers on the subject are:

Speckhard, A, and K Ahkmedova. "The Making of a Martyr: Chechen Suicide Terrorism." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 29, no. 5 (2006): 429-92, available @: http://www.annespeckhard.com/publica...ing_Martyr.pdf

and

Speckhard, A, and K Akhmedova. "Black Widows: The Chechen Female Suicide Terrorists." Female Suicide Terrorists (2005).
available @:
http://www.uwed.uz/library/files/black_widows.pdf

There's also a reasonably good book by Rosemarie Skaine called, orignally enough, 'Female Suicide Bombers'.

[kaur]

Russian newspaper "Kommersant" says that approximately 20 female bombers are on the run.

At present time their search is going on in Ingushetia.

http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1345549

[Tukhachevskii]

In an article written by Anne Speckhard she makes the following observation which, IMO, is usually ingnored when suicide bombing is discussed (usually in favour of the usual suspects like economic disenfranchisement, poverty, ignorance, self-destructive thanatos drives, et al)...

Sucide terrorism is a tactic that is...In endless supply if the terror group's constituent population supports the use of this tactic.(p.5)

Link is broken for some reason; the article can be "googled" as Genesis of Suicide Terrorism in the Encyclopedia of Stress.

[davidbfpo]

In the wake of coordinated suicide attacks on the Moscow subway system on March 29, 2010, START has compiled background information on terrorist activity related to this attack....(at the end) These data were collected and compiled from the Global Terrorism Database (www.start.umd.edu/gtd).
The GTD contains information on more than 80,000 terrorist incidents that have occurred around the world since 1970.

Link:http://www.start.umd.edu/start/annou...w%20subway.pdf