One of the bombs was at Lubyanka Station underneath Lubyanka Square which is currently home to FSB’s HQ, and was previously the HQ for the KGB.
One of the bombs was at Lubyanka Station underneath Lubyanka Square which is currently home to FSB’s HQ, and was previously the HQ for the KGB.
This slate piece (http://www.slate.com/id/2249122/) made me remember a more serious article about female members of jihadi terrorist cells, written by someone in Europe, cannot recall the title. It was about how they are trying to assert their "agency" and can become much more than the usual image of the submissive Muslim woman by joining these cells....does anyone know what article I am talking about?
Shamil Basayev keeps paying dividends for the Caucasus Emirate.
Vae Victus
Try following this link (which has appeared before on a thread n Suicide Bombing IIRC): http://www.iiss.org/conferences/coun...ope/?locale=en
Sounds like the work you seek is Dr Anne Speckhard of the Free University, Brussels; IIRC has her own website. Good luck.
davidbfpo
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'.
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
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)...
Link is broken for some reason; the article can be "googled" as Genesis of Suicide Terrorism in the Encyclopedia of Stress.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)
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Link:http://www.start.umd.edu/start/annou...w%20subway.pdfIn 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.
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