Russian Suicide Bomb Ring Foiled

[Richard]

And so it goes...

Richard

Russian Suicide Bomb Ring Foiled
NYT, 12 July 2010

Russian security services have broken up what they described as a terrorist cell in a Muslim region of the country that was preparing female suicide bombers for attacks on major Russian cities, officials announced on Monday.

They said six women had been arrested who had already written “farewell letters” as they were being prepared for deployment. But the officials did not disclose whether attacks were imminent, or any other details about planning.

Two men were also arrested, including one said to have played a role in attacks by two female suicide bombers on two subway stations in Moscow in March, which killed 40 people.

On Monday night, state-controlled television broadcast footage of the female suicide bombers detained by security forces. The National Antiterrorism Committee, a federal body, said the six women ranged in age from 15 to 29 years, adding that four of them were widows whose husbands had died in security operations.

The committee said suicide belts and weapons were confiscated.

The women were detained by the security services in the volatile southern region of Dagestan, near Chechnya. Officials have said the two female suicide bombers who carried out the March attacks in Moscow were from Dagestan.

Officials indicated on Monday that they believed that the arrests of the six women prevented another attack by so-called Black Widows — young Muslim women from the Caucasus region who are turned into human bombs in Russian cities.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/wo..._r=1&ref=world

[Saoirse]

Originally Posted by Richard

And so it goes...

Richard

Russian Suicide Bomb Ring Foiled
NYT, 12 July 2010

Russian security services have broken up what they described as a terrorist cell in a Muslim region of the country that was preparing female suicide bombers for attacks on major Russian cities, officials announced on Monday.

They said six women had been arrested who had already written “farewell letters” as they were being prepared for deployment. But the officials did not disclose whether attacks were imminent, or any other details about planning.

Two men were also arrested, including one said to have played a role in attacks by two female suicide bombers on two subway stations in Moscow in March, which killed 40 people.

On Monday night, state-controlled television broadcast footage of the female suicide bombers detained by security forces. The National Antiterrorism Committee, a federal body, said the six women ranged in age from 15 to 29 years, adding that four of them were widows whose husbands had died in security operations.

The committee said suicide belts and weapons were confiscated.

The women were detained by the security services in the volatile southern region of Dagestan, near Chechnya. Officials have said the two female suicide bombers who carried out the March attacks in Moscow were from Dagestan.

Officials indicated on Monday that they believed that the arrests of the six women prevented another attack by so-called Black Widows — young Muslim women from the Caucasus region who are turned into human bombs in Russian cities.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/wo..._r=1&ref=world

So, now their menfolk are turning women out to do their dirty work? What happened? Did they get chicken all of a sudden?
It's amazing how in their "ideology" women and children are "innocents" and yet, here they are using women to kill other innocents...oops sorry ..infidels. How all the dhimmis in the world cannot see how evil these people are, amazes me.

[lindy]

Originally Posted by Saoirse

So, now their menfolk are turning women out to do their dirty work? What happened? Did they get chicken all of a sudden?
It's amazing how in their "ideology" women and children are "innocents" and yet, here they are using women to kill other innocents...oops sorry ..infidels. How all the dhimmis in the world cannot see how evil these people are, amazes me.

No, they're not chicken...they've been killed by the Russians. There are very few Chechen MAMs still in the Caucasus. I find it interesting that this story is pretty much consistently "below the fold" on several of the Russian news sites.

I assume the evil you're speaking of isn't the Russian indiscriminate killing of the Chechens, Ingush, and Cirkassians (or anyone else from the Northern Caucasus) who gets in their way?

In the NYT article, those women sure didn't look Chechen. This was from RL/RFE:

Russia's National Counterterrorism Committee (NAK) reported on July 12 the arrest in Makhachkala of six women it identified as potential suicide bombers, and two men believed to be their handlers. The Russian daily "Kommersant," however, today quoted a Daghestan human rights activist as questioning whether the women indeed intended to commit acts of terrorism.

According to the NAK, the eight were arrested at a private apartment. But "Kommersant" quoted an unidentified Daghestan Interior Ministry source as saying the arrests were at two separate locations.

Four of the six women, all of whom are aged between 15 and 29, were said to be the widows of Islamic militant fighters, and two of them reportedly had previous convictions for illegal possession of weapons. They have been named as Patimat Nurmagomedov, Zalina and Zaira Akayeva, and Sakinat Saidova. Saidova figured on a list of potential suicide bombers whose names and photographs "Komsomolskaya pravda" published in early April.

At the time of the arrests, police confiscated two pistols, Islamic literature, and a list of license plate of police cars. Militant fighting units in Daghestan target police on a regular basis.

The NAK claimed that some of the women had written suicide notes to their families exhorting other women to follow their example. But Gyulnara Rustamova of the Daghestan human rights group Pravozashchita (Rights Defense) told "Kommersant" that although she had not seen the letters in question, she suspected they were simply the testaments that all practicing Muslims are required to carry with them in the event of their untimely death.

The NAK claims that one of the two men detained was the person who escorted from Makhachkala to Moscow the two women suicide bombers who blew themselves up in the Moscow subway on March 29, killing 40 people. But in late April, Daghestan's Interior Ministry announced that one of two men killed in a shoot-out on April 26 in Khasavyurt Raion had been identified as Akhmad Rabadanov, seen on surveillance cameras in the company of the two suicide bombers on the morning of March 29.

The father of one of the two Moscow suicide bombers subsequently said he couldn't understand how his daughter could have been with him in Makhachkala until after midday on March 28 and then reached Moscow by the early morning of the following day.