Female suicide bombers target Moscow tube during rush hour

[Marv]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...be-trains.html

Two female suicide bombers killed at least 37 people and injured 65 by targeting two packed Moscow tube trains during the busy rush hour today.

President Dmitry Medvedev declared Russia would act 'without compromise' to root out terrorists as he ordered airports to be put on alert and security to be stepped up throughout the country.

The two bombs are the worst attack on the Russian capital for six years and no group has yet claimed responsibility.

But suspicion has fallen on Muslim militants from the North Caucasus, where the Kremlin is fighting a growing Islamist insurgency spreading from Chechnya to neighbouring Dagestan and Ingushetia.
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The first explosion tore through the second carriage of a metro train just before 8am as it stood at the Lubyanka station, close to the headquarters of Russia's main domestic security service FSB. It killed at least 23 people.

About 40 minutes later, another blast in the second carriage of a train waiting at the Park Kultury metro station, opposite Gorky Park, killed 12 to 14 more people.
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Surveillance camera footage posted on the internet showed several motionless bodies lying on the floor or slumped against the wall in Lubyanka station lobby and emergency workers crouched over victims, trying to treat them.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov told reporters that female suicide bombers had carried out the attacks.

Prosecutors said they had opened a 'terrorism investigation' after forensic experts found the remains of a female bomber.

[Pete Bondurant]

Fucking Chechens. Stalin would have deported every one of these worthless people to fucking Yakutia.

[Marv]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...k-emerges.html

The first images of the 'Black Widow' suicide bombers in Moscow emerged today amid claims that Russian intelligence may have known about an imminent attack but failed to alert the public.

Macabre pictures show the faces of the dead women who Russian security services claim killed themselves as they detonated bombs during early morning rush hour on the Moscow metro yesterday, murdering 39 people and injuring 72.

The photographs emerged after being issued to Russian police amid a desperate bid to find the gang behind the two Moscow explosions with fears they could be plotting another outrage.

It came amid claims that the authorities had prior intelligence of a threat to the metro yesterday - and were actively stopping and searching women of the appearance of the attackers though no warning to the public was issued.

Officials have not commented on the serious charge made by the Kommersant newspaper.
Links between the bombers and the death of an Islamist rebel earlier this month also began to emerge today.

Although no group immediately claimed responsibility, speculation centred on them being so-called 'black widow' killers avenging the deaths of fathers, brothers and husbands by Russian troops in Chechnya.

Russian media claimed the attack could even be in revenge for the death of a notorious gang leader in Russia's North Caucasus, Alexander Tikhomirov - also known by his Islamic name Said Buryatsky.
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There was also a hint today from a top Kremlin Minister that al-Qaeda could have masterminded or funded the worst terrorist attack on the Russian capital in six years.

One of the women


This grainy image shows the woman police claim was the second bomber



CCTV footage from yesterday shows this man, believed to be an associate of the women. Moscow police are currently searching for him

[Dakota Valkyrie]

She stares into the camera with a look colder than the steel of the gun she grips in her hand.

This is the chilling pose a baby-faced 17-year-old Moscow subway bomber once struck with her terrorist chieftain husband, whose recent death she avenged in a horrific suicide attack last week.

A grim-faced Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, in black Muslim dress, and her husband, Umalat Magomedov, are seen brandishing handguns, a rifle and a hand grenade in a series of pictures appearing in Russian media.

Investigators said Abdurakhmanova, whose first name means "paradise," attacked Moscow's Park Kultury subway station Monday in retaliation for Magomedov's death on New Year's Eve.

Both Abdurakhmanova and the second "black widow" bomber identified by Russian media yesterday were teenagers when they ran away from their homes in the Northern Caucasus region to marry terrorist leaders.

Both men were slain recently in separate shootouts with Russian forces.
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Investigators and acquaintances said Abdurakhmanova was the 16-year-old poetry-loving daughter of a single mother when she contacted Chechen militants on the Internet.

She fled her home a few weeks later to marry Magomedov, 29, who named himself "emir" of anti-Russian fighters in the Dagestan area.

But Magomedov and three other terrorists died on Dec. 31 when Russian forces stopped their car and a wild gunfight erupted.

The other bomber was identified as Markha Ustarhanova, 20. She ran away from home to join Chechen rebels and married warlord Said-Emin Hizrieva, who called himself "emir of Gudermes," a Chechen town.

Hizrieva was killed last October when Russian authorities tried to arrest him on suspicion that he had been plotting to assassinate Chechnya's Kremlin-backed president, Ramzan Kadyrov.

The two women and an unidentified male accomplice still being sought took a day-and-a-half bus ride from Dagestan to Moscow last weekend, Russian media reported.

Investigators believe they were met by two men who lived in a central Moscow apartment.

The men gave the women their bomb belts Monday morning, accompanied them part of the way to the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations and detonated the women's bombs by remote control, the Russian news site gazeta.ru reported.

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[Pete Bondurant]

Islam is a peaceful religion.