Moscows Restaurant Rochester

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Admin
Moscows Restaurant Rochester

Moscows Restaurant Rochester

The women who blew themselves up on Moscow’s subway system on March 29, 2010 probably came from a group known in Russia as the “Black Widows.” According to Tony Halpin writing for The Times (March 30, 2010) from Moscow, “Russia’s security services believe that the women…were part of a group of up to 30 suicide bombers trained by a Chechen terrorist leader.”

These female suicide bombers have gathered a fearsome reputation over the years.

Andrew Kramer in The New York Times (March 30, 2010) reports that 19 of the 41 people who attacked a Moscow theatre in October 2002 were “Black Widows.” Security forces released a gas into the theatre that induced sleep. Kramer writes that “When soldiers entered the auditorium they reportedly walked among the slumped forms and shot dead the black widows where they lay, lest they wake up and explode.”

Suicide Bombing mostly a Male Occupation

The now familiar carnage caused by suicide bombers, whether they fly planes into buildings or blow themselves up in restaurants and bars, is usually associated with male Muslim extremists. However, women have been involved in the terror tactic for at least 25 years.

In her 2004 book Female Suicide Bombers, Debra D. Zedalis writes that the first woman to launch a suicidal attack was 16-year-old Khyadali Sana. In 1985 she drove an explosives-laden truck into an Israeli Army convoy in Lebanon.

Women were also prominent in Tamil Tiger suicide attacks in Sri Lanka. In 1991, a Tamil Tiger woman wearing a vest filled with explosives blew herself up in front of Rajiv Gandhi, killing the Indian prime minister.