INVESTIGATORS RELEASE PICTURES OF THE FEMALE TERRORISTS
These are the faces of the two female suicide bombers who claimed the lives of 39 people in the Moscow Metro terror attacks.
Their peaceful faces almost make them look as if they are sleeping – but these women had a deadly destiny.
They blew themselves up using explosives belts during the Monday morning rush hour at two different stations on the Russian capital’s underground train network.
As well as the deaths, more than 60 people were injured – some seriously.
The photos were taken at the scene of the carnage, Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations, and released by investigators, according to Russian website lifenews.ru.
Their faces were left intact while their bodies were ripped apart by the bombs – which contained screws and small shards of metal to increase their deadliness.
At Lubyanka station, the force of the blast took the terrorist’s head right off.
Russia’s interior state security agency the FSB has already revealed that it has identified the female perpetrators.
But who are these women who don’t hesitate to take dozens of innocent lives?
They are known as the ‘Black Widows’ and are part of the radical Islamist movement in the North Caucasus fighting for independence from Moscow.
The women who are in the service of the Islamists believe that they have nothing to lose – apart from their lives. They have already lost their husbands and sons in the years of conflict with Russia.
Their despair turns into a thirst for revenge.
They have left a bloody trail across Russia since they took 850 performers and audience members hostage at a Moscow theatre in October 2002.
More attacks followed – by plane in August 2004 which left 90 dead, the Beslan school siege horror which killed 331 and further bloodshed in Chechnya, North Ossetia and again in Moscow.
Notorious Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev boasted that he had built up a whole “battalion” of them.
They were ready to strike outside of their homeland.
The movement does not seem to lack a new generation – although they may not all be willing to voluntarily embrace death. Some may have been taken from their families and forced to do it, or been given drugs to have the same effect.
These women are merely disposable tools for to senior terrorists who pull the strings. And even if some of them fail to set off their suicide belt, the explosives can always be set off remotely…
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