Terrorist Attacks In Russia

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Currently, the police and government have a broad variety of who the terrorist attacks could be coming from. The top suspect right now is a so called “black widow” named Ruzanna Ibragimova. She is twenty two years old and a widow to a former terrorist who died in a previous attack. The group of “black widows” she is claimed to be part of are all widows of former terrorists. They are trained to follow their husband’s footsteps and get revenge for their death by military forces, rather than suicide. This tactic was also encouraged through an Internet video last June by a Chechen rebel leader named Doku Umarov. He posted a video of himself encouraging Islamist militants to destroy the olympics, which he called “satanic dances on the bones of our ancestors”. Mark Galeotti, a professor at New York University, states that Doku Umarov is a big influence towards terrorists, but has limited power. He’s more of a symbolic person, rather than someone who controls everything that happens. Apparently, Doku Umarov personally commanded Abu-Umar al-Shishani to control the terrorist attacks in Russia.

The other suspects in the matter are an insurgent group in Dagestan who posted an online video with two men in explosive vests. The two said that if Russian President, Vladimir Putin, didn’t cancel the winter olympics, they were preparing a “present” for him and the Olympic visitors. In the video, they also claim that the two men were responsible for organizing a pair of suicide bombings that killed thirty four people last month in the southern Russian city of Volgograd. Volgograd is only a little more than four hundred miles away from Sochi, where the olympics are being held this year. Some believe that the attacks in Volgograd were just dist...

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