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| Boom Bitch Lost Will to Die | ||
| 2004-02-04 | ||
| A Chechen suicide bomber who was arrested after failing to detonate an explosive in a Moscow cafe last summer said in an interview published Tuesday that she had lost her will to die and purposely tried to attract attention to herself. Zarema Muzhakhoyeva, 23, was detained in July after her strange behavior attracted the attention of security guards at Mon Cafe, a restaurant just off a main avenue leading to the Kremlin. A bomb disposal expert was killed trying to defuse the explosive that she had carried in a bag and left on the sidewalk. He’s still dead, too, last I heard. Muzhakhoyeva faces charges of terrorism, conspiracy to murder two or more people, and illegal possession and transfer of weapons. If convicted, she could spend 25 years in prison. Muzhakhoyeva told Izvestia that she hopes for acquittal under a law lifting criminal responsibility from people who warn of a terrorist act or its preparation. She described doing her best to attract attention to herself without provoking punishment from the controllers she was sure were following her - and who, she was convinced, could detonate her bomb by remote control. "Briefly, I decided to surrender with the bomb and hide from everyone in prison - even though they could get me in prison, too," Muzhakhoyeva was quoted as saying. I bet they will, five years or 25. The Federal Security Service maintains that many of the female bombers are drugged or otherwise forced into their work. But Chechens and human rights advocates argue that the bombers are women whose husbands, fathers and children have been killed and feel they have nothing more to lose.
Life sucks for everyone in Chechyna. My thanks to Mom and Dad for being Americans. Muzhakhoyeva said she then turned to terrorism, having heard that suicide bombers’ families were rewarded $1,000.
But she kept going. In spite of her failure, Muzhakhoyeva’s handlers sent her to Moscow. On the day the cafe attack was planned, the two men drove her to the square in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral, at the end of Red Square, and instructed her to flag down a car to get to the cafe. She stared at the driver in the rearview mirror and muttered verses from the Quran, hoping he would turn her in to the police. But he dropped her off at her destination and sped away. "GAZ don’t fail me now!" Muzhakhoyeva walked up to the plate glass front of the cafe and stuck out her tongue at men inside, then smirked. A trio of men came out, asked for her passport and asked what was in her bag. "An explosive," she said. Within minutes, she was in police custody. What a waste. Enjoy prison until your handlers find you. | ||
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 i agree with dar but go farther - remember the Golda Meier quote, "we will have peace when they love their children more than they hate us" ? She may still want to kill, but if she wants to live more than she wants to kill, thats the first step out of the insanity. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2004-2-4 9:49:12 AM |
| #5 Good: She was afraid to die and didn't proceed with the attack. Innocent lives were saved and she might deliver some worthy intel. Bad: She turned herself because she was afraid of killing only herself, not because she felt any sympathy for the innocents she was about to kill or maim. I guess if there's no honor among thieves, there's equally no humanity among terrorists. |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-2-4 9:35:42 AM |
| #4 Maybe a little prozac or a trip to the local psycologist would assistance him in attaining his normal seethe levels. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-2-4 9:17:54 AM |
| #3 Losing the will to die Or what happens when a jihadi gets depressed? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-4 7:33:38 AM |
| #2 Widowed after her much older husband was shot in a business dispute, Chechen business law. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-2-4 7:25:32 AM |
| #1 I've dated women like this. The ones with kids. Dads had enough. Not that I approve, but man, ya know! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-2-4 12:45:39 AM |