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| At least one of the Chechens meets boomer babe profile |
| 2004-08-29 |
| One of the prime suspects in last week's probable suicide bombing of two Russian airliners, a 27-year-old Chechen woman, was yesterday revealed to have had a compelling motive for her alleged actions: The Russian daily Izvestia said her profile fitted that of the archetypal Chechen female suicide bomber Black Widows, as they are often known. "As experience shows, practically all the female suicide bombers who have blown themselves up in Moscow or the Caucasus were the wives of [rebel] fighters killed in battles with federal forces or had lost close relatives involved in the hostilities," the paper wrote. "Nagaeva had an obvious motive to become a suicide bomber; by blowing herself and the plane up she was avenging her brother." Nagaeva was on a TU-134 bound for Volgograd which broke up in mid-air 120 miles south of Moscow, while the other prime suspect, a Chechen woman known only as S Dzhebirkhanova, was on a TU-154 heading for the Black Sea resort of Sochi which dropped out of the air within minutes of the other plane. Eighty-nine people died in the two explosions. Investigators' suspicions were aroused when nobody came to identify the two women's bodies, and their fears that the catastrophe was man-made were confirmed when the FSB security service uncovered traces of a high explosive traditionally favoured by Chechen rebels in the wreckage of one of the planes. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 this airport is their most secure....they're in trouble |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-29 7:33:56 AM |