Russia's Black Widow Problem

http://theweek.com/article/index/201397/How_bad_is_Russias_terrorist_problem and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/7538556/Moscow-metro-19-black-widows-could-launch-fresh-attacks.html

By black widow's I'm not speaking of the creatures with eight legs. I instead am referring to the supposed 30 women who were recruited from Chechnya and Ingushetia to become human bombs. They are known as "black widows" because most have lost someone to clashes with Russia. These women were trained and then returned to Russia to continue training with Islamist convert Said Buryatsky (actual name Alexander Tikhomirov). On Monday, March 29th, it is thought that two of these black widows did a suicide bombing attack on Moscow's metro. The attack killed 39 commuters. It is said that this attack may have been initialized as revenge for the killing of Buryatsky, also known as "the Russian Bin Laden." It's been six years since the last Moscow metro bombing so there's no guarantee that this will be the beginning of a new string of terrorist attacks. However, this single attack has brought up the question of how bad Russia's terrorist problem actually is. Nine of the original thirty black widows have already conducted their bombings. If these two bombers were also black widows it leaves nineteen others still at large. Many complained that not enough was done to prevent this from occurring. What sort of measures will President Dmitry Medvedev and prime minister Vladimir Putin do to get stop this pesky black widow problem?

By: Jenae Harner