Terror Attack Catalogue

Date: March 31st 2010
Method: Twin Suicide Bombing
Location:

• 8:40AM Bomber 1 Kizlyar, Dagestan
• 9:00AM Bomber 2 Kizlyar, Dagestan

Death Toll: 12
Injury Toll: 23
Perpetrators: Names undisclosed. Suspected Chechen Militia.

CNN reports both explosions happened 300 meters from the Interior Ministry
and Federal Security Service buildings.
The Montreal Gazzette reports:

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the latest attack in the North Caucasus region may be linked to the strikes on the Moscow metro by two female suicide bombers.

Date: March 29th, 2010
Method: Twin Subway Suicide Bombings
Location:

• 8:00AM at Lubyanka Station
• 8:40AM at Park Kultury-Koltsevaya

Death Toll: 40
Injury Toll: 121
Perpetrators:

• Doku K. Umarov claimed responsibility for the attacks over Youtube. The New York Times translates his message here. Umarov claims the subway bombings act as retaliation for the death of four civilians who were killed by Russian security forces, while picking wild garlic on Feb 11, 2010 around the village of Arshty.
  
• Maryam Sharipova, 28 year-old IT teacher from Dagestan. Suicide bomber who carried out attack at the Lubyanka Station.
  
• Dzhanet Adbullayeva, 17 year old widow from Dagestan. Suicide bomber who carried out attack at the Park Kultury-Koltsevaya Station.

In Russia, and the North Caucasus, women who become suicide bombers have been dubbed as Black Widows. The tendency appears to be that women from that region who pursue suicide bombing do it to avenge relatives and husbands that have been killed by Russian Security Forces. The New York Times as well as Time elaborate on this phenomenon.