Terror Attack Catalogue

Date: May 26th, 2010
Method: Bomb (200-250 grammes of TNT)
Location: Stavropol, Russia
Death Toll: 5-6
Injury Toll: 20-40
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (accused Islamic Insurgents)

Earth Times reports:

The explosive device detonated under a canopy at the Culture and Sport Palace in the North Caucasus city, as people were making their way to a concert by a musical ensemble from conflict-torn Chechnya.The victims were spectators, officials were quoted as saying.

Reuters explains:

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last year ordered that Stavropol Region be included in a new North Caucasus Federal District along with mainly-Muslim Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia in a bid to tackle growing violence.

Medvedev's new envoy to the district, former metals executive Alexander Khloponin, on Wednesday called an emergency meeting to discuss the bombing, RIA reported.

Stavropol city is 350 km (220 miles) northwest of Chechnya's local capital Grozny. It has largely escaped Islamist insurgent attacks, but the surrounding region has seen some of the deadliest attacks in the long-running conflict.

Chechen rebels seized hundreds of hostages in a hospital in the Stavropol Region town of Budyonnovsk in 1995 and more than 100 died during the rebel assault and a botched Russian raid.

In the last major attack, seven Russian policemen and 12 gunmen were killed when special forces stormed houses to fight rebels holed up in a village near the city in 2006.

Date: April 24th, 2010
Method: IED
Location: Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Death Toll: N/A
Injury Toll: N/A
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

Kaleej Times reports:

A policeman on patrol found the homemade bomb in a suspicious-looking box early Saturday morning near the entrance to one of the city's police stations, the Interfax news agency reported, citing a police source.
The bomb was “a homemade explosive device consisting of a five-litre plastic canister, inside of which was a 1.5-litre bottle with an ammonia mix and aluminium powder... nails, an electric detonator, a power supply, a mobile phone and wires,” a police source told the RIA-Novosti news agency.
Police successfully defused the bomb, both news agencies reported.

Date: April 4th, 2010
Method: Bombing (Compared to 5 kilograms of TNT)
Location: Izberbash, Dagestan
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Suspected Chechen Militia


Kuwait Times:

A blast equivalent to five kilograms of TNT exploded early yesterday near the town of Izberbash, derailing the locomotive and eight cars, transport police spokesman Akhmed Magomayev said. Another, less powerful blast aimed at killing rescuers detonated nearby shortly after the first explosion, he said

Date: April 1st, 2010
Method: IED Self Detonation in Car
Location: Khasavyurt District, Dagestan
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Three Chechen Militia

DNA India reports two suspected militants were killed and one seriously injured. The Caucasus Republic's interior ministry is quoted saying, "According to preliminary information the IED they were carrying in the car self detonated "

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.