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They scare Jihadists.  Chechnya has been at war, a violent VIOLENT war with Russia for years.  In fact, in the first war the Russians, mostly conscripts but heavily armed, went up against the fighters in Grozny.  They were beaten back and demoralized.  They eventually took the city, but only after they shelled it into rubble.  Think Stalingrad.  I remember the Left in America talking about how unfair this was.  But the Russians insisted they had no choice. These people were fighting to the death.  Not like Bin Laden or KSM.  These guys took it to a whole other level.

Like the Belus school massacre.

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The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan school siege or Beslan massacre)^[2][3][4] of early September 2004 lasted three days and involved the capture of over 1,100 people as hostages (including 777 children),^[5] ending with the death of over 380 people. The crisis began when a group of armed Islamic separatist militants, mostly Ingush and Chechen, occupied School Number One (SNO) in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia (an autonomous republic in the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation) on 1 September 2004. The hostage-takers were the Riyadus-Salikhin Battalion, sent by the Chechen separatist warlord Shamil Basayev, who demanded recognition of the independence of Chechnya at the UN and Russian withdrawal from Chechnya. On the third day of the standoff, Russian security forces entered the building with the use of tanks, incendiary rockets and other heavy weapons.^[6] At least 334 hostages were killed as a result of the crisis, including 186 children,^[7][8] with a significant number of people injured and reported missing.

The event led to security and political repercussions in Russia, most notably it contributed to a series of federal government reforms consolidating power in the Kremlin and strengthening of the powers of the President of Russia.^[9] As of 2011, aspects of the crisis in relation to the militants remain contentious; including how many militants were involved, the nature of their preparations and whether a section of the group had escaped. Questions about the Russian government’s management of the crisis have also persisted; including allegations of disinformation and censorship in news media, whether the journalists who were present at Beslan were allowed to freely report on the crisis,^[10] the nature and content of negotiations with the militants, allocation of responsibility for the eventual outcome, and perceptions that excessive force was used.^{[6][11][12][13][14]}

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Like the the Russian theater attack.

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The Moscow theater hostage crisis, also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege, was the seizure of the crowded Dubrovka Theater on 23 October 2002 by some 40 to 50 armed Chechens who claimed allegiance to the Islamist militant separatist movement in Chechnya.^[1] They took 850 hostages and demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya and an end to the Second Chechen War. The siege was officially led by Movsar Barayev. After a two-and-a-half day siege, Russian Spetsnaz forces pumped an unknown chemical agent into the building’s ventilation system and raided it.^[1]

During the raid, all 40 of the attackers were killed by Russian forces, and about 130 hostages died due to adverse reactions to the gas (including nine foreigners).^[2] All but two of the hostages who died during the siege were killed by the toxic substance pumped into the theater to subdue the militants.^[3][4] The use of the gas was widely condemned as heavy-handed, but Moscow insisted it had little room for manoeuvre, as they were faced with the prospect of 50 heavily armed rebels prepared to kill themselves and their hostages.^[5] Physicians in Moscow condemned the refusal to disclose the identity of the gas that prevented them from saving more lives. However, some reports said the drug naloxone was successfully used to save some hostages.^[6]

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Like the “black widow” female suicide bombers.

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The ranks of the Shahidkas are filled mainly with 15- to 19-year-old women. According to journalist Julia Jusik, many of the women have been sold by their parents to be used as shahidkas, others have been kidnapped or tricked.^[5] Another group come from wahhabist families and are pressured to become shahidkas by their family. Many have been prepared to the suicide by way of narcotics and rapes. Several have been pregnant at the time.^[5] However, Robert W. Kurz and Charles K. Bartles refuted this view, stating that in most cases the female Chechen suicide bombers do not fit this model.^[3] Mostly they are given no training at all in preparation for the suicides as no weapon skill is needed to strap on the explosives.^[5] Many do not even blow themselves up, but are blown up by remote control.^[5][6][7] On the other hand, Besayev, as stated above, reported that the women are trained for their mission.^[3] Michael Radu also argued that these women are specifically trained for suicide attacks.^[8] Additionally, black widows can also be those whose brothers or close relatives were killed in one of the two Chechen wars between Russia and Islamist rebels since 1994 or indeed in clashes with Russian-backed forces.^[1] Robert W. Kurz and Charles K. Bartles provide another view in regard to their motives and argued that these women are much more motivated by revenge, despair, and their drive for an independent state than by religious fundamentalism or individual honor.^[3]

Notable attacks

• Khava Barayeva is the first known ‘Black Widow’ who blew herself up at a Russian Army base in Chechnya in June 2000.^[9]

• Medna Bayrokova, a resident of Grozny, said that she remembers the day a middle aged woman came to her front door asking to speak to her 26-year old daughter, Zareta Bayrokova who was a tuberculosis patient. Medna Bayrokova let the woman in. Her daughter then spent an hour in her bedroom with the woman, before leaving the house. Zareta Bayrokova died in the Dubrovka Theater in 2002.^[10]

• In May 2003, Shakhida Baimuratova, a Black Widow suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded 150 in an assassination attempt on then Moscow-appointed Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov at a crowded Muslim festival in Ilishkan Yurt. A second woman bomber was also present but killed only herself.^[3]

• On 5 June 2003, a woman detonated the bomb in a bus carrying Russian Air Force pilots in North Ossetia, killing herself and 20 others and wounding 14.^[3]

• On 5 July 2003, two suicide bombers killed 16 people and injured six others at a rock concert at Tushino Airfield in Moscow.^[11]

• In December 2003, a male and female suicide bomber killed 46 people and injured 100 others by detonating explosives on a packed commuter train, which had just left Yessentuki in Southern Russia. The woman is believed to have carried explosives in a bag, whereas the man had grenades strapped to his leg.

• On 9 December 2003, a bomb exploded outside the National hotel in Moscow just a few hundred metres from the Moscow Kremlin. It is thought that the target was the State Duma building and that the bomb had detonated prematurely. Six people died and 13 were injured in the blast. The suicide bomber was later identified as Khadishat Mangeriyeva.

• On 6 February 2004, Georgi Trofimov, a Russian bomb disposal officer, was killed as he tried to defuse a device at a Moscow cafe. The failed bomber, ethnic Ingush Zarema Muzhakhoyeva, was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment for terrorism in April 2004.^[12] In 2005, she participated in the trial of the Beslan hostage crisis terrorist Nur-Pashi Kulayev as a witness for the prosecution, but she withdrew all her statements about Kulayev that she made in pre-trial depositions and said she didn’t know he was a militant.^[13]

• Two Russian passenger aircraft disasters in 2004 are believed to have been the work of the Black Widows. The smaller of the planes, a TU-134 which crashed near Tula had been carrying a Chechen woman called Amanta Nagayeva who had bought her ticket just an hour before the flight took off. The larger plane exploded near the city of Rostov killing 46 people. Among the wreckage, investigators found traces of hexogen, a powerful explosive. Another Chechen woman, Satsita Djerbikhanova was also a last-minute passenger on this flight.^[3]

• On 1 September 2004, two Chechen women, Roza Nagayeva and Mairam Taburova, were involved in the attack on a Russian, North-Ossetian school (the Beslan school hostage crisis). The attack which killed 334 civilians, including 186 children, was masterminded by Shamil Basayev.

• On 29 March 2010, nearly 40 people were killed and another 100 injured when two suicide bombers detonated explosives at two stations of the Moscow subway, the Park Kultury metro station and at the Lubyanka station.^[14] The attacks were linked to shahidkas by the Russian Government, although an investigation has yet to be undertaken. One of the perpetrators was Dagestani-born Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova (1992-2010), the widow of 30-year-old Umalat Magomedov who was killed by Russian forces on 31 December 2009.^[15][16][14]

• On 24 January 2011, 35 were killed and 180 wounded in Domodedovo, Russia’s busiest airport. Although the identity of those responsible for carrying out the attacks has not been officially confirmed, initial reports suggested that at least one Black Widow was involved, likely accompanied by a man.^[17]

• On 7 March 2012, a widow of a militant killed on 10-11 February 2012 near a village, Karabudakhkent, 40km (24 miles) south of Dagestan capital Makhachkala killed herself and five police officer and wounded two other in Karabudakhkent.^[18]

• On 28 August 2012, Sufi leader Said Afandi and six other people were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Dagestan. The attack was allegedly perpetrated by Russian Aminat Kurbanova who had converted to Islam. Her two former spouses were Islamic militants, and her third husband was a militant, too.^[19]

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These people don’t play and are one of the many reasons why you see the good feds being unable to sleep at night and why they arm up the police.  If these guys decide its time to bring the war to us, it is going to get sporty to say the least.

Their goal is terror and two of them have successfully shut down a major American city.  Just two… Like the Wasp in my earlier post.

It is all about the mindset. Theirs is really bad. And they are never alone.

Update: For example, here is the father’s comments.

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The father of suspected Boston Marathon bomber called on his son today to give up peacefully, but warned the U.S. that if his son is killed “all hell will break loose.”

Anzor Tsarnaev spoke to ABC News from his home in the Russian city of Makhachkala as Boston police carried out an intense dragnet for his son Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, survived a running gun battle with police during the night that left an MIT security officer dead and a Boston cop badly wounded. His older brother died in the shootout.

The father said he spoke to his sons by phone earlier this week. “We talked about the bombing. I was worried about then,” Anzor Tsarnaev said.

He said his sons reassured him, saying, “Everything is good, Daddy. Everything is very good.”

The elder Tsarnaev insisted that his sons were innocent, but said he would appeal to his son to “surrender peacefully.”

“Give up. Give up. You have a bright future ahead of you. Come home to Russia,” the dad said.

The father warned, however, “If they killed him, then all hell would break loose.”

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The Russian police should do us a solid and go visit Mr. Tsarnaev and ask him gently “who else is going to cause trouble?”