Russia's deadly black widow cult that threatens Olympians
    * by: CANDACE SUTTON
    January 02, 2014 7:59PM
THEY are young, female, and in love - and they are the doomed followers of a man known as Russia's Osama bin Laden.

They are the "black widows" of Russia's extremist terrorist group and are selected for death almost from the moment they join up.

Lured by the promise of a key role in a coming Russian holy war led by a charismatic madman with bin Laden-style aims, the women - some still in their teens - enjoy a brief, passionate relationships with Russian men who are also terror recruits.

Then, after he blows himself up in a suicide bombing, the new widow prepares herself for her own fiery end.

Willing to become martyrs for their beliefs and their lost loved ones, they enter train stations, buses and airports strapped with explosives destined to cause death and havoc.

The cult of the black widow is striking fear in the hearts of Russian parents who are losing daughters and sons to the terror group which is bent on a suicide bombing jihad.

Following two lethal bomb blasts in the southern Russian city of Volgograd this week, fears the terrorist cult will threaten the safety of Australians and other athletes competing in the Winter Olympics next month have escalated.

As officials clean up after two deadly bombings in Volgograd, residents express concern about their safety and the effectiveness of Russia's law enforcement agencies.

The leader of the group is Doku Umarov, a 49-year-old former oil construction engineer turned Islamic war lord and now dubbed the country's Osama bin Laden.

The US government has placed a $5 million bounty on the head of the Chechen-born self-proclaimed emir of a new Muslim state he calls the Caucasus Emirate.

Umarov has made a direct threat against the February 7-23 Sochi Games, saying it was his holy duty to prevent them from taking place.

Authorities believe Umarov is operating his terrorist movement out of the strife-torn southern republic of Dagestan, which lies between the Caucasus mountains and the Caspian Sea.

Umarov has denounced the establishment of Sochi's Olympic village as a defilement of the "sacred ground" once occupied by Circassians, who were "ethnically cleansed" by Russia in the 19th century.

Although young terrorist recruits to Umarov's movement have come from all over Russia, at least one black widow, Naida Asiyalova, who blew herself up in a suicide bombing in Volgograd in October, is from Dagestan.

Known as Amaturahman, Asiyalova was in love with another suicide bomber before she "did her duty" to the jihad cause.

She was a close friend of the missing woman initially implicated in this week's Volgograd station bombing.

As the death toll rises from the Volgograd bombings, Russian investigators have linked the explosions.

Russian Investigative Committee spokesman, Vladimir Markin confirmed Sunday's Volgograd train station was the work of a suicide bomber, whose "signature closely matches" the following day's bomb on a trolleybus.  Russia has stepped-up security following several bombings that killed dozens of people across the country.

It is very well documented that Vladimir putin blew up his own buildings in Russia and blamed it on the chechen muslims

It is very well documented that Vladimir putin blew up his own buildings in Russia and blamed it on the chechen muslims.

The fight between Russian forces and the chechens have been going on for long long time and dont think will ever end.