The Wolves of Islam: Russia and the Faces of Chechen Terror - Hardcover

Murphy, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574888307 ISBN 13: 9781574888300

Publisher: Brassey's US, 2004

Synopsis

At a little past 10:00 p.m., on October 23, 2002, nineteen young women and twenty-two men bounded from minivans and sprinted through the front doors of the sprawling Dubrovka Theater Center located just blocks from the Kremlin in the heart of Moscow. Once inside, the troop hurriedly changed into their costumes and, following a well-rehearsed script, took their designated places for the evening's dramatic finale. These people were not, however, actresses and actors starring in the hit musical Nord Ost, which was entertaining a sellout crowd of 711 spectators in the concert hall. They were Chechen Islamic terrorists and their Arab accomplices - suicide hostage-takers who had come to Moscow to die and take their audience prey with them, unless the Russians immediately withdrew from Chechnya. The Dubrovka theater siege ushered in a new hostile escalation in the fanatical Islamist Chechens' ten-year fight against the Russian state. The "wolves of Islam" have adopted terror with maximum civilian casualties as its strategic weapon of choice, are employing the Palestinian model of suicide terror against civilians, and are plotting with al Qaeda to conduct international terrorist operations

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About the Author

Paul Murphy, Ph.D., is a former U.S. government senior counterterrorism official who lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Russia, the North Caucasus, and Central Asia between 1994 and 2001. He has studied in the former Soviet Union, served as an NGO adviser to the Moscow City Duma, and worked in civil society development, higher education, and business in Russia. As a U.S. congressional special adviser on Russia in 2002, he dealt with issues related to counterterrorism cooperation between the United States and Russia. This book is his fifth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brassey's US
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1574888307
• ISBN 13: 9781574888300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288