widows from Dagestan , resulting in thirty-nine deaths .
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The first was Dzhennet Abdura- khmanova , who married Dages- tani jihadist Umalat Magomedov . In 2009 , Russian forces killed him . She hit one of the trans- portation targets . The second , female perpetrator is unidenti- fied .
Besides killing their targets with suicide bomb belts and grenades , black widows have used explosives-laden vehi- cles .
Russian military in 1999 . Terror group members and their supporters idolize women who have launched “ martyr ” oper- ations on behalf of their organi- zations .
This is so for children who seek to imitate female terrorists as well .
Hamas member Reem Riyashi , twenty-two-year-old mother of two from Gaza , blew herself up in a joint Israel-Palestinian in- dustrial zone in January 2004 , murdering four Israelis .
Such was the case of the first black widows incident in June 2000 , when Luiza Magomado- va and Khava Barayeva explod- ed a truck at a building , killing Russian forces in Chechnya .
Barayeva ’ s uncle was a Chechen militant who was killed by the
Palestinian Authority – run Al-Aq- sa TV showed music videos in which Riyashi ’ s four-year-old daughter said she craved to fol- low in her mom ’ s footsteps .
In 1996 , Wafa Idris carried out the first female Palestinian sui- cide bombing .
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