[OBSCURA] "Bonnie and Clyde '10"
Apr. 5th, 2010 06:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldBAGnewsNOTES' commentary says the obvious about this striking photo.
"If what is evident in this photo of the 17-year-old Russian suicide bomber and her 30-year-old husband, who was killed last December, is how this young Russian women become brainwashed and victimized by the older male militant, the NYT pegs the most obvious reason this picture is buzzing around Europe and Eurasia right now. Borrowing liberally from Hollywood, it's a Russian jihadist version of Bonnie and Clyde."
The New York Times article, Levy and Barry's "Russia Says Suicide Bomber Was Militant’s Widow", suggests that the 17 year old, born to a single mother who worked in a local Dagestan market, met her husband online and fell in love with the idea of jihad.
Like the original Bonnie and Clyde, did these two do what they did because they lived in blocked societies?
"If what is evident in this photo of the 17-year-old Russian suicide bomber and her 30-year-old husband, who was killed last December, is how this young Russian women become brainwashed and victimized by the older male militant, the NYT pegs the most obvious reason this picture is buzzing around Europe and Eurasia right now. Borrowing liberally from Hollywood, it's a Russian jihadist version of Bonnie and Clyde."
The New York Times article, Levy and Barry's "Russia Says Suicide Bomber Was Militant’s Widow", suggests that the 17 year old, born to a single mother who worked in a local Dagestan market, met her husband online and fell in love with the idea of jihad.
Like the original Bonnie and Clyde, did these two do what they did because they lived in blocked societies?
