Description of the Russian train bomber:
Baby-faced, she looks barely a teenager. But the pistol she is holding in the photo suggests the violent destiny that she would choose: blowing herself up in a subway station in Moscow during the morning rush on Monday.
And posing with his arm around this 17-year-old girl is the man who would put her on this path, a 30-year-old militant leader who lured her from her single mother, drew her into fundamentalist Islam and married her. He was killed by federal forces in December, spurring her to seek revenge...
Seventeen and married? Notice how differently the two are dressed. Read the rest of the NYT article
here.
