Moscow Suicide Bombing: 5 Books On Russia's Escalating Islamic Separatist Problem

Chechen rebels have taken credit for the Moscow bombing. The history of Russia's violent conflicts with Georgia is a long one. A number of books have been written over the years about how entrenched the conflict is, which erupted to the world's attention when the Soviet Union collapsed.

The Moscow government has sought to suppress the separatist rebellion, but rebels warned that "the war is coming to their cities."

Given the long history, is this just the beginning of a new round of escalating violence or will this be the next long conflict like Northern Ireland or the MIddle East? Let us know what the perspective of these books tells you.

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"Russia's Chechen Wars 1994-2000: Lessons from the Urban Combat," Olga Oliker

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The down and dirty from RAND on the urban warfare during the early days of open conflict. If it's now coming to Moscow, the Russians may need to re-read this one.

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[Oleg1]

11:06 AM on 03/30/2010

but rebels warned that "the war is coming to their cities."

Here's a headsdup to Chechen militants -- Jihad goes BOTH ways You're not dealing with Americans here. Russian Jihad is coming to the villege near you. Bet on it.

[Steamboater]

04:41 AM on 03/30/2010

These bombings were terrible but the Chechens took responsibilty for them yet they never did for those apartment bombings that gave russia the excuse to invade and decimate Chechnya. That poses a dlilemma for anyone who condemns these terrorist bombings now as well as that incident when Chechen terrorists were put to perpetual sleep in that russian movie theater by russian security forces several years back when it was clear Chechens were bent on murder. Much of what happened during those russian apartment building bombings was covered up by Putin and there's been evidence that Putin and russian security was behind those bombings so as to get russians to support a war by making them feel at risk in their own beds in the middle of the night. Russia has always been so infused with byzantine intrigue that anything is possible there. Still, the present must be dealt with and the present now includes Chechens who have become like those russians lording it over the press in russia, destroying a free press with one journalist after another murdered. I'm not saying that what happend in russia is excusable at all, It should be roundly condemned yet so should russia's very possible initiation of brutality and terror in Chechnya. The most tragic aspect is that there isn't anyone who offers mediation and that the russian government doesn't want to hear it if it was there. This is just going to get worse with more terror to come.

[hawkseye]

06:50 PM on 03/29/2010

Fundamentalists of every kind, everywhere, will be a problem for the next 100 years in my opinion.

[BeachBumBrad]

04:54 PM on 03/30/2010

I agree.
It does not matter one bit if you believe in a Jewish Zombie, or a man that flew up to haven to be with his creator.
As long as you are willing to lop the heads off of people that do not agree with you become more than a bad joke.
I think the Greeks/Romans had the best fill-in for the questions they did not have an answer for. They had a lot of fun gods that they could use to keep things in place.

Of course they were lobbing heads off but for more straight forward reasons. Fun in the ring and basic power control. Well we have managed to drop the fun part (mostly), that leaves the power issue and tosses the religions into the ring with politics............This is basic, anyone disagree?

Politics is governing,good or bad. Religion is a blank space filler that is being misused, that is why you the followers are called sheep.Here dummy, take this bomb and go blow your self up and all those other people that disagree with me.

It is hard to believe that we can be that stupid and more frightening..........programmable.

No wonder people have such faith in fiction, the truth really scary. Some us are burdened with this truth.

[MedinaM]

05:49 PM on 03/29/2010

Are you kidding me? This title is extremely offending. Islamic Problem? You can say extremists or something, but to generalize Islam like this is very, very offensive. I wish HuffPost would change that and at least add extremists or something similar to that.

[dmyron]

06:26 PM on 03/29/2010

Agreed.

[hawkseye]

06:48 PM on 03/29/2010

Thanks for saying this.