Zarema Muzhakhoyeva (also transliterated as Muzhikhoeva; ; born 1980) is an

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woman and would-be '' shahidka'' ( female suicide bomber) who surrendered to Moscow police on July 9, 2003, instead of blowing herself up. Before being sent to Moscow, Muzhakhoyeva also failed a mission to attack a bus with the

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personnel in Mozdok,

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, and lived in the house of

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in Ingushetia.They Don't Teach Us to Give Ourselves Up, They Teach Us to Push the Button // The Supreme Court Refuses Zarema Muzhikhoeva's Appeal
'' Kommersant'', Sep. 01, 2004The Black Widows of Chechnya
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'', 17 September 2004 Later, an FSB

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expert, Maj. Georgy Trofimov, was killed while attempting to defuse Muzhakhoyeva's devices. Muzhakhoyeva was put in the high-security Lefortovo Prison and agreed to become an informant for the FSB; later, she also gave several interviews to the Russian media. Despite her full cooperation with the FSB, which led to several arrests and killings of Riyad-us Saliheen members in Moscow and Chechnya, her young age, and her lack of previous criminal record, in April 2004 she was found guilty of all charges including

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and sentenced to 20 years in a

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camp on demand of the

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, which did not find any extenuating circumstances in her case. Her appeal to the Russian Supreme Court was also rejected. Muzhakhoyeva later told a Russian newspaper she had turned to terrorism after her husband was killed in a business dispute and she had stolen jewelry from her grandparents and been frozen out by relatives.Heintz, Ji
'Black widows' tied to decade of terror in Russia
''Yahoo News''. July 16, 2015

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