All potential suicide bombers must be made to understand that their murderous behavior will have dire consequences for their families. The Russian federation should start a publicity campaign with highway billboards and signs in public places (buses, metro, etc) which clearly convey the message that there is no Islamic Heaven that awaits foolish suicide murderers, and that there will be a hell which will descend upon their families as a result of their bloody crime. The public message should be very clear: there is no heaven - only hell for the surviving family members. These killers must understand that their entire families will suffer for their crimes.

There's nothing new in this. For centuries men have been recruiting emotionally vulnerable women and using them towards their own ends: to line their pockets for them as prostitutes, or for operations such as these. Let's be honest, the men recruiting these women are only pimps of a different order. The international media should not hesitate in depicting them this way. Why? Because these particular men may be preying on local women, but many more vulnerable women are being seduced via the internet. I've already heard of countless women who have abandoned everything, including boyfriend and home, in order to run off with Muslim men whom they have met over the internet. The usual process usually follows the same pattern: an emotionally or otherwise unstable woman 'meets' a muslim man over the internet and enters into an online romance with him. Even though they have not yet met in person, he promises to marry her if she converts to Islam, and moves to his country. Sometimes the woman is still living with husband/boyfriend while this is going on. Once converted, she abandons everything, buys a one-way ticket, and flies to some Islamic country or another in order to marry the man, often taking her children along with her. It's all typical in gaining control over the woman: isolate her from her friends and family, fill her head with a new doctrine, and then physically separate her from everything familiar by bringing her into a new environment where she probably can't even speak the language and becomes fully dependent on her new husband. One of the big red-flags, I'd say, is that many of these women get their training in Islam via internet web-sites and not local mosques. The media would be doing these women a great favor in exposing the dangers of these on-line relationships, and encouraging them to, at the very least, visit a local neighborhood mosque and speak with their Imam, instead of visiting some internet site, before making any hasty decisions.

What you are suggesting, Kihnu, is done by a losing side as a last ditch effort and usually is not effective anyways. It just makes the conflict bloodier, but does not change the outcome. Certainly, it is much easier for terrorists to do the same thing to the relatives of police officers and other government officials, than it is for government to do such things to relatives of terrorists. Another problem with your suggestion is where do you stop and draw the line? Do you kill the first of kin? Then each new person you kill have other relatives, which will be potential terrorist. This way you multiply the terrorists by 1000s. Russia is winning there, and should not antagonize people. Russia should double its efforts to stop the agitation from foreign sources. It should infiltrate these groups, and find out where the foreign source of agitation, arms, and money is. The final winner of any war is the side that wins the hearts of the other side. As Ben Franklin once said, and Winston Churchill repeated it: “Defeat is never fatal. Victory is never final. It’s courage that counts.” To win a war, Sun Tzu suggests in his writings "The Art of War", is to know yourself and your enemy: "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." Also, I can tell you mbach your writing will not win any friends or hearts in that region, it just inflames people of that region with rage, needlessly.