Description
If body count is the terrorists’ goal, then surface transportation provides an attractive target— crowds of strangers in confined environments. While Umarov’s Chechen predecessors carried out spectacular hostage seizures at hospitals, a primary school, and even at a theater in the heart of Moscow, trains, subways, and buses have featured heavily among their targets.
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Publication Type
Report
Topic
Security and Counterterrorism
Mineta Transportation Institute URL
Disciplines
Transportation
Recommended Citation
Brian M. Jenkins and Bruce R. Butterworth. "By the Numbers: Russia’s Terrorists Increasingly Target Transportation" Mineta Transportation Institute Publications (2014).
