Breaking News : Moscow metro blast kills at least 22

[Insane3D]

MOSCOW - An explosion hits the Moscow metro during Friday morning rush hour, killing at least 22 people and wounding 30 and sending clouds of smoke through the tunnel, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.

A severe fire broke out in the underground train and passengers were being evacuated from Avtozavodskaya station, located about 300 yards from the site of the explosion, said Viktor Beltsov, spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry.

Beltsov said at least 22 people were killed and 30 wounded, but he could not confirm the cause. He said that rescuers were already on the site, and numerous ambulances could be seen outside the station entrance. Rescue workers carried empty stretches into the station. Moscow hospitals were put on alert.

Russia's Echo of Moscow radio, citing emergency workers, said that more than 150 people suffered from injuries including broken bones, smoke inhalation and burns.

MSNBC

 

[beer]

It takes a long strech of the imagination to figure out what caused a train explosion alright. Gee, I wonder? Could it be muslim terrorists, like every other blast that has occured in the world in the last five years? Gee, of course not

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: beer
It takes a long strech of the imagination to figure out what caused a train explosion alright. Gee, I wonder? Could it be muslim terrorists, like every other blast that has occured in the world in the last five years? Gee, of course not

Yep, it's all them Muslim terrorists. Especially those Japanese AUM Shinrikyo cronies.

Ooos, , I thought after the fact that in fact the Chechen seperatists were Muslim, but I didn't think to change it.

 

[kylebisme]

is there really anything that the arab terroists would have agaisnt moscow at this point? i don't really keep up on the former soviet union much but i'd assume they are bussy enough with their own issues that they wouldn't be pissing off people in the middle east lately. why do you think it would be the act of muslums, eh beer?

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: TheSnowman
is there really anything that the arab terroists would have agaisnt moscow at this point? i don't really keep up on the former soviet union much but i'd assume they are bussy enough with their own issues that they wouldn't be pissing off people in the middle east lately. why do you think it would be the act of muslums, eh beer?

It could be the chechen sepratists/crooks/gangs/terrorists. The chechnya region of russian is inhabited by chechens (mostly muslim). lots of them want to stay united, but there are sepratists as well, leading to some scrapping with russia.

It was autonomous SSR during the sojuz times.


During wwii, Stalin deported them all to Kazakh SSR (I'm not sure if it was true.. I forget now.. probably was though, some of them at least.. IIRC the reason was because of nazi collaboration - the union didnt take it easy on fashizmu). They came back in '57 i think. before the 1850s (?) the region was independent, iirc. so some are pissed off at russia i guess.


Since the fall of the SSSR, there have been crooked elections and such, and the russian army has been fighting. Chechens have done some bombings in other regions of russia, so its quite possible this could be that.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: TheSnowman
is there really anything that the arab terroists would have agaisnt moscow at this point? i don't really keep up on the former soviet union much but i'd assume they are bussy enough with their own issues that they wouldn't be pissing off people in the middle east lately. why do you think it would be the act of muslums, eh beer?

Google the chechenya situation. Things like this has happened before, and it will happen again. It's been going on for some time between the chechen rebels (almost entirely muslim) and the russians (almost entirely slavic)

Not all muslims are arab you know.

Suicide bomb attacks in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia have been the trademark of Chechen separatists fighting Russian forces for independence in their Muslim Caucasus homeland.

If confirmed, it would be the worst such attack by Chechen suicide bombers in Moscow since July 2003 when two women blew themselves up at an open-air music festival at the Tushino airfield, killing 14 other people.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20040206/ts_nm/russia_metro_dc

 

[InfectedMushroom]

Originally posted by: Colt45

Originally posted by: TheSnowman
is there really anything that the arab terroists would have agaisnt moscow at this point? i don't really keep up on the former soviet union much but i'd assume they are bussy enough with their own issues that they wouldn't be pissing off people in the middle east lately. why do you think it would be the act of muslums, eh beer?

It could be the chechen sepratists/crooks/gangs/terrorists. The chechnya region of russian is inhabited by chechens (mostly muslim). lots of them want to stay united, but there are sepratists as well, leading to some scrapping with russia.

It was autonomous SSR during the sojuz times.


During wwii, Stalin deported them all to Kazakh SSR (I'm not sure if it was true.. I forget now.. probably was though, some of them at least.. IIRC the reason was because of nazi collaboration - the union didnt take it easy on fashizmu). They came back in '57 i think. before the 1850s (?) the region was independent, iirc. so some are pissed off at russia i guess.


Since the fall of the SSSR, there have been crooked elections and such, and the russian army has been fighting. Chechens have done some bombings in other regions of russia, so its quite possible this could be that.

close, but not quite.
stalin didn't deport all of them, just about 500,000. they did return much later.
rusia did give them independence in the middle 90s after the first war, and basically told them to go fuvk themselves and live alone if they want to. they proptly attacked neighbouring republics trying to bring muslim rule there too. second war (kinda still going on now) started then.
now, i don't believe in preemptive strikes, but i do believe in retribution. back in the comunist time they would never have dared do something like a suicide bomb, because they knew at least 100,000 of their compatriots would be killed as a retribution. that doesn't fly under current democracies though.