http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/29/moscow-subway-explosion-k_n_516581.html MOSCOW — Two explosions blasted Moscow's subway system Monday morning as it was jam-packed with rush-hour passengers, killing at least 37 people, emergency officials and news agencies said. Russia's top investigative body said terrorism is suspected in the blasts, although there was no immediate confirmation of how the explosions happened. Moscow Emergency Ministry spokeswoman Irina Andrianova said the dead in the first blast on included 14 people inside the train and another 11 people on the platform at the Lubyanka station in central Moscow. The station is underneath the building that houses the main offices of the Federal Security Service, the KGB's main successor agency. A second explosion hit the Park Kultury station about 45 minutes later. City police spokesman Viktor Biryukov said at least 12 people were killed in that blast. The last time Moscow was hit by a confirmed terrorist attack was in August 2004, when a suicide bomber blew herself up outside a city subway station, killing 10 people.
ODD. I am watching Die Hard, and the "who said we were terrorists?" scene came out just a few minutes ago. +
I don't know why I even bother with you but.. I wonder what happened to you that made you so hateful of Islam that in this time of tragedy, your initial reaction is to point a finger at Islam rather than show grief for the victims. This is terrible news. I hope they find every last one of the people involved.
Probably correct. If it is tied to the Chechneyans, that is. It is predominantly Sunni Muslim in that region and they are the one's sponsoring the groups that are killing civilians. DD
The subway bombing was done by checnyan seperatists who intend to seperate from Russia and form their own Islamic state.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...608580444.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEADNewsCollection Dozens Killed in Moscow Subway Explosions MOSCOW—Two blasts blamed on female suicide bombers ripped through packed Moscow trains during the morning rush hour Monday, killing at least 35 people, wounding dozens more and filling two stations with dense smoke as panicked commuters scrambled to escape. The chief of Russia's Federal Security Service said the preliminary investigation indicated the attacks were carried out by rebels from the North Caucasus region, where Islamic militancy has spread in recent years from a separatist movement in Chechnya into neighboring republics. No group claimed responsibility for the blasts, the deadliest attack on Moscow in six years. The first explosion, a few minutes before 8 a.m. (12 a.m. ET), tore through the second carriage of a subway train as it stood with doors open at Lubyanka station, beneath the headquarters of the Federal Security Service, the KGB's main successor agency. At least 23 people were killed, officials said. "An explosion thundered. People ran, covered in blood," Valery Svirin, a commuter, told Russia's Channel One television. "When I went upstairs I saw people lying on the ground. A man was bandaging a woman. She was unconscious. There was one dead body there." About 40 minutes later on the same subway line, another blast in the second carriage of a train waiting at the Park Kultury station, opposite Gorky Park, killed at least 12 more people. Sergei Shoigu, the minister for emergency situations, said another 102 people were injured in the blasts. President Dmitri Medvedev ordered security tightened and airports put on alert against what he called an attempt to destabilize the country. "We shall continue operations against terrorists without wavering and to the end," he said in televised remarks. Attacks blamed on Chechen separatists shook Moscow and other parts of central Russia for years until 2004, before Russian forces claimed to have subdued the rebels. Since then, the conflict and the bombings had all but stopped in and around the Russian capital, even as violence spread and intensified in the Caucasus republics of Dagestan and Ingushetia, fueled in part by Islamic militants intent on imposing religious rule. In November, Chechen Islamists claimed responsibility for a November bombing that killed 26 people aboard a high-speed train between Moscow and St. Petersburg. In recent weeks, Russian security services have killed several Islamist militant leaders in the Caucasus, including Said Buryatsky, who is blamed by the government for that bombing. Those killings raised fears of retaliatory strikes by the militants. Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov warned last month in a televised interview: "If Russians think that this war is happening only on television, somewhere far off in the Caucasus and will not touch them, we intend to show them that this war will return to their homes." With Monday's subway bombing, Muscovites suddenly felt more vulnerable than they had in years. "The terrorists wanted to demonstrate that no one in Russia can feel secure," said Sergei Mironov, the speaker of Russia's upper chamber of Parliament. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzkhkov told reporters that female suicide bombers had carried out both attacks while on board the trains. Alexander Bortnikov, the Federal Security Services chief, said both bombs were filled with bolts and iron rods. Female suicide bombers, dubbed "black widows," by Russian media, carried out at least two Moscow subway bombings in 2004, including one in August that killed 10 people. That was the last known terrorist attack on the capital until Monday. Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor's office, said authorities spotted a female suspect on a surveillance video in the Park Kultury train. "According to pieces of the body that we found," he said, "it seems that the bomb was placed at the level of the belt." An unidentified commuter who was on the train at Park Kultury told RIA-Novosti news agency: ''Somewhere in the first or second carriage there was a loud blast. I felt vibrations reverberate through my body. People were yelling like hell. In about two minutes everything was covered in smoke." Irina Kedrovskaya was heading up the escalator from the train platform at Park Kultury when the blast occurred. "Someone was shouting: 'Let us out!' The whole platform was loaded with people. They were repeatedly announcing on the radio that everyone should leave. There was a heat haze, a terrible odor. When we went outside, we saw ambulances approaching. They started to take the wounded out." Across town at the Lubyanka station, Ludmila Famokatova was selling newspapers on the street when she saw distraught people streaming from the subway. "One man was weeping, crossing himself, saying 'Thank God I survived.'" she said. Pyotr Nemtchinov, a 62-year-old engineer, was among the casualties at Lubyanka station. Bleeding from a severe leg wound, he managed to call his wife on his cell phone from a passageway to the street before emergency workers took him to a hospital, said his daughter, Yelena. He was undergoing surgery. Helicopters, rarely seen above Moscow, took some of the wounded to hospitals. Following the blasts, some streets in central Moscow were relatively quiet, while others were snarled with traffic, and some streets were closed. Moscow's subway system is one of the world's busiest, carrying about seven million passengers on an average workday. It is essential for transporting Muscovites since central streets and highways are regularly choked with traffic. The country's financial markets showed little reaction to the attacks, with the ruble weakening 0.1% to 29.59 against the dollar and sinking 0.2% to 34.20 against a basket of dollars and euros that the central bank uses to control its fluctuations. The Mices Index rose 1% to 1430.31 as oil prices climbed.
