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2010-03-29 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Deadly explosions on Moscow Metro system

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Posted by 3dc 2010-03-29 01:08|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 TWO suicide bombers blew themselves up today on trains on Moscow's metro system, killing more than 30 people during morning rush-hour, emergency workers and prosecutors said.

More at link

Posted by phil_b 2010-03-29 03:12|| 2010-03-29 03:12|| Front Page Top

#2 See also TOPIX > RUSSIAN "NYET" TO NATO EXTENSION EAST.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-03-29 03:24|| 2010-03-29 03:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, it's Russians' own fault for supporting the Zionist entity.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-29 04:39|| 2010-03-29 04:39|| Front Page Top

#4 THE twin blasts on the Moscow metro that killed dozens of people today were carried out by female suicide bombers, Russia's FSB security service said.

Posted by phil_b 2010-03-29 04:46|| 2010-03-29 04:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Expect western feminazis to gush about "Gender equality in Islam".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-29 04:50|| 2010-03-29 04:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Radio said stations were very deep, so it takes longer to get out and complicates rescues. Imagine 150 feet of stairs - going up.

Posted by Bobby 2010-03-29 05:49|| 2010-03-29 05:49|| Front Page Top

#7 These subway systems also doubled as bomb bunkers so rescue so deep underground is very cumbersome and time consuming.

There will be hell to pay for this.

Posted by newc 2010-03-29 06:17|| 2010-03-29 06:17|| Front Page Top

#8 It's Bush's fault.

Posted by no mo uro 2010-03-29 06:24|| 2010-03-29 06:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Some photos from the scene of the attack (Warning .. some are graphic)

Posted by tipper 2010-03-29 06:37|| 2010-03-29 06:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Russia Today is streaming coverage here:

I've been to both those stations. The centrally located one is very, very, deep.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2010-03-29 08:37|| 2010-03-29 08:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Don't know why the link function didn't work, but it's here: http://rt.com/On_Air.html

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2010-03-29 08:37|| 2010-03-29 08:37|| Front Page Top

#12 This dude is the prime suspect in the Russian coverage.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2010-03-29 08:39|| 2010-03-29 08:39|| Front Page Top

#13 Russians will not be politically correct in their response.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2010-03-29 09:03|| 2010-03-29 09:03|| Front Page Top

#14 If only we had sprayed the poppy fields of Afghanistan ...

Posted by Steve White 2010-03-29 09:40|| 2010-03-29 09:40|| Front Page Top

#15 The Russians launched their version of a 'truce and dialogue' solution to Chechnya about six months ago.

Subsequently, they (the Russians) gathered a lot of praise from various internationalists, moderate moslems, etc.

Hope and change.

Posted by lord garth 2010-03-29 09:44|| 2010-03-29 09:44|| Front Page Top

#16 If only we had sprayed the poppy fields of Afghanistan ...

Time to offer this task to the Russians?

Posted by gorb 2010-03-29 10:29|| 2010-03-29 10:29|| Front Page Top

#17 Russian advisors in Afghanistan. Is it time?

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-29 10:32|| 2010-03-29 10:32|| Front Page Top

#18 Bring SpetsNaz to Helmland province to do the mokriye dela. Share missile technology with the Russians and put a joint US-Russian base on Ajad's doorstep, in Azerbaijan.

Posted by lex 2010-03-29 10:37|| 2010-03-29 10:37|| Front Page Top

#19 And pay Putin whatever his price is, transferred to his numbered accounts in Zurich and Vaduz. Can't be more than a TARP, max.

Posted by lex 2010-03-29 10:38|| 2010-03-29 10:38|| Front Page Top

#20 Oh but Lex, the Spetsnaz are icky. They use Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and operate after the sun goes down.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-29 10:43|| 2010-03-29 10:43|| Front Page Top

#21 That's OK Besoeker,
They don't have anyone with a last names of Bush or Cheney.

Posted by Frozen Al 2010-03-29 11:39|| 2010-03-29 11:39|| Front Page Top

#22 The former Soviet state has never been hesitant about meting out retribution on Islamic hardliners. When Islamic fundamentalists kidnapped four Soviet diplomats in Beirut on 30 September 1985, at the height of the foreign hostage crisis in Lebanon, and demanded Moscow press its client state Syria to stop shelling Sunni Muslim militiamen in the northern port of Tripoli, the KGB responded with characteristic vigour.

After clandestine negotiations failed to secure the men's release, Soviet agents grabbed half a dozen fundamentalists in West Beirut and reportedly sliced off a few of their fingers, sending the severed digits to the fundamentalist leadership with the message: "Release our people or you'll get your people back piece by piece."

Link

Posted by Besoeker 2010-03-29 11:44|| 2010-03-29 11:44|| Front Page Top

#23 sorry but why would Russia want our say in anything like this. Seems too me their responses have been alot better than ours and they have plenty of good weapons. Their only weak spot is the conscript army like was sent too chechnya in the first place.

Posted by chris 2010-03-29 13:13|| 2010-03-29 13:13|| Front Page Top

#24 WAFF > AZERBAIJIAN SAYS PLOT THWARTED TO ATTACK SCHOOL.

* SAME > HAMAS CALLS FOR SUICIDE OPERATIONS AGZ ISRAELI BUSES AND RESTAURANTS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-03-29 19:01|| 2010-03-29 19:01|| Front Page Top

#25 Just in case you're wondering what's in it for the female suicide bombers:
Girls Gone Wild
Fundamentalist Muslim mythology has it that terrorist "martyrs" are greeted in heaven by 72 virgins. With Palestinian Arabs increasingly making use of female suicide bombers, we've often wondered what they get in heaven. Now we have the answer, thanks to a report in London's Sunday Telegraph from an Israeli prison:

One of the inmates, Ayat Allah Kamil, 20, from Kabatya, told me why she had wanted to become a martyr: "Because of my religion. I'm very religious. For the holy war [jihad] there's no difference between men and women shaid [martyrs]."

According to the Koran, male martyrs are welcomed to Paradise by 72 beautiful virgins. Ayat, as with many of the women she is incarcerated with, believes that a woman martyr "will be the chief of the 72 virgins, the fairest of the fair."

That is to say, the highest aspiration for a fundamentalist Palestinian girl is murder, suicide and prostitution. Has there ever been a more depraved culture?

Posted by tipper 2010-03-29 21:51|| 2010-03-29 21:51|| Front Page Top

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