Terrorist Attack in Russia?

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John Uskglass

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MOSCOW - A Russian airliner crashed south of Moscow, and another passenger jet went missing about the same time after both took off from Moscow, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Wednesday. There was no word on survivors.

Witnesses reported seeing an explosion before the plane crashed, and authorities were not ruling out terrorism, the agency said.

A Tu-134 airliner that apparently had 42 people aboard crashed in the Tula region, 125 miles south of Moscow, at about 10:56 p.m. Tuesday, ITAR-Tass reported, citing the Emergency Situations Ministry.

A Tu-154 with 44 people aboard went missing about the same time near Rostov-on-Don, about 600 miles south of Moscow, but authorities had not found any wreckage, ITAR-Tass said.

Earlier, however, the agency said emergency officials reported that the second plane crashed about three minutes after the first one.

Quoting an unnamed air traffic official in Moscow, where both planes originated, ITAR-Tass said authorities were not ruling out terrorism. The agency also reported that witnesses said they saw an explosion before the Tula region crash.

The plane that crashed near Tula was headed to the southern city of Volgograd, while the plane that disappeared was flying to the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, where President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) is vacationing, ITAR-Tass reported.

When Russia's U.N. Ambassador Andrey Denisov was told of the initial report of two near simultaneous crashes, he said, "Now we have to see if there's terrorism."

In Washington, a senior U.S. State Department official said, "We are obviously concerned by the news. We're following developments closely and trying to determine the facts."

The U.S. Homeland Security Department was monitoring the situation but was not implementing any additional security measures in the United States, spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said.

The crash comes only days before Sunday's presidential election in the breakaway republic of Chechnya (news - web sites). Pro-Russian President Akhmad Kadyrov was killed by a bombing in May.

A series of deadly explosions in recent years has claimed hundreds of lives in blasts that have been blamed mostly on Chechen separatist rebels.
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At least they didn´t try to replicate 911 and hit Kreml or such - would have stirred things up quite a bit.

Anyway, terrorism in Russia is mostly related to Chechen rebels. I´m pretty sure Al-Gayda has nothing to do with this . .
 
I love the part of the story, where they blame the Chechenyan separatist for the death of the 100 persons in the Moscovite theater. No, dumbasses, they were killed by the gas the cops used.

Other than that, scary stuff.

Mad, Chechen terrorists could obtain support from other organizations, not only Al-Quaeda. Grab your atlas and check the location of Chechnya.
 
Still wouldn't rule out mechanical failure at this point. Unlikely due to the limited time-frame, but hardly impossible.
 
I'm still a little worried.

I have a friend who lives in Russia now, and nobody can get a hold of her. She's hard to reach usually anyway, so I'm not too worried yet...
 
Wooz69 said:
I love the part of the story, where they blame the Chechenyan separatist for the death of the 100 persons in the Moscovite theater. No, dumbasses, they were killed by the gas the cops used.

Other than that, scary stuff.

Mad, Chechen terrorists could obtain support from other organizations, not only Al-Quaeda. Grab your atlas and check the location of Chechnya.
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They're north of Azerbaijann. They where Islamified, oddly enough, by Ottoman slavecatchers in the area, who would catch Chechen women for their famed beauty. It's really kind of funny, because the Sultans where having so much Chechen loving us modern folk are'nt able to because they Islamafied them :cry:

Area belongs to Russia. They're on the third biggest fron on the war on terrror, I say let the Bear have his rightful revenge. Not only that, but it means Prisoner of the Caucases might be on TV more.


I have a friend who lives in Russia now, and nobody can get a hold of her. She's hard to reach usually anyway, so I'm not too worried yet...
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80 out 0f 120,000,000.......you're chances are pretty good there. She did'nt abandon the Orthodox Church I hope :cry:
 
'K, but how many people do you think can afford to fly there on a regular basis. Let alone for work related reasons. That would bring her a lot closer to the eighty than the 120,000,000.

Prolly not orthodox anymore, neither is her GIRLFRIEND!. Sheesh.

/edit: oops, I don't think I ever talked about her here before... Disregard astonishment.
 
I love the part of the story, where they blame the Chechenyan separatist for the death of the 100 persons in the Moscovite theater. No, dumbasses, they were killed by the gas the cops used.
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And you dont know the biggest joke concerning that at all:
Two days after 100 hostages died the "Senator of Internal affairs" of Hamburg said to a newspaper that "it could be a great idea to have this gas in the arsenal of German police forces to use it as a non-lethal weapon" :ugly:
 
It had to be terrorism...something as rare as a plane crash doesnt happen twice on the same day.

I really hope Bush doesnt use it as an example to justify the War on Terror.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
CCR said:
Area belongs to Russia. They're on the third biggest fron on the war on terrror, I say let the Bear have his rightful revenge. Not only that, but it means Prisoner of the Caucases might be on TV more.
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Why is that I expected something along those lines coming from you?
 
The Chechnyans have developed something called a sense of, what is it... nationalism? I think they'd beg to differ.
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Grozny-the capital-has twice as many Russians as Chechens. It's as Russian as kids in a delapidated, seemingly postapocolyptic wasteland sniffing glue.

Why is that I expected something along those lines coming from you?
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Cause I'm a genius.
 
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