Posted on 11/06/2008 9:19:05 AM PST by mojito
An explosion hit a minibus unloading passengers in the capital of Russia's North Ossetia province on Thursday, killing 11 people, federal investigators said.
A duty officer at the Emergency Situations Ministry in North Ossetia, who was not authorized to give his name, said the blast was caused by a roadside bomb.
Passengers were getting off the bus near the entrance to the central market in Vladikavkaz when the blast went off, Russia's Investigative Committee said on its Web site.
NTV television showed footage of the minibus with windows shattered and an axle destroyed, with shards of glass and what looked like human remains on the pavement.
The Investigative Committee, a branch of the national prosecutor-general's office, said it had opened an investigation into what may have been a terrorist attack. It said 11 people were killed.
The Emergency Situations Ministry officer said seven people were killed. The Interfax news agency cited North Ossetia's leader, Teimuraz Mamsurov, as saying preliminary reports indicated eight were dead.
North Ossetia borders war-scarred Chechnya as well as Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region, the focus of a war in August between Russia and Georgia.
It has been the site of several bomb blasts since the start of Russia's wars against Chechen separatists over a decade ago. North Ossetia and other provinces in Russia's restive North Caucasus have been plagued by terrorist and militant attacks linked to the wars in Chechnya and internal disputes.
Ethnic Ossetians predominate in both North Ossetia and South Ossetia. Russia recognized South Ossetia as an independent nation after the August war, but the only country to follow suit s far is Nicaragua.
A car bomb blast last month killed seven soldiers outside Russia's military headquarters in South Ossetia. Russian authorities claimed it was a terrorist bombing meant to wreck the tense cease-fire that ended the war with Georgia.
Georgian officials claimed Russia was behind the blast.
It’s Obama’s fault.
Inside KGB, eh FSB job which will be blamed on Georgian “Commandos”. Russia needs some trigger to get involved again in spreading their empire. With Obama elected, nothing will stop them.
Is the KGB really back in?
Zeros fault!!!
Putin=KGB
How do you say “Reichstag Fire” in Russian?
I love it when a plan comes together.
The KGB was never dismantled in Russia. It just went underground. Now, it has resurfaced.
I talked to an acquaintance of mine who is an ex-KGB double agent for the US (retired). I asked him about Putin....and basically he said he had NEVER stopped. He said, ‘once KGB, ALWAYS KGB’.
They are licking their chops already! I hope all our ‘allies’ who where so generous in their support of Mr. Hope and Change remember this when they find their a^%es in a wringer again.... whether its hurricane/drought/earthquake/tsunami relief or outright military support... Uncle Sam may have undergone a sort of change in his view of helping the few, vulnerable and weak.
Also, Joe Sixpack here in the US who is usually so openhanded in $$$ assistance for the less fortunate globally, will be undergoing a few changes of his own. Given the positively rapacious attack Mr. Hope and Change plans on individual income in the US, Mr. Ally will probably die waiting for the traditional largess from Joe Sixpack. Sorry guy, charities right here at home will be doing without as well. Their share of Joe Sixpack's generosity will dry up so fast it will make their heads spin. But no on wants to talk about that!
Coombyah!!! Can’t we all just get along!! The messiah is now the President and peace is at hand. Ha! Ha!
Containing Russia should be one of our very top priorities, however it won’t.
Quick some hopenchange.
“Quick some hopenchange.”
This just made me lol in my cubicle.
This is the Russians’ reward for their savagery against Georgia. Many more Russians must die for the sins of their evil leaders.
RIP.
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