[FairOpinion]

Doesn't say when the bomb exploded, as referenced to the time when the planes went down.

[ChadGore]

DUP: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198547/posts

[Zuben Elgenubi]

CNN Headline News just had a report from Moscow. Witnesses on the ground saw an explosion in one of the jets before it crashed.

[Bobby777]

pretty strange if coincidence ...

[The KG9 Kid]

Are there any civic engineers in the house who'd like to claim that TNT exploding a bus stop is no certain indicator of terrorism?

[redheadtoo]

Two planes go down in Russia within minutes of each other? I believe that the Russians also have an election coming up in a few days. I strongly suspect Bin Laudin's bloody hand is at work in this.

[r9etb]

"First a loud hissing was heard, and then something banged," one witness told the MTimes

That's good news -- it means that a lot of the energy from that bomb probably dissipated prior to the actual blast.

[Riley]

Assuming that this isn't a typographical error- 100-200 grams /TNT is a very small charge. That's a quarter to a half pound of TNT. I have charges like that set off a few feet away from me. Made my ears ring- that was about it.

Weird that they'd set so small a charge. Maybe it was pushing a lot of shrapnel or something.

[sully777]

Did the Ruskies shoot down two civilian planes or did explosives detonate inside planes? If AQ, the first act is more in line than second (the explosion in the lamp post was the calling card?). If Chechen rebels, then second option is the better answer because of upcoming elections. But why do the Chechen rebels remain silent so late in the game?

Another thought, possible AQ cell operation, without aid of centralized strategy and command. Command and control has been severly altered with Khan arrest and all the communications shut down. Is it an act from a splinter cell making name for self to other whackjobs or operating in the dark on old orders?

[wai-ming]

To avoid further terrorist acts, the Russians should get their troops out of Iraq.

Oh wait a minute, the Russians don't have troops in Iraq.

[Kirkwood]

I have a nephew in Moscow and he is moving out in a month or 2. He says the level of violence and threats of violence against him has increased several fold in the last year. A son of a friend moved there in January and moved out in March. Too dangerous.