Police suspect Moscow bus stop blast was terrorist attack

Interfax ^ | 08/25/04 | Interfax

[STFrancis]

Police suspect Moscow bus stop blast was terrorist attack

MOSCOW. Aug 24 (Interfax) - A senior police source said the bomb explosion at a bus stop in Moscow on Tuesday evening may have been a terrorist attack.

"The power of the explosive device was equivalent to more than 150 grams of trotyl [TNT]. The explosive device was stuffed with shrapnel," the source, who is an official with the city police authority, told Interfax.

He said the bomb went off at the moment when a bus was leaving the stop.

[RightWhale]

Alqaida doesn't take responsibility right away if ever.

[stlnative]

The incidents (plane crashes) come just days before a presidential election in Chechyna where Moscow has been battling separatist rebels for a decade. The rebels launched a major raid in the local capital Grozny last week and have promised more attacks.

[Once-Ler]

This is Bush's fault! If he hadn't unilaterally gone into Iraq the terrorists in Russia wouldn't have to punish Putin for trying to stall the Iraq invasion, and I find the timing of this suspicious. Just when Kerry releases his new ads against Bush and the swift boaters. Were is Bush anyways? He's got Cheney in the spotlight today while he is strangely missing from the scene. We all know that Bush can fly a jet. blah blah blah, blood for oil, Haliburton, Fahrenheit 911, miserable failure.

That was my impersonation of a moveon 'rat rant.

[mcgiver38]

Its beginning, been waiting for a while for the islamofacists to start wailing on europe, they will come to regret not supporting us very soon

[RJL]

I don't know how cooperative Russia has been in the war on terror, but the two planes and this bomb may push them firmly into the fight.

[MarMema]

May God Bless the souls of these Russians!

[MarMema]

May Putin hunt down the chechens behind this in their outhouses.

[stlnative]

4 Injured in Blast on Kashirskoye (Bus Explosion)

Bus Fire in Moscow Parking Lot Kills 5 (also happened yesterday)
A gas canister used for cooking near the front of the bus exploded at about 2:15 a.m., sparking the blaze that quickly spread through the vehicle parked on the seven-kilometer mark of the Moscow Ring Road, a police spokesman told Interfax.

Sounds odd...see link for picture of bus - is this same bus story, but they later figured out it was a bomb?

[stlnative]

I should have searched longer...

Moscow bus stop explosion caused by bomb

[Joe Hadenuf]

Waiting for those that think two airliners taking off from the same airport, and crashing within minutes of each other to come on here and tell us this is probably just a leaky train fuel tank explosion. Or one of a 300 different explanations.

[RightWhale]

I don't believe we're on the Eve of Destruction.

Old Vietnam song.

[Rockitz]

Yikes! Glad I flew home tonight.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Dang good song too.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Look for air fares and train fares to drop dramatically tomorrow.

[amom]

Oh, oh.

[Grampa Dave]

You forgot to label GW as an insensitive cowboy, who on his own caused this to happen.

[tiki]

Don't worry about it. It's just terrorism and it'll go away if you ignore it. By no means should anyone attack terrorist sponsoring nations, it will just make them mad at you.

[stlnative]

Double Terror Strike Fear as Russian Jets Crash

A Russian passenger jet crashed and another apparently broke up in the air almost simultaneously after they took off from the same airport, raising fears of a double terrorist atrocity.

[Libloather]

Doonesbury will be ALL over this one. Stay tuned...

[stlnative]

MORE detail at link in Post 38

Authorities said the Tu-134 was heading for the southern city of Volgograd, where Volga-Aviaexpress is based, while the plane that crashed in the Rostov region was flying to the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, where Putin is on holiday