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Police suspect Moscow bus stop blast was terrorist attack
Interfax ^ | 08/25/04 | Interfax

Posted on 08/24/2004 9:52:44 PM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: explosion; globaljihad; moscow; terror
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To: brigette

Alqaida doesn't take responsibility right away if ever.


21 posted on 08/24/2004 10:12:42 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: RightWhale
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.
22 posted on 08/24/2004 10:14:20 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: STFrancis

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.


23 posted on 08/24/2004 10:17:32 PM PDT by Once-Ler (Proud Republican. and Bushbot.)
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To: STFrancis

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


24 posted on 08/24/2004 10:18:11 PM PDT by mcgiver38
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To: STFrancis
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.
25 posted on 08/24/2004 10:21:03 PM PDT by RJL
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To: RussianConservative; RusIvan; kosta50; FormerLib; katnip

May God Bless the souls of these Russians!


26 posted on 08/24/2004 10:24:07 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: RussianConservative

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


27 posted on 08/24/2004 10:25:27 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: STFrancis
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?
28 posted on 08/24/2004 10:31:01 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: All
I should have searched longer...

Moscow bus stop explosion caused by bomb
29 posted on 08/24/2004 10:33:13 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: STFrancis
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.
30 posted on 08/24/2004 10:36:14 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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To: brigette
I don't believe we're on the Eve of Destruction.

Old Vietnam song.

31 posted on 08/24/2004 10:36:21 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: STFrancis

Yikes! Glad I flew home tonight.


32 posted on 08/24/2004 10:37:08 PM PDT by Rockitz (After all these years, it's still rocket science.)
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To: RightWhale

Dang good song too.


33 posted on 08/24/2004 10:37:23 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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To: Rockitz

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


34 posted on 08/24/2004 10:38:16 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub

Oh, oh.


35 posted on 08/24/2004 10:38:55 PM PDT by amom
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To: Once-Ler

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


36 posted on 08/24/2004 10:40:57 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (https://www.swiftvets.com/swift/ccdonation.php?op=donate&site=SwiftVets)
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To: STFrancis

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.


37 posted on 08/24/2004 10:41:30 PM PDT by tiki
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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.
38 posted on 08/24/2004 10:41:47 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: STFrancis

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


39 posted on 08/24/2004 10:41:48 PM PDT by Libloather (What did Bergler stow - and when did he stow it?)
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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
40 posted on 08/24/2004 10:44:02 PM PDT by stlnative
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