Posted on 12/14/2004 9:17:28 PM PST by Destro
Albanian terrorists take Greek bus hostages
My Sat news is reporting 2 Albanians took an unknown number of hostages on the bus. Bus driver escaped.
A wave of such terror attacks hit Greece in the 90s.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ned=us&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Bus+hostages+Greece&lr=&sa=N&tab=nw
ping
Man who spoke with his father IN THE BUS reporting the passengers in the bus are not doing well. Apparently the passenger was permitted to make a call to his wife to let her know he was alive and well.
Reporters are saying that the police trained these types of scenarios for the recent olympics.
Police have told reporters to stop showing police movement (snipers, swat types etc.)
Hijackers now demanding that the car parked w/i a foot behind the bus be moved. (per Greek TV.)
TO RUSSIA?
OHH that bad idea I THINK if I know KGB they arrest them at airport
Hassan is an Arabic name, not a true Russian name.
Antenna TV (Greece) just interviewed the father of one of the hostages who claims his daughter just called him and told him it's a "bad state" on the bus and that the terrorists were "Russians".
"Hassan is an Arabic name, not a true Russian name"
My thoughts too when I read that.
Also a common name for chechens.
cnnFN about to do a story on the situation. (for those who don't speak Greek)
This is no small feat mind you, because the owner of Kavkaz.org was originally hiding in Turkey for a long, long time and Russia kept pressing for extradition but had no luck. So Turkey used to be a chechen sympathizer but now it seems the chechens are extremely angry, according to their sites, about how well it went between Putin and the leader of Turkey. And about the door-to-door housecleaning that took place before Putin arrived in Turkey. Poor terrorists!
Greece and Turkey are close, both Orthodox Christian and strongly supportive of the Serbs.
Along comes a terrorist group in Greece who claim to be Russian. Is this a dividing tactic?
These are chechens or I am eating my hat in the morning.
Make that Greece and Russia are close. Too late at night.
Forgive me for the stupid error.
Swedish news and the BBC are also saying Russian now, "although at first it was believed the hijackers were Albanians."
Nothing like making it worldwide to humiliate the Russians, which is the chechen game of the day, every day.
I don't think they will do any humiliating, only lose more support for thier cause. People are tired of all these terrorist acts. No sympathy for terrorists!
both may be right.
hijackers have some kind of bags or backpacks. On reporter is trying to speculate on contents. He is trying to speculate it is hand grenades.
Hijackers are letting the elderly sick to call relatives to stir tension. One passenger with heart problems called relatives, apparently was on his way to doctors. Families begging do something.
something was just thrown out the bus. It was thrown by woman out of driver's window.
object thrown out of bus looks like a small bundled shirt or jacket.
Don't see how police will retrive item without causing more random shooting.
Hostage taking is a chechen specialty. My guess is this will get very ugly soon. What you are describing is very typical sadistic behavior of chechen terrorists. Who else takes hostages and then has them make phone calls?
Just to have this kind of situation and for the terrorists to say they are Russian, that makes Putin's day an entirely new one from what he had planned.
A hundred wire hangers hooked together?
From about 4 days ago. There are no coincidences.
December 9, 2004.
Russia, Greece BOOST COUNTER-TERRORISM COOPERATION
"A relevant joint statement was signed by the Russian President and Greek Prime Minister following the bilateral top-level talks."
Also Dec 9,2004
So this is the chechens punishing Greece for agreeing to work closely with Russia against terrorists.
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