Chemical Plant Blows Up South of Moscow: Special Forces on Scene (debka)

DEBKAfile ^ | 5/25/05 2:04 PM | Diane Shalem

[gopwinsin04]

Chemical plant at neighboring Novomoskovsk south of Moscow blows up sending large white toxic cloud aloft.

Emergency ministry teams and army helicopters try and cope with contamintation .

Large fire erupts at Army theatre and central sewage farm flooded.

Electricity breakdown that brought choas to Moscow Wednesday traced to explosion--possibly sabotage--in city's southern power station.

Efforts to restore the system by diverting power from neighboring areas caused a chain reaction.

[gopwinsin04]

Pravda also is reporting the blast as well.

[OXENinFLA]

This and a power outage...........

[WakeUpAndVote]

I wonder if they will continue to sell arms to islamofasists?

[tfecw]

"This and a power outage..........."

Don't forget the lake that disappeared the other day ;)

[gopwinsin04]

http://www.newsfromrussia.com/accidents/2005/05/25/59967.html

[steveegg]

I was going to make a joke about Debka and Pravda, but you just provided a third link. That's going to leave a mark.

[cripplecreek]

Lakes do that sometimes. I would have loved to have watched this one.

http://members.tripod.com/~earthdude1/texaco/texaco.html

[gopwinsin04]

Debka is challenging the CBS News and Newsweak record for accuracy!

[tfecw]

Yup!

I might have to find a lake over a salt deposit, charge admission, and then make it disappear one of these days.

[Wiz]

Debka... Debka... Debka...

[Wiz]

ping!

[steveegg]

Debka is challenging the CBS News and Newsweak record for accuracy!

When you get that low in the accuracy department, it's kind of hard to keep track. Isn't the all-time record held by ITAR-TASS?

[jb6]

It's Debka, I'll wait till a serious source reports it. I'm still waiting on confirmation of Debka's special reports on the 2 Iraqi divisions that infiltrated to attack Israel and the 1 million man army Putin sent to conquer Afghanistan.

[ken5050]

Wasn't this a Tom Clancy plot?

[Strategerist]

Actually DUMBKA mostly just lifts stuff from other sources, usually BBC world service or some obscure newswire and doesn't credit it; likely the case here. Only a fraction of their stories are the silly stuff they make up out of thin air (Chinese troops in Afghanistan, etc.)

[poobear]

I smell terrorism.

[Dallas59]

Terrorism? Shame on you...."Freedom Fighters"..

(sarcasm suit on)

[poobear]

These incidents sound like a practice run. Hopefully our former Soviet Union patriots will 'round them up, kill them first and then worry about who's guilty. Kind of like the theater standoff several years ago.

Tolerance, not my forte.

[jb6]

Yup, about par for Debka. Read a book made a "report". What amazes me is how many people still believe everything some yahoos put on the net. Speaking of Yahoo, just did a search of the News keyword Russia and not a word of this from any sources. Somehow I'm not surprised.

[Chode]

search on "Moscow"
the chemical plant blew because of the power outage in Moscow according to cBS so consider the source...