Posted on 03/30/2010 4:48:53 AM PDT by myknowledge
Russia is holding an official day of mourning for the 39 people killed in Monday's twin suicide bombings on Moscow's metro system.
Scores of others were severely wounded when two female suicide bombers set off explosions at the height of the morning rush hour.
National flags will be flying half-staff in the Russian capital on Tuesday. Television shows and other forms of entertainment have also been canceled.
Russian President Dimtri Medvedev visited the Lubyanka station Monday, where the first explosion took place, and laid flowers on the platform. He referred to those responsible as "beasts" who will be destroyed.
(Excerpt) Read more at 1.voanews.com ...
A woman grieves near the flower tributes placed in memory of the subway blasts' victims at the Park Kultury (Park of Culture) subway station, which was earlier hit by an explosion, 29 Mar 2010.
The victims' families must be crying for revenge against the Chechens...
...wonder if Medvedev would authorize heavy-handed action.
While they reload and order tons of "baggies" to dispose of the enemy when they are through.
From the Conservative website, Heritage.org:
Putin's Poison?
by Peter Brookes, November 27, 2006
The death of former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, last week from radioactive Polonium-210 poisoning is the latest in a series of politically motivated attacks on the outspoken opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed112706a.cfm
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Blowing up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror
by Alexander Litvinenko, Yuri Felshtinsky, Geoffrey Andrews and Co (Translator)
Synopsis: Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London in November 2006. In the book he and historian Yuri Felshtinsky detail how since 1999 the Russian secret service has been hatching a plot to return to the terror that was the hallmark of the KGB. Vividly written and based on Litvinenko's 20 years of insider knowledge of Russian spy campaigns, Blowing Up Russia describes how the successor of the KGB fabricated terrorist attacks and launched a war. Writing about Litvinenko, the surviving co-author recounts how the banning of the book in Russia led to three earlier deaths.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Blowing-up-Russia/Alexander-Litvinenko/e/9781594032011
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"Complaining of persecution, in 2000 Mr Litvinenko fled to the UK where he sought, and was granted, asylum. But after settling in an unnamed London suburb, the former spy continued to behave as if on the run, constantly changing his contact details. The Times newspaper reported that over the summer someone tried to push a pram loaded with petrol bombs at his front door. Appearing alongside high-profile opponents of President Putin, he has continued to make allegations about his former bosses. Perhaps most notably, he alleged that al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri was trained by the FSB in Dagestan in the years before 9/11".
Good. Follow up on that line of thinking.
Condolences to the families and friends of the 39 innocents murdered.
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