Men Hold Moscow Audience Hostage [Reports of 1000 Hostages]

AP News ^ | OCTOBER 23, 14:03 ET

[McGruff]

MOSCOW (AP) — Armed men entered a Moscow theater Wednesday and took the audience hostage, the Federal Security Service said.

The theater was holding a performance of the musical Nord-Ost, one of the Russian capital's most popular productions.

The Interfax news agency said one of its reporters was inside the theater at the time of the raid. She told them in a telephone call that the men had fired into the air and were preventing the audience from leaving, the agency said.

Police units were on their way to the scene.

[Naspino]

It's all sniper talk right now. I-270 shut down.

All I have to choose from is Sniper News, Sniper News Network, and Microsoft Sniper NBC.

[txhurl]

hand grenade, it's phonetic

[livius]

I think something's happening for the Aussies. The problem is that you can't just go and bomb a country out of existence because of the actions of radical Islamics who are NOT even representative of that country.

I think a lot of pressure is being put on Megawati right now. She's got to dissociate her country from the Islamic loonies and decide which side they're on.

And if they don't choose the right side, they're on the target list...

[swarthyguy]

Hey, there's no Americans in the theatre. That's what counts. Now an enterprising individual could call Fox and tell them that their friend/relative visiting Russia was talking about seeing an authentic Russian popular play.....

[Naspino]

citizens of Georgia and muslims. Russian police promised a press conference every 30-40 minutes.

Dammit.. I knew Cynthia McKinney would be released.

[Charles Martel]

Russian police promised a press conference every 30-40 minutes.

Chief Moosekie?

[Skooz]

I guess a 1000 hostage held by a radical Islamic Terrorist group doesn't measure up to the eloquent Chief Moose........

..who says nothing yet it gets rerun and rerun and rerun and rerun.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Is this a Babelfish translation? It's unusually bad -- what could possibly be mistranslated into "pomegranate"?

[Think free or die]

"Algerian Muslim terrorists also used women, because they were less likely to be detected."

I've been wondering why it's been assumed that the beltway sniper is a man. It occurred to me that a woman wouldn't arouse suspicion and could move around any dragnet pretty readily on foot. A lot of stuff can fit into a large handbag, bookbag or even baby stroller. . .

[swarthyguy]

Until we NUKE MECCA to show the jihadis we're serious we're all just pissing in the wind.

[aristeides]

WTOP said Moose would speak around 6.

[MineralMan]

"what could possibly be mistranslated into "pomegranate"? "

Grenade. Same root.

[My Favorite Headache]

It is pathetic. This story should be covered live right now on all of the cable networks. Then go back to the Moose thing when he is ready to talk. Everyone dropping the ball. Time for everyone to e-mail the networks.

[Slip18]

I'm just catching up yet again, and I don't see anything on CNN nor FOX. What is going on?

[MarMema]

No idea what it means.

I think one of the terrorists threw a grenade at the police.

[Smogger]

They've made the case. We, the USA, have ignored it for over 6 years. Even now, we refuse to admit it or the Saudi funding and operation of the terror against the Russians. It's us, unfortunately.

See my post #89. That article makes it sounds like common knoledge. Incidentally the article is dated today.

[Skooz]

It's like a rerun of yesterday's sniper news. For cryin' out loud, the Moscow story is BIG news, isn't it? Shouldn't that trump yet another Moose-a-thon?

[livius]

I hate to sound like a tinfoil covered nut (or flake), but until Islam just goes away, things are going to be hellish.

[steveegg]

Too limited. I'd add Medina, Riyadh, Baghdad, Tehran, Qom and a couple of others to the list (1 city for each attack, starting with WTC 1)

[BrooklynGOP]

Breaking...

Vesti.ru confirms that all children have been released.