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.

[swarthyguy]

I've found that friends of mine who are mothers of youngsters are really for some ruthless action once you ask them if they want their 2 year old to go through the same shit we're going thru.

[A. Pole]

They had an oil tanker rammed by terrorists, they know it is terrorists yet they still have not switched to our sides.

From Russian perspective the question is on which side we are - of the Saudi sponsored Wahabites in Chechnya or on the side of Russians?

[Dog]

Police is blocking mobile phones around the area.

Could they set off car bombs using cell phones???

[GovernmentShrinker]

According to the dictionary I checked, both use the root which means "grain" in Latin -- because the fruit is full of grains, and so is the grenade. Etymology is cool stuff.

[MarMema]

I just think it is probably significant that the terrorists are wives of those killed by Russians.

Isn't that the islamic thing - kill those who killed your family and die with honor in the process?

I don't think this was ever meant to be anything but a huge killing of people.

[The KG9 Kid]

Yes.

[swarthyguy]

You tell him A, Pole - great side effect of this thread is that more people realize that saudi SHOULD be our first target IMO.

Alqqaeda is what the world says when it wants to be polite talking about the Scummy Saudis.

[laconic]

I couldn't agree more. When I was last in Russia in mid-September, i was greatly impressed by the large number of average Russians who came up to me and expressed their concern for 9/11 and the hope that the US and Russia would stand together against this filth. I didn't hear this in Europe, only rumors of "dark plots" by the US government.

[BrooklynGOP]

Russia fought the War on Terrorism for years, ALONE

I always took the russian side in the chechen conflict, but at the same time dont' forget that russians have always supported palestinians.

[afraidfortherepublic]

...then the gun pointed at a bus in the DC area will.

Yeah. It's a real newsmaker when a van points a gun at a bus! :~)

[swarthyguy]

Assuming hostages are as good as dead......
Russia goes in with a heavy hand.

[yukong]

This breaks down roughly to US-UK-Israel plus a few minor states, v. China-Ruusia-Islam-US press-Godless Socialists-Humanists-Wiccans-France and other assorted Euroweenies-Academia-Narcissists-Rapists, Pedophiles, and Homosexuals-the Self-Important- and william jefferson clinton, et al.

Never really though about it in that light, but I guess that pretty much sums it up. Good call copycat

[MarMema]

Saudi Wahabites in Chechnya who specialise in conquering hospitals, theaters, invading other provinces, slave-trading and blowing up apartment buildings

Amen, and thank you for saying it.

[overtaxed_canadian]

The Soviet Union was the first nation in the world to recognize Israel.

[A. Pole]

I'm sure Mother Russia will side with civilization sooner or later.

Russia is the civilisation under the attack by the barbarians like Serbs in Kosovo were.

[BrooklynGOP]

Could they set off car bombs using cell phones???

That's probably to prevent the terrorists from communicating with their friends...

[Eala]

Could they set off car bombs using cell phones???

Easily. I once saw a website that showed even the non-technical how to wire it with Radio-Shack-level parts (though it was intended for an electronic timer).

[Wordsmith]

A good portion of Russia stacks up on the side of Christendom. The Orthodox take quite seriously their descent from the Christian Emperors of Byzantium.

[swarthyguy]

>>russians have always supported palestinians.

More like the Soviets, really. Hell, the French are friendlier to the Palestinians than the Russians.

[A. Pole]

There's something about that statement that is both humourous and ironic...I can't put my finger on it.

See my previous post.