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.

[revolted]

I think Moose delays his evening report as long as possible so that kids can get home from school safely, knowing the "sniper" is waiting for the report as well. Just my thoughts on the matter.

[mvonfr]

Police is blocking mobile phones around the area.

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

"Mobile" was a translation; unsure what they really meant; they may be taking down all phones.

Car bombs? -- I do not see how this is relevant. I think they are afraid of additional teams.

[MineralMan]

Some hate us. And it's a small group attacking. You're just incorrect in this, and punishing the entire Muslim world will do one thing, and one thing only: It will make all Muslims hate us, rather than the minority which hates us now. Bad idea.

[Smogger]

Here are some better translations via babelfish:

Sorry for the other crap posts:

It is renovated by 24.10.2002 into 01:04:42
Version for the press/printing

GUVD requests Muscovites not to leave to the street

GUVD of Moscow turned to the inhabitants of the capital.Muscovites they request not to leave to the street and to observe calmness.

According to the correspondent OF NTV, who leads reporting from the building of theatrical center "northeast", seized by chechenskimi terrorists , all regions of Moscow are at present surrounded and are patrolled.

The militia of Moscow works in the special regime/conditions.On all tsentral'nkh mains are advanced the posts.Furthermore, according to the correspondent, militia completely blocked Kapotni region.

The director OF FSB Nikolai Patrushev reported in straight/direct ether/ester of the first channel, that to the combat readiness were brought the subdivisions of the special-purpose center FSB, special-force MVD and Minoborony.Patrushev stated that in Moscow the government buildings and the important objects of infrastructure were undertaken under the special protection.

[BrooklynGOP]

"Mobile" was a translation; unsure what they really meant; they may be taking down all phones.

No, "mobile" means a cell phone.

[PoisedWoman]

01:20 — Seven shots inside the building. One terrorist wounded.

...and six hostages dead? Where are you getting these updates?

[AdvisorB]

Where you in Russia last month? Mockba?

[GovernmentShrinker]

Ah, MUCH better. I shall make a mental note never to use Prompt. Thanks for translating and posting these articles!

[swarthyguy]

>>rather than the minority which hates us now.

LOL! You buy that??????

Zogby's recent poll in Saudi showed 87% (yeah,that's right, 87 percent of "our friends, the Saudis" don't like us.)

"Our people very much hate the U.S.," said Soliman Al-Buthy, a Saudi engineer

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/774078/posts

[ET(end tyranny)]

CNN is reporting that the terrorists have released children and "non-Russians". (Wouldn't want to insult a relegion of peace, you know.)

I wondered IF 'non-Russians' was equal to MUSLIMS. By saying non-Russians, they make it look as though only Russians are targeted AND disguise the fact that they are protecting 'their own'. Wouldn't want the whole world to understand exactly what was going on ya know. jmo

[MarMema]

Thanks for posting. I have no trouble with the translations. Don't apologize. I was going to call friends in Moscow for news but it is the middle of the night there...

I am very thankful for your updates and pics!

[mvonfr]

...and six hostages dead? Where are you getting these updates? From voina.ru site.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Destroying Mecca would insure the undying hatred of every Muslim, and for now, we don't have that.

Are you sure about that? Every Muslim I have known, when you get him talking, will tell you about all his cousins, uncles, Sheiks, Imans, etc. who have an undying hatred of the West because of the Crusades in the 1500s. (or several other reasons.) Of course the person talking doesn't feel that way -- he just articulates all of the arguments as easily as we could recite Nursery rhymes.

[B-Chan]

"Neslavyanskoy" = "persons of non-Slav ethnicity". Gee, I wonder what the bad guys' ethnicity could be...?

[laconic]

St. Pete, I prefer it because of the museums. Its a lot slower than Moscow (like NY versus DC) but its a far nicer city and the people are more outgoing.

[MarMema]

ping for prayers..

[steveegg]

I'll give you most of the Muslims inside of the US (I'm feeling generous this afternoon; they merely don't hate us enough to kill us YET). However, once you leave the borders, and as you get closer to Mecca/Medina/Qom/et al, the number that hate us enough to kill us given an opportunity rapidly approaches 100%.

I guess the Saudi/Iranian governments should have considered that we wouldn't always stick with a "measured" response before unleashing al-Qaida/Hezbollah (we owe them a few)/et al.

[angkor]

The bolsheviks literally created the plo.

If you read the PLO "constitution", its pretty clearly a Marxist document full of incomprehensible socialist BS and blather from top to bottom.

[Centurion2000]

Every Muslim I have known, when you get him talking, will tell you about all his cousins, uncles, Sheiks, Imans, etc. who have an undying hatred of the West because of the Crusades in the 1500s.

Had a Pakistani janitor talk to me about how his uncle was a nuclear physics engineer and bomb designer over there. Boy he sure did hate Americans too. (His uncle, not him)