Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Men Hold Moscow Audience Hostage [Reports of 1000 Hostages]
AP News ^ | OCTOBER 23, 14:03 ET

Posted on 10/23/2002 11:12:47 AM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: chechnya; moscow; religionofpeace; theatresiege
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 721-740741-760761-780 ... 1,061-1,079 next last
To: McGruff; All
Thanks very much for the links and info. It's kind of ridiculous that 99% of the information I've been able to get on this story has been from this thread. To the rest of the news services - I guess it's a 'non-story'.
741 posted on 10/23/2002 3:22:41 PM PDT by Route66
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 732 | View Replies]

To: PoisedWoman
Yes, I see on sites like the Financial Times and the Dutch NOS Teletext mentioning the freed muslims and that they are muslim rebels.
742 posted on 10/23/2002 3:22:42 PM PDT by knighthawk
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 75 | View Replies]

To: PoisedWoman
Well whaddya know, they'll be letting little girls go to school next.
743 posted on 10/23/2002 3:23:07 PM PDT by swarthyguy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 735 | View Replies]

To: afraidfortherepublic
islam is psychosis.
744 posted on 10/23/2002 3:23:12 PM PDT by contessa machiaveli
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 713 | View Replies]

To: overtaxed_canadian
Were muslims really released or is this information being suppressed?

According to most foreign news sources Muslims were released. It seems our media is very reluctant to admit this.
745 posted on 10/23/2002 3:23:41 PM PDT by BJClinton
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 733 | View Replies]

To: PoisedWoman
Regardless, the AP reports that the Chechens tossed a grenade, but apparently the only person hurt was one of the other Chechens, and a doctor in the audience is treating him.

Hey, doc, what's up with that?

746 posted on 10/23/2002 3:23:47 PM PDT by Dog Gone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 735 | View Replies]

To: overtaxed_canadian
See my post #700 for the latest.
747 posted on 10/23/2002 3:23:48 PM PDT by Smogger
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 733 | View Replies]

To: aristeides
We don't have to kill them. We can do what we did to the Japanese here in WWII: intern them. Intern and deport.

Deport them to central Antartica.

748 posted on 10/23/2002 3:24:22 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 400 | View Replies]

To: RossA
circumcision among ethnic Russians

... does not happen. Some (not all) ethnic Jews would be circumsized, and I suppose some Muslims. No Orthodox or irreligious Russian would be circumsized. The identification is most likely by ethnic facial type (darker features), perhaps by the knowledge of some prayer or other custom.

749 posted on 10/23/2002 3:24:26 PM PDT by annalex
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 79 | View Replies]

To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
There's laws against polluting Antartica.

750 posted on 10/23/2002 3:25:50 PM PDT by swarthyguy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 748 | View Replies]

To: overtaxed_canadian
Were muslims really released or is this information being suppressed?

It's being suppressed. Early reports included all of this information, but since we now have the PC Religion of Peace, this has disappeared from US reporting.

Why don't we grow a pair? And despite the name, I'm not even male...

751 posted on 10/23/2002 3:26:04 PM PDT by livius
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 733 | View Replies]

To: Dog Gone
I doubt he has a choice. "Any doctors step forward or we shoot someone".
752 posted on 10/23/2002 3:26:43 PM PDT by swarthyguy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 746 | View Replies]

To: Jim Robinson; Route66
Thanks very much for the links and info. It's kind of ridiculous that 99% of the information I've been able to get on this story has been from this thread. To the rest of the news services - I guess it's a 'non-story'.

FR is the cutting edge of the cutting edge. Always has been.

753 posted on 10/23/2002 3:26:46 PM PDT by Travis McGee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 741 | View Replies]

To: Squantos
Thanks for the ping.
754 posted on 10/23/2002 3:27:15 PM PDT by ConservativeLawyer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: livius
Yeah the FNC update barely acknowledged that they were Chechens and that "they wanted an end to the war in Chechnya." Well, that kinda obscures the reality of the situation doesn't it?
755 posted on 10/23/2002 3:27:19 PM PDT by Skywalk
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 751 | View Replies]

To: Travis McGee
FR is the cutting edge of the cutting edge. Always has been.

Seconding that one. Thanks again, Jim Rob.

756 posted on 10/23/2002 3:27:46 PM PDT by JennysCool
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 753 | View Replies]

To: McGruff
The Russian government should up the ante and tell the terrorists to release all the hostages and surrender or else the government would begin wiping Chechen villages off the map one by one until their demands are met. Yielding to terrorism only encourages it.
757 posted on 10/23/2002 3:28:07 PM PDT by TexasRepublic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dog Gone
Yes, this does have an 'in like a lion, out like a lamb' nuance, doesn't it? (knock on wood)
758 posted on 10/23/2002 3:28:08 PM PDT by txhurl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 746 | View Replies]

To: Travis McGee
Everything on cable news has been sniper this, sniper that. Even when they have a major story elsewhere (they don't get much bigger, or sadder, than this) they refuse to give it one minute of airtime so they don't take away from the "experts" and the repetition of the same minimal news, over and over and over and over.
759 posted on 10/23/2002 3:28:46 PM PDT by laconic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 753 | View Replies]

To: Wordsmith
The lack of response to Bali was disturbing. I tried to write it off by saying we were too absorbed at that moment by the Iraq war resolution. And that it didn't actually happen in Australia. We'll just have to see how this plays out.

Not to mention the blasted sniper!

But seriously, outside of flowers and such at consulates, what else can Americans do? What's appropriate?

760 posted on 10/23/2002 3:29:01 PM PDT by ET(end tyranny)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 475 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 721-740741-760761-780 ... 1,061-1,079 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson