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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
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To: mitchbert
What you and all of us are seeing in action is a phenomenon Touché!
Just another reason I love FR! GiddyUp!
To: mitchbert
Olympic Coverage. ONLY American athletes with so much schmaltz..... very hard to watch all those soft focus slomo shots....Borint IMO.
The BBC covers all events and focuses on the ones with competition.
To: swarthyguy
I just came back -- PLEASE TELL ME -- that we have not been analyzing a tree stump for FOUR straight hours while all of this is happening in Russia. This is intolerable. If any Russians are reading this -- we're not all dimwits -- we just get out news from dimwits.
983
posted on
10/23/2002 7:17:27 PM PDT
by
Naspino
To: Tolik
ANYONE
There is a solution:
Use fiber optics to see inside. Use the ventilation system. Slowly fill building with gas (nitrous oxide is good).
When all are uncoscious, quickly remove the hostages. Do what you like with the terrorists.
This has worked before. Can anyone get this to officials in Moscow?
To: gcruse; swarthyguy
Thanks, gcruse.
Swarthyguy, check out post #979 for update.
985
posted on
10/23/2002 7:18:25 PM PDT
by
livius
To: swarthyguy
Is there ANY internet feed that is covering the Russian hostage situation?
986
posted on
10/23/2002 7:18:32 PM PDT
by
Naspino
To: swarthyguy
I was in Berlin during the Atlanta summer games and caught some coverage on BBC World. Totally agree.
To: gcruse
"The situation is very tense, with the military in a ring round the building. "
. . .know our 'breaking news' and sniper coverage is beyond the pale tonight, but it is amazing that no has even referenced this 'happening' in Moscow. . .
What a horror for these people!
. . .and a really bad sign of things to come.
988
posted on
10/23/2002 7:19:01 PM PDT
by
cricket
To: gcruse
The situation is very tense Thanks so much for the updates!
To: Naspino
BBC World Service Live Internet Feed
I was using this link this afternoon. They at least has regular updates. Don't know about now but a good bet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml Click "Live Now" in the 24 Hour News box on the top right of the page.
To: Hank Kerchief
Don't worry the Russians know what they're doing. I just have a feeling that when the sun first starts rising over Moscow the operation will start and end quickly. Sunrise and sunset are times of dangerously bad visibility, worse in a way than the pitch black of night.
To: GirlShortstop
You're welcome. DirecTV is so cool.
992
posted on
10/23/2002 7:22:54 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: Hank Kerchief; Viktor
ANYONE... There is a solution Ingenious! How about a ping to Viktor... is he in Russia?
Use fiber optics to see inside. Use the ventilation system. Slowly fill building with gas (nitrous oxide is good).
When all are uncoscious, quickly remove the hostages. Do what you like with the terrorists.
This has worked before. Can anyone get this to officials in Moscow?
To: Naspino
Our TV folks are dimwitted nitwits.
SHAME ON THEM. This is Russia, after all. And this is HUGE. All they need is a feed from Russian TV, or Canadian or the BBC.....
Not Phillipines or Indonesia. i'll give a get out of jail card for that and india.
They cover Israel, tho tonite I doubt they'd even go live to anyplace there no matter what happened.
A UHaul truck for half an hour. LOL!
To: Hank Kerchief
When all are uncoscious, quickly remove the hostages. Do what you like with the terrorists.Might I suggest that you remove the terrorists first since there are less of them and it would be quicker, let the 700 hostages sleep it off until morning.
To: GirlShortstop
>>Slowly fill building with gas
Nitrous is slow. Ever had it at the dentist? You need something completely pervasive and fast acting.
To: ChicagoRepublican
You have to wonder if the terrorists have nearly as much explosives in the theater as they want us to believe. Either it was prepositioned, which is doubtful, or they brought in mines and explosives with them undetected.
997
posted on
10/23/2002 7:25:07 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: mitchbert
I found it before I read your post -- still looking for a better one -- they are doing a world roundup of economics right now it sounds like.
Live Radio Feed
998
posted on
10/23/2002 7:26:04 PM PDT
by
Naspino
To: Naspino
Check this thread. ( i know, i know ) Previous posts first 100 had some and someone put a link to the Beeb. RealAudio I think....
To: Naspino
Excellent. It's coming in 5x5.
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