[Travis McGee]

They may have no real demands.

They may just be waiting for the world to be watching before they blow up or machine gun the audience.

Explosions often result in extremely fast moving fires as we saw in Bali: they could all die horribly.

[Angelus Errare]

I figure that they're going to wait until the whole place is rigged to blow and then cut loose with everything they've got before the Russians move in.

From what I understand, blowing up a building isn't all that a hard a thing to do, plus they'd take everyone out with them.

It'd be the Russian equivalent of 9/11.

Just the kind of message that Barayev and Co. want to send to Putin.