The device was first probed by a remote-controlled robot
The explosives expert tried to defuse the device
Posted on 07/09/2003 8:31:35 PM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29
Days after a deadly suicide blast which killed 14 people at a weekend rock show, Moscow was once again gripped by terrorism fears as an explosive device went off near a restaurant in downtown Moscow early today, killing an FSB state security service expert who sought to disarm it.
According to police sources cited by Interfax, a woman tried to bring a rucksack with what appeared to be an explosive device into a restaurant on Tverskaya-Yamskaya, Moscow's main thoroughfare, and tried to flee when the restaurant's security attempted to search the rucksack.
The woman was reportedly apprehended and the rucksack thrown out into the street, which the police had promptly cordoned off, sources added.
Meanwhile, ambulances and police cars rushed to the scene, and people in surrounding houses were warned not to venture out, as FSB expert teams warily examined the device wearing bullet-proof vests.
A witness at the scene told AFP that a police robot handled the device five times before the expert judged it safe to approach.
However, as soon as the expert crouched near it, the device exploded, blasting him metres away from the spot as the explosion wave smashed into a car parked nearby and shattered windows in neighbouring houses.
Police said the device contained an equivalent of two kilograms of TNT, which they said left an expert almost no chance of survival, even though wearing bullet-proof clothing.
Moscow has been on bomb alert since Saturday, when two women, one of them a Chechen, blew themselves up in a suicide attack at a Moscow rock concert, killing 14 people and injuring some 50 more.
The Russian authorities have blamed the attack on rebels from the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
However, so far the rebels have denied involvement in what proved to be the most brazen attack since 41 rebels stormed a Moscow theatre in October and held 800 people hostage in a dramatic showdown that killed 129 people.
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A witness at the scene told AFP that a police robot handled the device five times before the expert judged it safe to approach.
The poor fellow, being a bomb defuser must be among the worst of jobs.
If she didn't have her obligatory 7-8 kids first some other muslim woman will have to take up the slack. Seriously, using women of childbearing age in battle has to be the most stupidly Darwinistic tactic around.
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If she didn't have her obligatory 7-8 kids first some other muslim woman will have to take up the slack. Seriously, using women of childbearing age in battle has to be the most stupidly Darwinistic tactic around.
We aren't told her age, but she is now in Russian custody, which probably isn't too pleasant after the death of the bomb specialist. But the Muslims are doing a very good "job" of out-breeding everyone else. We don't know if this rucksack woman had done her duty, and dropped 7 or 8 hopeless kids before trying to assassinate innocent people at a restuarant. We can hope she is barren and that's why they sent her. We can also hope and trust in the Darwinian stupidity of these primitive Muslims.
The joke we used to tell is that it's a great job. If you screw up, no one chews you out. (I worked fire/rescue, so we can make those jokes)
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