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To: callmejoe

I read it, quite creepy. I don't have the oldier, similar ones handy, don't even remember when they came out. I know they must be on one of the past TM threads, somewhere.


4,037 posted on 08/24/2004 6:09:26 PM PDT by nwctwx
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To: nwctwx

Recent terror-related explosions in Russia

The Associated Press
8/24/04 7:37 PM

MOSCOW (AP) -- A list of terror-related explosions in Russia since December 2002:

2004:

-- May 9: A bomb rips through a stadium in the Chechen capital, Grozny, during a Victory Day ceremony, killing provincial President Akhmad Kadyrov, the Kremlin's point man for efforts to control separatist violence in the war-wracked region. As many as 24 people are killed. A Chechen warlord claimed responsibility.

-- Feb. 6: Explosion rips through a subway car in the Moscow metro during rush hour, killing 41 people. Authorities suspect a terrorist attack.

2003:

--Dec. 9: Female suicide bomber blows herself up outside Moscow's National Hotel, across from the Kremlin and Red Square, killing five bystanders.

-- Dec. 5: Suicide bombing on commuter train in southern Russia kills 44 people. President Vladimir Putin condemns attack as bid to destabilize the country two days before parliamentary elections.

-- Sept. 16: Two suicide bombers drive a truck laden with explosives into a government security services building near Chechnya, killing three people and injuring 25.

-- Aug. 1: Suicide bomber rams truck filled with explosives into a military hospital near Chechnya, killing 50 people, including Russian troops wounded in Chechnya.

-- July 10: Russian security agent dies in Moscow while trying to defuse a bomb a woman had tried to carry into a cafe on central Moscow's main street.

-- July 5: Double suicide bombing at a Moscow rock concert kills the female attackers and 15 other people.

-- June 5: Female suicide attacker detonates bomb near a bus carrying soldiers and civilians to a military airfield in Mozdok, a major staging point for Russian troops in Chechnya, killing at least 16 people.

-- May 14: Woman blows up explosives strapped to her waist in crowd of thousands of Muslim pilgrims, killing at least 18 people in an apparent attempt on the life of Chechnya's Moscow-backed chief administrator, Akhmad Kadyrov, now the region's president.

-- May 12: Suicide truck-bomb attack kills at least 60 at a government compound in northern Chechnya.

-- April 3: Passenger bus hits remote-controlled land mine in the Chechen capital, killing at least 8.

2002:

-- Dec. 27: Suicide truck-bomb attack destroys headquarters of Chechnya's Moscow-backed government, killing 72 people.


4,039 posted on 08/24/2004 6:11:05 PM PDT by freeperfromnj
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