http://www.wtop.com/index.php?nid=105&sid=224135
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Emergency workers search the wreckage of Tu-154 plane at the crash site near Gluboky in the Rostov region some 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) south of Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2004. The recorders extracted from the wreckage of two planes that crashed nearly simultaneously have not revealed reliable information on the disasters' causes, a top Russian official was quoted as saying Thursday. (AP Photo/Sergei Venyavsky)
Explosives Found in Russian Jet Wreckage
Updated: Friday, Aug. 27, 2004 - 4:27 AM
MOSCOW (AP) - Traces of explosives have been found in the wreckage of one of two airliners that crashed nearly simultaneously earlier this week, the Federal Security Service said Friday, a day after a top official acknowledged that terrorism was the most likely cause of the crashes.
A duty officer at the agency, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, confirmed reports on Russian news agencies that cited agency spokesman Sergei Ignatchenko as saying that "preliminary analysis indicates it was hexogen.""
"RUSSIAN SECURITY SERVICE FINDS EXPLOSIVES IN PLANE WRECKAGE"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Russia's security service said it found traces of explosives in the wreckage of one of two Russian planes that crashed on Tuesday night, killing 89 people.
Hexogen, known in the U.S. as cyclonite, was found in the debris of the Tu-154 jet that crashed in the southern Rostov region close to the Ukrainian border, said Nikolai Zakharov, a spokesman for the Federal Security Service, or FSB, in remarks on Russia's NTV television.
``The preliminary analysis tells us it was hexogen; we're conducting further analysis,'' Zakharov said. ``We have established a circle of people, possibly linked to a terrorist attack.'' He didn't elaborate. Hexogen has been used in attacks in Russia attributed to separatist rebels from Chechnya."
Last Updated: August 27, 2004 05:50 EDT
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"EXPLOSIVES FOUND IN RUSSIAN JET WRECKAGE"
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-8/109356748066360.xml&storylist=international
ARTICLE SNIPPET:"Hexogen is the explosive that officials said was used in the 1999 apartment bombings that killed some 300 people in Russia and were blamed on Chechen separatists."