[Route66]

Well, since we're on hold again...It would be nice if we would get some more coverage of the Moscow hostage situation during this lull in the flow of info from the shooter task force.

[HairOfTheDog]

This is more bizaare. I don't think they CAN cover the Moscow situation. They don't know how to cover anything where there aren't live cams any more.

[snippy_about_it]

Latest I could find on Moscow. Chilling;


"The terrorists are demanding one thing - the end to the war in Chechnya," Gribakin said.

Russian news reports said the armed men and women were laying land mines inside the theater and had explosives strapped to their bodies which they threatened to blow up if Russian security forces stormed the building.

A woman who made her way out of the theater told a television interviewer the men wore camouflage as they took the stage, fired into the air and said: "Don't you understand what's going on? We are Chechens."

News reports said the hostage-takers arrived in jeep-like vehicles just as the second act of the play was about to begin. When police and security forces surrounded the theater, the attackers opened fired and threw a grenade. One of the hostages, a doctor, was treating a hostage-taker who was wounded.