[Wordsmith]

Moscow hostage crisis sounding very bad. As many as 1000 hostages. 20-40 self-proclaimed suicide bomber hostage takers. Claim to have explosive belts and to have mined the building. Will blow it if attacked. Demanding Russian withdrawal from Chechnya, which isn't happening. We may be looking at a lot of dead innocents and dead Russian police and military very shortly. Russia currently in UN Security Council meeting for vote on Iraq measure.

Prayers for our fellow Russian victims of the jihadists.

[TexKat]

Russia currently in UN Security Council meeting for vote on Iraq measure.

Which as of yesterday, they rejected our new porposed resolution on Iraq. Not that I don't feel for the hostages.

[js1138]

Demanding Russian withdrawal from Chechnya,

Since Russia has no history of kneebending, I suspect the answer will be something like "100 of yours for every 1 of ours".

[aristeides]

Those jihadists may have just swung the Russian vote on Iraq in the Security Council.