Men Hold Moscow Audience Hostage [Reports of 1000 Hostages]

AP News ^ | OCTOBER 23, 14:03 ET

[McGruff]

MOSCOW (AP) — Armed men entered a Moscow theater Wednesday and took the audience hostage, the Federal Security Service said.

The theater was holding a performance of the musical Nord-Ost, one of the Russian capital's most popular productions.

The Interfax news agency said one of its reporters was inside the theater at the time of the raid. She told them in a telephone call that the men had fired into the air and were preventing the audience from leaving, the agency said.

Police units were on their way to the scene.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

It was only a matter of time before something like this happened. So, will Russia publicly join us in the war on islamic wacko's? Maybe have a nuclear "accident" in the southern region ala Cheycnea?

[steveegg]

Things seem to be in a holding pattern. CNN's back to having McShame on, PMSNBC has more sniper news (both went to Moscow), FoxNews is all-sniper, all-the-time.

[Travis McGee]

Bingo.

[Angelus Errare]

I figure that they're going to wait until the whole place is rigged to blow and then cut loose with everything they've got before the Russians move in.

From what I understand, blowing up a building isn't all that a hard a thing to do, plus they'd take everyone out with them.

It'd be the Russian equivalent of 9/11.

Just the kind of message that Barayev and Co. want to send to Putin.

[laconic]

No, that would have them sink to their remarkably lowlife level and is not something that a civilized society should even consider. Instead, they should take the top Chechen mobsters in Moscow and put them inside as counter-hostages. That might work.

[Bon mots]

allowed members of the audience to make phone calls and children to be released.

They are not Palestinians. Remember the airport attack in Rome? They aimed for children first because they knew that adults would never abandone screaming bloody children. Then they could go back and kill more.

Islam is peace.

[Lucas1]

CNN has been showing live coverage from Moscow..off and on. They are breaking in every so often. They have been showing pictures...via a copter perhaps? With a voice over of a reporter...on a phone?

[JoeMomma]

Ahh ... the liberal utopia. /sarcasm

Seriously, my prayers go out for those innocent. If terrorists want to keep other countries from joining the US War on Terror, they're going about it the wrong way.

Expect Chechnya to become a parking lot soon. Putin won't put up with this ...

[Wordsmith]

This is potentially a russian 9/11

Yes, it is. And if, God forbid, this ends in catastrophic death I pray that the outpouring of support in the US for the Russians is as massive as their post-9/11 outpouring of support was for us.

[nicmarlo]

Add RUSH, he's not saying anything about it either.

[Travis McGee]

That won't work either, radical Muslims will consider Chechen mobsters to be scum too.

They don't value their own lives, nor anyone elses.

We have to wipe them out.

[Tolik]

Thanks for keeping all informed.

Looks like good source: http://www.gazeta.ru/2002/10/23/box_2410.shtml#209963

gtg

[SerpentDove]

Mentioned on FOXNEWS.COM

[steveegg]

Over here....

[txhurl]

That's right. Drop them right onto the roof, bound but not gagged.

[Travis McGee]

Think of Bali: the explosions killed a few, the fires killed the rest.... horribly.

[William McKinley]

That's because Rush has been off the air for 40 minutes now.

[American72]

Rush is over. He comes on live from Noon-3pm. You must be hearing a rebroadcast.

[NormsRevenge]

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[laconic]

Actually, I suspect there may not be any Chechen mobsters left in Moscow if this plays out tragically.