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.

[Diogenesis]

Moscow - 30 Chechen terrorists, men and women.

[nicmarlo]

Thanks for your post.....FOX is basically treating this as a big nothing and not worth more than a splash of info comes across once every blue moon. It's been all sniper coverage, sniper psychoanalysis, sniper "is most likely to be" speculations. This is destestable.....IMO.

[pitinkie]

I have 5 on my car!!!

[Skooz]

Agreed. Their inattention to this huge story and obessession with the sniper speculate-a-thon is unbelievable.

[CobaltBlue]

>>I don't like walking around with the growing dread that the only way my kids will grow up in a world fit for living in is to remove 1.3 Billion persons from it.

I also don't like walking around in a nation of people telling me to line up and drink the Kool Aid like they are because its the only way and any other choice is just unthinkable.<<

They are not all like that. Daniel Pipes (a pro-Israel Jew who specializs in Middle East studies) estimates that perhaps 10%-15% of Muslims are Islamists.
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/79

We aren't in a war with Islam, we are in a war with Islamism.

[Slip18]

Same for me. And I've been watching the news all day for anything on this. It sounds as if there are 600 to 700 innocent persons inside that theatre.

Thanks, Smogger.

[Slip18]

Dang, you're good, Dio! Thanks for the photos.

[Smogger]

It is renovated by 24.10.2002 into 03:33:46
Version for the press/printing

To the building of "northeast" moves the column of the empty buses

To the building of "northeast" moves the column of the empty buses The column of empty buses moves to the side of theatrical center "northeast", reports correspondent Lenty.Ru from the place of events.

Previously RIA of "news" reported that in the region of the metro proletarian are located several ten buses for the possible evacuation of hostages of the building of theatrical center on Dubrovke.

Meanwhile from the nearest hospital drove off the bus, in which were located approximately 25 people.Agencies assumed that these were the freed hostages.Confirmation voperativnom staff this information did not find.Only it was more lately explained that the located in the bus people - patient of the hospital, arranged/located not far from the seized building.Bus accompanies the automobile of "first aid/ambulance".

[txhurl]

The only reason I could see for it not to be covered is not to alarm world financial markets that the capitols of US & Russia are simultaneously undergoing terrorist hostage situations.

What other reason could it be? That it's a boring story? That it's pre-determined to end in love & peace? What?

[PoisedWoman]

United Press International (UPI) story here http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021023-041440-3519r is one source of "Muslims were released." The orginal BBC report said so, many other media reported it as well. As the day goes on, PC editors are getting their slimey paws on this story and deleting that fact. But believe it, it's true.

[Smogger]

[livius]

Thanks for some great pix - that we won't see on US television.

BTW, regarding the DC sniper,the Feds have issued summonses all over the country and they're digging up a backyard in Washington State right now.

Too strange.

[BurbankKarl]

http://www.kavkaz.org/russ/

the girl in our office was reading this site, and said that the building is rigged, that the Chechen Mujhadheen launched this operations expecting to die. She said there were 40 women, with 10 Chechen soldiers.

If anyone else can translate Russian, it seems to be being updated. Our worker is from Lithuania, so she had trouble with some words.

[alexandria]

FYI: http://mprofaca.cro.net/mainmenu.html
Type Russia into search box and get near instant updates to situation.

[xrp]

IF the hostages are killed by the terrorists, I fully expect GWBush to order American flags lowered to half staff out of respect for the Russians. They did it for us. We're together on this, let's start acting that way.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Bump 914

[Aquinasfan]

Agreed. Their inattention to this huge story and obessession with the sniper speculate-a-thon is unbelievable.

Apalling.

[xJones]

A noted historian said in 1950 that the most important fact of the first half of the 20th century was that the United States spoke English. He said the most important fact of the second half of the 20th century would be that the Russians are white.

Which historian was that, please, I'd like to read more.

[livius]

Thanks! MarMema, is your Russian faster than mine? I'm a translator - of Romance languages - but I also used to be fluent in Russian. However, it's at least 15 years since I've translated anything from it.

[ET(end tyranny)]

What I'm wondering is why the reporting has been so little from the cable outlets. Do they not have reporters assigned to Moscow? Cameras?

Certainly they can get the same info we at FR can?

Maybe Geraldo is on his way to Moscow as we speak? Isn't he the war correspondent? lol