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Moscow faces surge of fake bomb calls, prompting evacuations
2017-10-07
Could be jihadis testing systems, could be another amoral idiot savant like that Israeli lad with the brain tumour, doing it for bitcoins from the dark web. Hopefully it will soon be revealed. Filed under War on Terror until evidence says otherwise.
[Ynet] Moscow is grappling with a slew of fake bomb calls that have prompted the evacuation of shopping malls, schools, railway stations and administrative buildings.

The Tass news agency says there were over 100 anonymous bomb warnings in Moscow on Friday. No explosives have been found.

Friday's calls were the latest in a wave of fake bomb threats that have haunted Russia for a month, prompting evacuations of tens of thousands of people and incurring massive economic damages.

Alexander Bortnikov, the director of the Federal Security Service
... the successor to the KGB...
 (FSB), the main KGB successor, said Thursday the agency had tracked down four people suspected of engineering the wave of hoaxes. Bortnikov said the suspects were Russians living abroad who had accomplices inside the country, but he wouldn't identify them or describe their motives.
Update at 8:00 a.m. ET from The Times of Israel:
Moscow on Friday faced over 130 fake bomb calls that prompted the evacuation of some 100,000 people from airports, shopping malls, schools, railway stations and office buildings.

Among those targeted by the bomb calls were all four Moscow airports, five railway stations, 15 shopping malls, several hotels, more than 20 schools and many other venues, the state Tass news agency said.

Bortnikov said the suspects were using internet connections to make the calls, making them hard to identify.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Fakes first to map the reactive response.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-10-07 00:13  

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