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| Six die in Moscow suicide blast | ||
| 2003-12-09 | ||
| A suspected suicide bombing near Red Square in Moscow has left six people dead and wounded several others. The blast happened on a busy street only a few hundred metres from the Kremlin in the heart of the city. The attack may have been aimed at government buildings, two days after Mr Putin’s supporters won legislative elections. Yeah, those wins were a big surprise. The Moscow bomb went off shortly before 1100 local time (0800 GMT) outside the National Hotel, yards from the capital’s main shopping street, Tverskaya Street. Thirteen people were reportedly wounded. A Mercedes sedan was destroyed in the explosion, but it is unclear whether the explosion was a car bomb. Pictures show car is mostly intact, I’d say a bomb vest went off in the car. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov described the attack as a botched attack by at least one, but probably two, women suicide bombers. Chechen women, again. The bomber or bombers had earlier asked a passer-by the way to the State Duma - the lower house of parliament, he said. "Excuse me, where is the infidel oppressor Duma?" "Go down to the corner and take a right, you can’t miss it" "Evidently, the bomb went off by accident," he was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. The National Hotel was not the place where the suicide bombers had planned to stage the explosion." Police spokesman Yevgeny Gildeyev said police investigators were becoming increasingly persuaded the blast was related to terrorism, rather than to a business dispute, AP said. "Business disputes we settle with pistols, at night, at close range. It’s a old Russian custom." The Federal Security Service (FSB) has also said it considers the bombing a terrorist act, according to Russian agencies. A Reuters correspondent reports seeing the severed head of a woman lying on the pavement next to a briefcase, as well as flesh on the snowy pavements. Television pictures also showed a body lying outside the hotel, behind a destroyed car. Just like here, if it bleeds, it leads. Police cordoned off the area and brought in a bomb disposal robot to locate undetonated explosives reportedly found on one body at the scene. Bomb disposal experts then carried out two controlled explosions, one on a handbag apparently suspected of containing explosives. Sounds like they got lucky, one of the female boomers had a premature climax. More, from al-Jizz... Moscow bomb 'targeted parliament' "My car was covered with chunks of human flesh. There were two girls covered in blood and human flesh who were crawling through the snow"A bomber has killed six people and wounded 13 in a Moscow attack which authorities say may have targeted the Russian parliament. Police said they suspected Tuesday's blast was set off by at least one female bomber who wore a belt packed with explosives and ballbearings. Her blown-off head was discovered lying on a busy pavement on Moscow's Mokhovaya street facing the Kremlin.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 Sounds funny now--but it won't be if it happens in Rock Centre during the Today show |
| Posted by: NotMikeMoore 2003-12-9 10:20:30 PM |
| #1 Ah, the old exploding handbag trick. Maxwell Smart, call your office... |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-12-9 1:10:40 PM |