Tempest Storm
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Seems that Russia just had their own 9/11
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europ...rash/index.html
A Chechen woman had boarded one of the flights with a ticket bought just hours before taking off. She is also the only passenger that no family members have come forward to inquire about.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,130302,00.html
"MOSCOW — One of two Russian airliners that crashed nearly simultaneously was brought down by a terrorist act, officials said Friday, after finding traces of explosives in the plane's wreckage. An Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for the attack in a Web statement".
"I condemn in the strongest possible terms the apparent act of barbaric terrorism ... resulting in the crash of two Russian passenger aircraft, and the senseless loss of innocent lives," NATO (search) Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, said Friday.
Hexogen, the explosive found in the Tu-154, is the material that Russian officials said was used in the 1999 apartment bombings that killed some 300 people in Russia, an attack blamed on Chechen separatists.
A Web site connected to Islamic militants published a statement on Friday — signed the "Islambouli Brigades" — claiming responsibility for the crashes. The statement's authenticity could not immediately be confirmed.
The statement said five "mujahedeen" — holy fighters — were aboard each plane. It said the two planes were downed as part of a series of operations "to extend support and victory to our Muslim brothers in Chechnya and other Muslim areas which suffer from Russian faithlessness."
So it seems that though this was a terrorist attack, it wasn't commited by the Chechens. I wonder now if Russia will be a little more supportive of the US's anti-terrorist policies.
Now I wonder how long it'll take our resident Russian to see this.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europ...rash/index.html
A Chechen woman had boarded one of the flights with a ticket bought just hours before taking off. She is also the only passenger that no family members have come forward to inquire about.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,130302,00.html
"MOSCOW — One of two Russian airliners that crashed nearly simultaneously was brought down by a terrorist act, officials said Friday, after finding traces of explosives in the plane's wreckage. An Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for the attack in a Web statement".
"I condemn in the strongest possible terms the apparent act of barbaric terrorism ... resulting in the crash of two Russian passenger aircraft, and the senseless loss of innocent lives," NATO (search) Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, said Friday.
Hexogen, the explosive found in the Tu-154, is the material that Russian officials said was used in the 1999 apartment bombings that killed some 300 people in Russia, an attack blamed on Chechen separatists.
A Web site connected to Islamic militants published a statement on Friday — signed the "Islambouli Brigades" — claiming responsibility for the crashes. The statement's authenticity could not immediately be confirmed.
The statement said five "mujahedeen" — holy fighters — were aboard each plane. It said the two planes were downed as part of a series of operations "to extend support and victory to our Muslim brothers in Chechnya and other Muslim areas which suffer from Russian faithlessness."
So it seems that though this was a terrorist attack, it wasn't commited by the Chechens. I wonder now if Russia will be a little more supportive of the US's anti-terrorist policies.
Now I wonder how long it'll take our resident Russian to see this.
