Deadly explosions on Moscow Metro system

[Sino-PakFriendship]

Death to Chechenya terrorists!

 

[Aslan]

Death to Chechenya terrorists!

Agreed death to the terrorists, but also death to the russian army for killing the Chechns for decades.

 

[courageneverdies]

Agreed death to the terrorists, but also death to the russian army for killing the Chechns for decades.

Agreed.

Also death to every cause that invokes Terrorism.

KIT Over

 

[Sino-PakFriendship]

Turkey, Al-Qaeda and Chechenya terrorists will be punished.

Let us watch a good film.

 

[riju78]

Russians are observing a day of mourning for 39 people killed in twin suicide bombings on the Moscow Metro.
People have been lighting candles and laying flowers in memory of the victims of Monday's rush-hour attacks.
President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered increased security and suggested anti-terrorism laws could be reformed.
Police are said to be seeking three people seen with the bombers, and officials have blamed Muslim militants from the North Caucasus for the attack.
No group said it had carried out the bombings, but previous attacks in the capital have been carried out by - or blamed on - militants from Chechnya.



Amid widespread media criticism of the security services, Mr Medvedev said he would be looking into the "efficient operation of various bodies which are tasked with investigating crimes of this kind".
Two suspected female suicide bombers detonated bombs packed with pieces of metal at two separate stations on the same line during rush hour on Monday morning.
The affected Metro line had resumed service by Monday evening and passengers were using the trains, although some were clearly still shaken by the day's events.
"It's really terrifying," Vasily Vlastinin, 16, told the Associated Press news agency.
"It's become dangerous to ride the Metro but I'll keep taking the Metro. You have to get to school, to college, to work somehow."
Remembrance
Lighted candles and flowers have been left in memory of the victims of the blast inside the Lubyanka station, where at least 23 people died, and the Park Kultury station, where the second explosion killed at least 12 people.


Millions of commuters are running the gauntlet on board the Moscow Metro fully aware of what happened 24 hours ago. They are doing so on what is an official day of mourning in memory of those killed and injured on Monday.
Although security has now been stepped up on the Metro and, for example, at airports, the big concern is that what happened on Monday was just the start of a new wave of attacks by rebels from the North Caucasus region.
The self-proclaimed leader of the militants has pledged to bring the war to mainland Russia. The question is whether the security forces can now gather sufficient intelligence to prevent any further attacks.
Another four people died in hospital, and officials have warned that the death toll could rise.
The main television channels have changed their schedules, dropping advertising and entertainment programmes.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, visiting the injured at a hospital in Moscow, said law enforcement agencies would "do everything to find and punish the criminals".
Mr Medvedev laid a wreath at the scene of one of the attacks on Monday. He called the plotters "beasts", adding: "We will find and destroy them all."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the Interfax news agency that militants operating on the Afghan-Pakistan border may have helped organise the Moscow attacks.
"We all know very well that clandestine terrorists are very active on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan," he was quoted as saying.

"We know that several attacks have been prepared there, to be carried out not only in Afghanistan, but also in other countries. Sometimes, these journeys go as far as the (Russian) Caucasus."



US President Barack Obama pledged that Washington would "help bring to justice those who undertook this attack" while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called terrorism a "common enemy".
Other foreign ministers from the G8 group of leading industrial nations also condemned the attacks at the start of talks on global security in Ottawa, Canada.

Finger of blame
Police are looking for two women who accompanied the bombers as well as a possible male accomplice, after identifying them and the bombers through surveillance footage, security sources were quoted as saying by Russian media.

MOSCOW METRO ATTACKS

March 2010: Two suicide bombers blow themselves up at Lubyanka station and Park Kultury station, killing 38 people
August 2004: Suicide bomber blows herself up outside Rizhskaya station, killing 10
February 2004: Suicide bombing on Zamoskvoretskaya line, linking main airports, kills 40
August 2000: Bomb in pedestrian tunnel leading to Tverskaya station kills 13
February 2000: Blast injures 20 inside Belorusskaya station
January 1998: Three injured by blast at Tretyakovskaya station
June 1996: Bomb on the Serpukhovskaya line kills four

The head of Russia's intelligence service, the Federal Security Service (FSB), said investigators believed the attacks had been carried out by "terrorist groups related to the North Caucasus".
"Fragments of the bodies of two female suicide bombers were found earlier at the scene of the incident and examinations show that these individuals came from the North Caucasus region," Alexander Bortnikov said.
The co-ordinated attacks were the deadliest in Moscow since February 2004, when 40 people were killed by a bomb on a packed metro train as it approached the Paveletskaya station.
Six months later, a suicide bomber blew herself up outside another station, killing 10 people. Both attacks were blamed on rebels from Chechnya.
Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility for that attack and vowed last month to take the war to Russian cities.
Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov condemned the attacks in Moscow, saying he would assist the Kremlin in hunting down the culprits.
More than 100,000 people have been killed in 15 years of conflict in Chechnya, and low-level insurgencies continue there and in the neighbouring republics of Ingushetia and Dagestan.

BBC News - Russia mourns victims of Moscow Metro suicide bombings

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Brother, Chinese Turks and Pakistan should all be working together.

There should be no hostility or ill feeling amongst eachother. We have good relations with both countries.

I can understand Chinese are upset over Erdogan comments to China during the Uyghur-Han Chinese fighting. But its all in the past brother.

 

[karan.1970]

Agreed.

Also death to every cause that invokes Terrorism.

KIT Over

Till the time terrorism apologists keep making excuses for such acts, we are all condemned to live thru the evil of this scourge and its repercussions. But to each his own..

 

[Moscow]

Agreed death to the terrorists, but also death to the russian army for killing the Chechns for decades.

terrorists and their supporters are killed by armies not civilians
this action is not worth supporting like they did on cnn
shame on CNN ,and THEIR hidden agenda

i took exclusive pictures from the incident posted on my blog 3 of my friends are injured 1 seriously with rest all particle wounds i stay in sportivnaya metro 2 stops from park kulturey metro where the 2 nd bomb blast took place i use the sokolnicheskaya line daily when travelling by metro


FSB will take proper action < anybodys guess what will happen and how many terrorist supporters in dagestan ,cechnya will be wiped off dont mess with russia>

 

[Moscow]

My reference to 'rationality' was from the perspective of the Russian State giving up its 'Genghiz Khan' tactics in subduing the separatist movement in Chechnya.

They should have learned their lesson from Afghanistan. If Russia wants Chechny and Chechens to be part of the Russian Federation, then treating them like humans would be a huge step forward in minimizing support for violent separatists.

opinion of a minority of people does not change the reality the handful of people make news because they have no other work i know many chechens who are tried of these terrorists and want to live a peaceful life and is ashamed of these funded thugs activities
please do not support terrorists in the name of fighters because even other muslim clans in russia like the tatars live in complete harmony and are ever ready to fight for russia

these are chechen thugs funded by parties to undermine russian influence the war is over and people there want peace as do all of us around


i fail to understand when US is attacked then its terrorist when russia gets attacked its freedom fighters
somebody looks to see in the mirror


one more point russia did not attack afganistan it was the soviet so thats incorrect to label russia there and about grozny being a part of russia it already is and chechnya is a russian republic already so no question of "IF"

the russian idea of rationalism is to kill out each and every terrorist in the world with their followers thats is the exactly rational idea to deal with terrorists and separatists

 

[DaRk WaVe]

'Moscow bombers could be linked to AfPak terror network'​

MOSCOW: Plotters of the twin suicide blast at Moscow subway stations that killed several people could have links with the terror network based in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, Russia said on Tuesday.

The deadly blasts in the subway could have been organised with support from abroad, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said.

"I do not rule this out, nothing can be ruled out here," he said.

The minister said that Moscow "is well informed about the so-called no-man's land on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan," where "the terrorist underground has entrenched itself".

"We know that many terrorist attacks - not only in Afghanistan, but in other countries too - are plotted in that area... Sometimes, the trail leads to the Caucasus," he said and urged the global community to coordinate efforts in the fight against international terrorism and its financial sponsors.

Two female suicide bombers attacked the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations of the Sokolnicheskaya subway line during the morning rush hour Monday. The first blast occurred at 8:00 a.m. (0930 IST) and the second about 40 minutes later.

'Moscow bombers could be linked to AfPak terror network' - Europe - World - The Times of India

 

[DaRk WaVe]

Suicide bombers kill at least 38 in Moscow subway​

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who cemented his power in 1999 by launching a war to crush Chechen separatism, broke off a trip to Siberia, declaring "terrorists will be destroyed".

Witnesses described panic at two central Moscow stations after the blasts, with morning commuters falling over each other in dense smoke and dust as they tried to escape the worst attack on the Russian capital in six years.

At least 72 others were injured, many gravely, and officials said the death toll could rise. Russia's top security official said the bombs were filled with bolts and iron rods.

No group immediately claimed responsibility, but Federal Security Service (FSB) chief Alexander Bortnikov said those responsible had links to the North Caucasus, a heavily Muslim region plagued by insurgency whose leaders have threatened to attack cities and energy pipelines elsewhere in Russia.

"A crime that is terrible in its consequences and heinous in its manner has been committed," Putin told emergency officials in a video call.

"I am confident that law enforcement bodies will spare no effort to track down and punish the criminals. Terrorists will be destroyed."

The Kremlin had declared victory in its battle with Chechen separatists who fought two wars with Moscow. But violence has intensified over the past year in the neighboring republics of Dagestan and Ingushetia, where Islamist militancy overlaps with clan rivalries, criminal gangs and widespread poverty.

The chief of the FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said: "Body parts belonging to two female suicide bombers were found ... and according to initial data, these persons are linked to the North Caucasus."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said militants on the Afghan-Pakistan border may have helped organize the attacks.

Some Russian officials have said North Caucasus insurgents have ties to al Qaeda whose leaders are thought to be in hiding along the Pakistan border, but many analysts dispute any link.

Asked if there could have been any foreign involvement in Monday's attacks, Lavrov did not mention any group by name, but Interfax quoted him as replying: "I do not exclude that."

Monday's metro attacks are likely to turn the North Caucasus into a major political issue. Critics said the attacks demonstrated the failure of Kremlin policy in Chechnya, where human rights groups accuse Russian forces of brutality.

"They are simply beasts," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said of the bombers after laying a bouquet of red roses on the platform of one of the metro stations.

"We will find and destroy them all," he said.

The first blast tore through a metro train just before 8 a.m. as it stood at the Lubyanka station, close to the headquarters of the FSB. It killed at least 23 people.

A second blast, less than 40 minutes later in a train waiting at the Park Kultury metro station, opposite Gorky Park, killed 12 more people, emergencies ministry officials said. Another three people died in hospital.

Reuters photographers saw body bags being brought out of both stations. Some of the wounded were airlifted to hospitals in helicopters and central Moscow was brought to a standstill as police closed off major roads.

"Everyone was screaming," said Valentin Popov, 19, a student who was on a train at the Park Kultury station. "There was a stampede at the doors. I saw one woman holding a child and pleading with people to let her through, but it was impossible."

European Union leaders condemned the bombings and U.S. President Barack Obama called the Kremlin to offer condolences.

"President Obama said that the United States was ready to cooperate with Russia to help bring to justice those who undertook this attack," the White House said in a statement.

NO COMPROMISE

The Russian rouble fell sharply on the bombings, but later regained ground, with traders arguing the bombs were unlikely to undermine the strength of the currency.

"The Russian stock market is more than stable, the rouble is stable," said Anatoly Darakov, head of Russian equity trading at Citi in Moscow. "It's not the first blast in Moscow."

Eye witnesses spoke of panic after the blasts, which ripped through stations just a few kilometers (miles) from the Kremlin.

Surveillance camera footage posted on the Internet showed several motionless bodies lying on the floor or slumped against the wall in Lubyanka station lobby and emergency workers crouched over victims, trying to treat them.

Putin donned a white doctor's coat to visit some of the 72 people still hospitalized in Moscow. The health ministry said five people were in a serious condition.

The current death toll makes it the worst attack on Moscow since February 2004, when a suicide bombing killed 41 people and wounded more than 100 on a metro train.

Chechen rebels were blamed for that attack. Rebel leader Doku Umarov, fighting for an Islamic emirate embracing the whole region, vowed last month to take the war to Russian cities.

"Blood will no longer be limited to our (Caucasus) cities and towns. The war is coming to their cities," the Chechen rebel leader said in an interview on an Islamist website.

Jonathan Eyal, of London's Royal United Services Institute, saw a personal challenge to Putin, who remains the chief power in the land.

"This is a direct affront to Vladimir Putin, whose entire rise to power was built on his pledge to crush the enemies of Russia ... It's an affront to his muscular image," Eyal said.

The Chechen rebellion began in the 1990s as a largely ethnic nationalist movement, fired by a sense of injustice over the 1940s transportation of Chechens to Central Asia, with enormous loss of life, by dictator Josef Stalin. Largely since the second war, Russian officials say, Islamic militants from outside Russia have joined the campaign, lending it a new intensity.

(Additional reporting by Ludmilla Danilova, Dmitry Solovyov, Darya Korsunskaya and Conor Sweeney and Conor Humphries; Writing by Guy Faulconbridge and Steve Gutterman; Editing by Ralph Boulton and Dominic Evans)

Suicide bombers kill at least 38 in Moscow subway | Reuters

 

[Moscow]

Terrorists will be 'dragged out from the sewers' - Putin

Finding the organizers of the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro is a matter of honor for the security agencies, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said during questions at a conference on transport security on Tuesday.

take your pick what will happen because of 2 silly stupid women , people who has ever lived in russia will understand what i am saying ,putin seems to have given the FSB a free say
good for those terrorist supporters let them enjoy their last few hours

 

[PlanetWarrior]

Now Pakistan will have to host Blackwater and KGB personel

Pity about the dead. Hope that the animals who did this rot in hell

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Russia should avoid the habits of other certain countries who tend to get overly emotional after such incident.

I do hopre the culprits of this cowardly attack are caught and the families of the dead & wounded get justice

but a police-state policy towards Chechens and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups will surely only fuel more hatred and suspicion.

It would also be prudent to mention that these are purely homegrown groups. ''AfPak" has little relevance here; Russians shouldnt fall for standard indian tactics

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Now Pakistan will have to host Blackwater and KGB personel

Pity about the dead. Hope that the animals who did this rot in hell

and in exchange, we'll host ISI in Amritsar and Pune.


by the way, KGB has been dead since the fall of the soviet empire. No organization under this name exists.