This is a rerun from 7/10. It adds some detail, so I'll leave it in...
A bomb exploded Thursday on 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Ulitsa in the city center, killing an FSB sapper trying to defuse it, in an attack the Interior Ministry linked to the recent double suicide bombings and said was organized by a terrorist ring training female suicide bombers. The Basmanny district court authorized the arrest late Thursday of a Chechen woman detained in the latest attack. She was identified as Zarema Muzhikhoyeva, a 22-year-old ethnic Ingush from the Chechen village of Assinovskaya.
Must be a disappointed sui-slut, getting only one for her pains...
Muzhikhoyeva tried to enter the upscale Imbir restaurant just after 11 p.m. Wednesday when security guards stopped her and called the police. Their suspicions were aroused because she was carrying a black sports bag and acting in an agitated manner.
| "Hey, lady! What're you so worked up about?... Say! Do you smell something burning?" |
Police officers arrived at the scene minutes later and asked Muzhikhoyeva for her passport. But she refused and threatened to detonate a bomb, which she said was in her bag.
| "Back off, coppers, or we all go 'boom!'" |
"We said, ’Let’s carefully take a look at what is in your bag,’ looked inside and saw wires and some kind of button," police sergeant Mikhail Galtsev said on Rossia television.
| Actually, he said, "Gimme dat bag, you moustachioed bitch!" But that's a family teevee station... |
Muzhikhoyeva then tried to detonate the bomb, but the officers managed to handcuff her first.
After a remote-controlled robot made several failed attempts to defuse it, the FSB called in one of its best sappers, Georgy Trofimov. The 29-year-old major had defused bombs at the Dubrovka theater after the hostage crisis in October and had disarmed the partially exploded bomb worn by the first suicide bomber Saturday.
| Trofimov had guts, you've got to give him that... |
Trofimov, wearing a bulky protective suit, approached the bag and started to pick it up. At that moment, the explosives went off in a burst of smoke and sparks, throwing him back several meters and killing him instantly.
This was very sad... stills from the live TV are on the Moscow Times site. They lost a good man, there.
| He was worth a hell of a lot more than the woman who was arrested, or the malignity that trained her. |
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