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| 'Female suicide bomber in Moscow airport blast' |
| 2011-01-25 |
| MOSCOW airport blast may have involved a female from Russia's predominantly Muslim North Caucasus, a security source says. "The explosion occurred the moment the presumed female suicide bomber opened her bag," the state-run news agency RIA Novosti quoted the unnamed security official as saying. "The terrorist was accompanied by a man. He was standing beside her and (the blast) tore off his head." Russian investigators said that they had found a head of "Arab appearance" that was initially presumed to have belonged to the suicide bomber. The unnamed security source said the blast bore the hallmarks of an attack carried out by North Caucasus militants. "This act of terror followed the classic scheme used by terrorists who come from the North Caucasus," the security official said. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 OK, lets take a deep breath. There is a big difference between a "head of arab appearance" and a Chechen or Daghestani. I think it is interesting that was the EXACT same claim in the subway bomobing last year. magically a head was found intact. I questioned this on the Rant last time and i question it here. 7 kilos of explosives on someones body, i think that basically tears up the average head beyond recognition no matter who has the vest on. Get off the N. Caucusus bandwagon, you foolishly play into the Russians hands. Russians want the west to include Chechens and N. Caucasians into the terror war because it legitimizes violent Russian oppression of the N. Caucusus. The west really messed up when they let Russia decimiate Chechnya, this forced anti-Russin Chechens into the Islamist radicals hands because they were strangeld and out of money to fight the Russians. Read some history sometime. |
| Posted by: jefe101 2011-01-25 23:11 |
| #5 Do Muslims have any guarantee of salvation? Muslims have no guarantee of being saved. They believe that all their works will be accounted for and that on Judgment Day, if your bad works outweigh your good works, you are going to go to hell. But if your good works outweigh your bad works, you'll probably go to heaven. (Since God is all-powerful, they concede that He may do with you as He pleases, even if you have been very righteous. They hope He won't be having a “bad day” at Judgment.) A third possibility is that you could go to hell and burn your sins off for a while and then be allowed into heaven. The only way Muslims can be guaranteed to go to heaven is through “jihad.” Although it is often translated “holy war,” “jihad” literally means "exerting force for God." One could be in “jihad” by writing a book about Islam, or by sharing his faith to bring others to Islam, or by physically fighting for the cause of Islam. If a Muslim dies in “jihad,” he is guaranteed to go to heaven. |
| Posted by: Gralet Bonaparte6143 2011-01-25 16:28 |
| #4 Now you know why radical muzzies want to keep muzzie women in burkas from being searched in any way. |
| Posted by: Mikey Hunt 2011-01-25 15:47 |
| #3 I don't think I have ever seen baggage security checks to enter the arrivals area post customs/immigration. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2011-01-25 15:22 |
| #2 This comment from one of Wired's readers is quite chilling: I have traveled quite a bit from DMD — though not for quite some time. [...] Reports out of Moscow that I have seen indicate that the scanners and metal detectors were just turned off that day, with no one manning them. This is pretty common in Russian airports — if there’s no one to work the security at the front gate [...] they just don’t scan people. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2011-01-25 12:51 |
| #1 Starting to get answers to the questions Skidmark asked last night in the bomb thread: Wired Magazine asks, "Did Moscow's Airport Bombers Dodge Security Checks?", raising the point that a crowd will always gather outside the security perimeter, and that's where terrorists will hit. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-01-25 12:27 |