"Reports say the suicide bomber was located among a crowd at the international arrivals gate."
"Medvedev orders to step up security after deadly blast at Moscow airport," from RIA Novosti, January 24:
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered on Monday that security be increased at all of the country's airports and transportation hubs after a suicide bombing killed at least 31 people at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport.
At least another 130 people were injured in the blast that ripped through the airport's international arrivals hall at 4:32 p.m. Moscow time.
"It is necessary to step up security at all airports, railway stations and transportations hubs," Medvedev said at an emergency meeting. "I order you, Transport Minister Igor Levitin together with Interior Minister [Rashid Nurgaliyev] to employ the relevant procedures in cooperation with the Federal Security Service."
Reports say the suicide bomber was located among a crowd at the international arrivals gate.
No mention of Muslims in this report, must be those bloody Amish again!
Well, Golly, just what IS it that drives these 'Chechnyan rebels' to commit these atrocities?
Devout anti-communists, perhaps?
Hmm. I stumped.
I just heard this story covered on FOXNews. While they didn't actually say "Muslims", they did note that this atrocity was likely carried out by Chechen rebels, or perhaps by Al-Qaida—so they didn't ignore Jihad entirely.
I just read up on Chechnyan Rebels and to my surprise they are Islamists...... I am shocked, I thought is was the Mormans or Jehovah's Witnesses again....
I'm very curious to see how Russia's going to deal with its Islamic problems. I do not want to see any human rights' violations, but the general lack of political correctness in the country and the government structure will likely allow them to introduce policies we wouldn't presently be able to pass in the US. We might be able to watch Russia, take notes on what works and what doesn't, what's good and what's bad, and develop our own policies down the road.
The MSM completely censored all mention of 'Muslims' or 'Islam' at the Beslan child-rape and massacre: http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/beslan-child-rape-torture-enforced.html
Yup! Surprize, surprize! The stench of backward barbaric islam is all over the North Caucasus, and Chechens. See this backgrounder on Council on Forign Relations.:
http://www.cfr.org/publication/9181/chechen_terrorism_russia_chechnya_separatist.html
quite an iformative update article.
"Reports say the suicide bomber was located among a crowd at the international arrivals gate."
The Guardian is reporting that the last flight to arrive before the explosion was from London.
Might be nothing, but given the rise of radical islam in the both">http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/205996.php">both of the bombers was on that flight.
Sorry, last paragraph in my last comment messed up. Should read:
Might be nothing, but given the rise of radical islam in the uk, it wouldn't be surprising if one or both of the bombers was on that flight.
Also a recent informative book review on the gathering storm in Thailand, and background, (Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand by Duncan McCargo) of rising islam taking place their:
http://www.cfr.org/publication/21413/tearing_apart_the_land.html
The author appears to be largely naive and ignorant of the true nature of islam, but the details and analysis of the breakdown in Thailand, and government missteps, appears to be a worthy, though sad read, to see the decline, after incursions, of an earlier enjoyable tourist destination, at the least. The islamist were waiting to take advantage, with taqya, of a troubled government reaction.
Hey. If the "human rights violations" are against Muslims then I am , sadly, all for it!
Maybe the Russian Tiger/ Bear/whatever will awake and give a lead to the still sleeping West. Hope so.
this paybacks for "Medvedev" and his russian thugs for not being more clear about the palis and Israel last weekend when he visited Ramallah.
There is no mention in the story of anyone taking credit for the bombing. Anyone want to place a bet on which of the following will turn out to be the case?
(A) The name is Muhammad, Ahmed, or some other Qur'anic name, and that he/she/it shouted "Allahu Akbar" just before the detonation.
(B) The name is David, Michael, or some Biblical name, and that he shouted "Praise the Lord" just before the detonation.
"It is necessary to step up security..."
And what happens when the security points become the choice target where travelers are to be killed? Reactive security seldom works.
Stalin had his own methods for dealing with the Chechens. Call him what you will, he didn't hide in the shadows about whether to call them terrorists or rebels, he just shipped the whole population to Siberia.
"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered on Monday that security be increased at all of the country's airports and transportation hubs after a suicide bombing killed at least 31 people at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport."
Why bother? They all ready blew up your airport, and sudenly you are going to increase security!?! It seems to me that the damage is already done.
Ive got an idea. How about Russia doing to Islam what they do to Christians. Make it illigal. Problem solved... Sort of.
In March, 2010, just 10 months ago, this bit on who did what to the Russian transport, also the same in November 2009, twice to the Nevsky Express:
Islamist Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility for the bombing; he had also claimed responsibility for the derailment of the Nevsky Express.
He is but the latest emergent, in a line of Arab islamists,working in North Caucasus.
Let's see if he is again the one, or a new one emerging.
Forgot the attribution of previous entry, it is again from http://www.cfr.org/publication/9181/chechen_terrorism_russia_chechnya_separatist.html
Twitter posts from supposed eyewitnesses say that the perp was....
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"A greeter at the Asian Cafe. The bomb was not in checked luggage."
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This means that the "extremist" was particularly sneaky.
I'm betting 1000 dollars with Robert Spencer that this particular murderer was a Protestant Evangelical.
Did anyone catch this?
"Interior Minister [Rashid Nurgaliyev] to employ the relevant procedures in cooperation with the Federal Security Service."
RASHID? A mudslime in charge of protecting transportation and the country?
The Russians are as clueless as we are . . .