Suicide Bombings @ Moscow's Metro Stations

OutlawPete

Two Female Suicide Bombers have attacked Moscow's Metro this morning:

Two explosions ripped through the busy Moscow metro on Monday morning during rush hour

Though it has yet to be confirmed, security sources said early indications suggested suicide bombers from the volatile North Caucasus region that includes Chechnya were to blame.

If that is right, it would be the first time since 2004 that they have struck the Moscow metro.

Prosecutors opened a criminal case immediately, saying they would be working on the basis that the explosions were the work of terrorists.

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syklops

My condolences to the people of Russia.

chin_grin

syklops wrote: »

My condolences to the people of Russia.

Just wondering why you thanked the OP post so?

But yeah I second that.

inforfun

According to a Dutch website no 3 has gone off.
Bastards.

syklops

chin_grin wrote: »

Just wondering why you thanked the OP post so?

But yeah I second that.

What?

chin_grin

syklops wrote: »

What?

Rrrright, looking at my post I didn't make much sense (as per usual). I was pondering, seeing that it's such a tragic event why you thanked it. (My macabre mind). And me seconding your response of condolences.

I haven't had any caffeine yet.

DrumSteve

just heard on newstalk.

i like russia so this is a pretty ****ty start to the day.

syklops

inforfun wrote: »

According to a Dutch website no 3 has gone off.
Bastards.

Thats a new technique which they developed in Iraq. A couple of blasts in quick succession to create confusion, the emergency services rush in to aid the injured. Then a 3rd bomb goes off in an attempt to kill many more people and to put the system under more pressure. Its a petty and evil tactic.

Hank_Jones

I seriously wonder how somebody could be convinced to blow themselves up, basically because people are asking them to...

Sick, twisted fcukers.

syklops

The Russian Ministry of the Interior are now refuting claims of a 3rd bomb blast at Station Mira.

Im keeping an eye on Twitter(first time) in case someone tweets the truth.

Hank_Jones

padi89 wrote: »

But didn't you know, they will be welcomed into that special place in the sky and have 50 virgins waiting for them ......

What's with the virgins thing anyway?

Personally, I would want a woman who knew what she was doing.

No stranger than most religious stuff I suppose...

And he had 5 loaves and 2 fishes and turned them into a million loaves and a million fish..

syklops

padi89 wrote: »

But didn't you know, they will be welcomed into that special place in the sky and have 50 virgins waiting for them ......

I dont know if female suicide bombers are promised the same thing. If they do get virgins I hope all fifty are hung like gerbils and only last a minute.

padi89

syklops wrote: »

I dont know if female suicide bombers are promised the same thing. If they do get virgins I hope all fifty are hung like gerbils and only last a minute.

Doh!

For females ...... they will be allowed to drive

syklops

In case your interested, this is what Park Kultury Metro Station looks like.

Looks more like a palace to me, not a metro station.

Hank_Jones

syklops wrote: »

In case your interested, this is what Park Kultury Metro Station looks like.

Looks more like a palace to me, not a metro station.

A lot of train stations were built by Stalin during the communist era.
The train was seen as a way of spreading the communist message to the people, which is probably the main reason he pumped money into it.
He got artists to create murals etc in the train stations that gave the message of the communist ideology of the time.

syklops

Hank_Jones wrote: »

A lot of train stations were built by Stalin during the communist era.
The train was seen as a way of spreading the communist message to the people, which is probably the main reason he pumped money into it.
He got artists to create murals etc in the train stations that gave the message of the communist ideology of the time.

Shame we never got communism. Then we might have a decent transport system. Maybe a decent health service too. Any ex-communist country I have been to the health care made irelands look medieval.

Fuhrer

Hank_Jones wrote: »

I seriously wonder how somebody could be convinced to blow themselves up, basically because people are asking them to...

Sick, twisted fcukers.

Like the Shahidkas? Apprently most of them are sold or shanghaied into service and have a bomb strapped to them which is detonated remotely.

Canis Lupus

padi89 wrote: »

But didn't you know, they will be welcomed into that special place in the sky and have 50 virgins waiting for them ......

It's most likely Chechens so this doesn't really apply.

Nodin

syklops wrote: »

Thats a new technique which they developed in Iraq. A couple of blasts in quick succession to create confusion, the emergency services rush in to aid the injured. Then a 3rd bomb goes off in an attempt to kill many more people and to put the system under more pressure. Its a petty and evil tactic.

Nothing new about it.

Nodin

Hank_Jones wrote: »

I seriously wonder how somebody could be convinced to blow themselves up, basically because people are asking them to...

Sick, twisted fcukers.

...that, and the remarkably brutal regime they've had under the Russians for the last decade and a half or so. They dissappear about one a day, so its said, which - out of a population of Chechenya thats only around a million - is a fair number. As the Russians have become more extreme, so have they. Enter the usual "Jihadist" headers to take advantage and lend "support".....

Glenster

syklops wrote: »

Thats a new technique which they developed in Iraq. A couple of blasts in quick succession to create confusion, the emergency services rush in to aid the injured. Then a 3rd bomb goes off in an attempt to kill many more people and to put the system under more pressure. Its a petty and evil tactic.

A tactic that was debuted in 'The Kingdom' starring Jamie Foxx

AnonoBoy

Glenster wrote: »

A tactic that was debuted in 'The Kingdom' starring Jamie Foxx

Or in the Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland which I believe Jamie Foxx had no part in.

pickarooney

Back then he was known as the Border Foxx.

SEPT 23 1989

These would be the same animals who murdered 300 in Beslan,I hope the Russian army responds appropriately

Glenster

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

These would be the same animals who murdered 300 in Beslan,I hope the Russian army responds appropriately

They're famous for proportionate responses.

old hippy

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

These would be the same animals who murdered 300 in Beslan,I hope the Russian army responds appropriately

Er, most of the victims of that massacre died precisely because of Russian strong arm tactics.

My condolences to the victims of Russian occupation of Chechnya.

Xluna

syklops wrote: »

Thats a new technique which they developed in Iraq. A couple of blasts in quick succession to create confusion, the emergency services rush in to aid the injured. Then a 3rd bomb goes off in an attempt to kill many more people and to put the system under more pressure. Its a petty and evil tactic.

The more I watch the news and read history the more a misanthropist I become.

poisonated

Thats awful.My cousin is Russian! It looked like a really beautiful station.

Sisko

They should just give these people their country back ffs. I've no respect for the bombers but Russia can't claim to be the good guys either if they're holding onto someone else's country in the 1st place.

orourkeda

Now I'm no expert on this issue but how difficult is it to effectively combat a well organised and well equipped terrorist organisation.

Who exactly is responsible?

Jim

Without drastically culling the freedoms and rights of your own citizens, practically impossible. Which is kind of the point.

the_syco

AnonoBoy wrote: »

There was more than one warning rang in.

I don't doubt it. Also, I said "claimed" for I don't fully believe either side.

orourkeda wrote: »

Now I'm no expert on this issue but how difficult is it to effectively combat a well organised and well equipped terrorist organisation.

Ask the British how difficult it was combating the IRA?

Sisko wrote: »

They should just give these people their country back ffs. I've no respect for the bombers but Russia can't claim to be the good guys either if they're holding onto someone else's country in the 1st place.

Many years ago, they asked Russia to help defend them. Russia has yet to leave.

Crann na Beatha

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bonerm

the_syco wrote: »

Many years ago, they asked Russia to help defend them. Russia has yet to leave.

Russia, the worlds Goodfellas.

R0ot

I hope someone gets nuked over this. I'm not picky on who.

dlofnep

It read that the women are more than happy to use themselves as human bombs, because Russian soldiers raped the women during the war.

Abrasax

bonerm wrote: »

Russia, the worlds Goodfellas.

Russian pizzas are crap.

Gummy Panda

dlofnep wrote: »

It read that the women are more than happy to use themselves as human bombs, because Russian soldiers raped the women during the war.

It's also that their husbands were probably killed in the conflict. They did something similar in a theatre in Russia before.

Hande hoche!

Firstly R.I.P. to the victims.

old hippy wrote: »

Er, most of the victims of that massacre died precisely because of Russian strong arm tactics.

My condolences to the victims of Russian occupation of Chechnya.

I don't think so considering most of the victims were killed in the gymnasium. The majority of theories as to what happened revolved around poorly rigged explosives set by the hostage takers accidentally detonating or the
hostage takers setting off explosives. Additionally at the time of the blasts one third of the proposed assault force of 400 men were 18 miles to the south practicing at a similar building.I think the Russians performed as best as they could considering the circumstances.

Prof.Badass

Abrasax wrote: »

Russian pizzas are crap.

Have you ever tried a russian pizza or are you just assuming they're crap because they sound crap?

You may not have realised, but this is the internet, this is serious business. If you say "russian pizza is crap" then 100s of people will assume you're telling the truth and then as a result will never try what could have been an amazing russian pizza (maybe even russian pizza could have become the next big thing had it not been for you) :mad:.

Next time think of the consequences of what you say :mad:.

R0ot

Abrasax wrote: »

They did it at Warrenpoint, killing 18 soldiers, the same day Mountbatten was killed.

Well I think England still have the better kill/death ratio by about 20,000/1 .

Now I'm waiting for the 'quit living in the past' and 'that was ages ago' replies to which I ask. How many years does it take for murder to matter less?

I'm in no way defending the tactics of the bombers in moscow and elsewhere but when you put in a corner with no other option then desperate times lead to desperate measures. Without 'terrorism' as it was labelled by England at the time we'd still be under English rule.

Time does not heal all wounds and it innocent lives will always be lost for peace to take hold. For only by the shear(sp?) disgust and contempt for acts of terror will the world waken up to atrocites(sp?) that the 'smaller' nations suffer.

[/turns of phrase]

Abrasax

vinylmesh wrote: »

Have you ever tried a russian pizza or are you just assuming they're crap because they sound crap?

You may not have realised, but this is the internet, this is serious business. If you say "russian pizza is crap" then 100s of people will assume you're telling the truth and then as a result will never try what could have been an amazing russian pizza (maybe even russian pizza could have become the next big thing had it not been for you) :mad:.

Next time think of the consequences of what you say :mad:.

It's true.
I've never tried Russian pizza.
I was just being polemical.
I never once considered the poor souls working in our many Russian pizza joints.

Crann na Beatha

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bonerm

Abrasax wrote: »

It's true.
I've never tried Russian pizza.
I was just being polemical.
I never once considered the poor souls working in our many Russian pizza joints.

Hey! doan worry abowed it.

Abrasax

bonerm wrote: »

Hey! doan worry abowed it.

Talking to noobs. It's like talking to newborns.

DubMedic

the_syco wrote: »

Ask the British how difficult it was combating the IRA?

Why did you have to go there?.

You could have used the Iraqi war example, or even Afghanistan.

But no, you just had to mention our old friend Northern Ireland, and it's lovely history.

This thread is about a suicide bombing in Moscow, which has fcuk all to do with Northern Ireland.

.

R0ot

DubMedic wrote: »

Why did you have to go there?.

You could have used the Iraqi war example, or even Afghanistan.

But no, you just had to mention our old friend Northern Ireland, and it's lovely history.

This thread is about a suicide bombing in Moscow, which has fcuk all to do with Northern Ireland.

.

There's a dub for you. :pac:

dlofnep

Iolar wrote: »

Lets not forget the Chechens and Ingush also used this on ethnic Russians in the region too.no one is whiter than white in this conflict

I don't know if they did, or did not. I wasn't attempt to justify their attack. Merely answering the question as to why women would be willing to become a human bomb.

MiciG91

Putin says he will 'destroy' those responsible for Moscow suicide bombings.

Don't mean to be facetious but, haven't they already done that?

BOHtox

Suicide Sisters In Subway Station

OutlawPete

Two More Suicide Bombings in Russia this morning:

Nine killed by twin bombings in Russia's Dagestan

Kizlyar is situated close to Dagestan's border with Chechnya

At least nine people, including a top regional police official, have been killed by two bombs in Russia's restive North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.

A car bomb was detonated at about 0830 (0430 GMT) outside the offices of the local interior ministry and the FSB security agency in the town of Kizlyar.

The second bomb went off about 35 minutes later on the same street.
Russia is on alert after double suicide bombings on the Moscow Metro on Monday morning, which killed 39 people.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has called on security forces to "scrape from the sewers" those responsible. Investigators say they believe the bombers were linked to militants operating in the North Caucasus.

Last month, Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov threatened that "the zone of military operations will be extended to the territory of Russia... the war is coming to their cities".

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