I don't want to tell you what religion the Moscow suicide bomber apparently was, because I don't want you to think I'm 'Islamo...," but Debbie Schlussel has all the details here.Labels: Domodedovo Airport, Islamic terrorism, Islamophobia, Moscow, Politics, suicide bombers, World Politics
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:45 PM
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In televised remarks, the Russian president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, said: “At Domodedovo an explosion has occurred, and according to preliminary information it was a terrorist attack. There are dead and there are wounded.”Here's an English language Russian television report from about an hour after the blast. Let's go to the videotape.
He admonished officials for their failure to prevent the attack, and ordered the police to boost security at all airports and on public transportation. Mr. Medvedev also said he was delaying his departure for the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which begins this week.
International arrivals were being diverted to nearby airports, according to local news media reports.
The airport, southeast of the capital, is Russia’s largest airline hub, with more than 20 million passengers passing through last year.
If investigators find that the explosion was the result of terrorism, it would be the first such attack to hit Moscow since March, when two suicide bombers detonated explosives on the city’s subway during rush hour. More than 40 people were killed in that attack, which was traced to two women from Dagestan who had ridden buses into the capital.
The rebel leader Doku Umarov took responsibility for the March attack. In 2009, Mr. Umarov revived a suicide battalion linked to the most notorious attacks of the last decade. In a video apparently made hours after the blast, Mr. Umarov said, “The war will come to your streets, and you will feel it in your own lives and on your own skin.”
In August 2004, two Chechen suicide bombers boarded separate planes at Domodedovo airport before killing themselves and 88 others in midair. The attack exposed holes in security at the airport: the two bombers, both women, had been detained shortly before boarding, but were released by a police supervisor. The authorities have since worked to improve procedures at Domodedovo.
Monday’s explosion in Moscow pointed to the continuing fascination with air travel for militants, as well as the difficulty of carrying out an attack aboard a jet, said Stephen A. Baker, a former official with the Department of Homeland Security. “They’d like to be bombing planes and they can’t, so they’re bombing airports,” he said, adding that the attack “validates the focus that the U.S. has had on security at airports.”
Labels: Domodedovo Airport, Moscow, Russia, terror attacks
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:43 PM
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