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Blast at moscow airport
Topic Started: Jan 24 2011, 02:58 PM (495 Views)
A Storm is Coming



http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/24/explosion-at-moscow-airport.html
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Thanks for being lazy only posting links and never the stories ;)
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Explosion at Moscow Airport
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/24/explosion-at-moscow-airport.html
by Owen MatthewsJanuary 24, 2011

An explosion reportedly killed at least 31 people today at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, sparking fears of a new wave of terrorist attacks in Russia.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKYkFgMz7fQ


As Russian television showed images of Moscow airport’s bright international-baggage-claim hall strewn with debris and darkened with smoke, after an explosion that reportedly killed at least 31 people today, many Muscovites revisited the sinking feeling they experienced less than a year ago when more than 40 people were killed by female suicide bombers on the Moscow Metro.

For many of the capital’s citizens, the beige-and-red interiors of the Domodedovo airport are almost as familiar as the Metro itself, a symbol of the new prosperity brought to Russians under Vladimir Putin’s rule, their post-Soviet freedom to travel.

But as today’s explosion proved all too grimly—the Russian state has failed to bring security to its people.

A dozen years ago, Russians signed up to a clear, if unspoken, deal with the Kremlin. In September 1999, a series of unexplained bomb attacks

demolished apartment buildings in Moscow and south Russia, killing 293 people. Vladimir Putin, then a relatively unknown former spook, was promoted to prime minister on the promise to protect Russia from secessionist terrorists from the breakaway republic of Chechnya.

Within weeks Russian troops were rolling into Chechnya, and Putin’s political career was launched. The bottom line of the deal Putin offered Russia was this: voters surrendered many of the freedoms they had enjoyed during the chaotic Yeltsin years in exchange for protection. Many Russian voters were only too happy to accept everything that followed—the rise of the Kremlin, Putin’s squashing of the oligarchs, the crackdown on independent media, and the end of local elections—because they believed that the state would fulfill its primary role: to guard the security of its citizens.

Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened. Chechnya itself was quickly subdued by the ruthless but effective expedient of arming one of the rebel groups and using it to torture, murder, and intimidate its way to victory. But the broader Russian-enforced peace across the North Caucasus didn’t bring the terror to an end. Instead, terror and Islamic radicalism metastasized like a cancer across the North Caucasus, and infected the volatile neighboring republics of Dagestan and Ingushetia.

The immediate result was that the Putin era has been punctuated by a steady drumbeat of terrorist outrages—from the Moscow theater siege in 2002, to the Beslan school massacre in 2004, to the Moscow Metro bombings last spring—that left a combined 495 dead.

But apart from those high-profile attacks, smaller terror is an almost weekly occurrence in the south Russian borderlands with the North Caucasus.

During the last 12 months, and counting just the incidents with double digit-fatalities, attacks have included the bombing of a racetrack in Nalchik, a market in Vladikavkaz, a cultural center in Stavropol, and a military base in Buinaksk. Terrorists from the Caucasus derailed a high-speed train between Moscow and St. Petersburg, attacked a power plant, and bombed numerous police stations across the region. Effectively, the Kremlin is fighting a low-intensity war in south Russia. But if a decade ago Russia was at war with Chechen rebels with a clearly defined set of goals focused on the independence of Chechnya, now the enemy is a shadowy plethora of tiny Islamist groups with a range of grievances against the Russian state, from blood feud to plain-vanilla ethnic nationalism.

One thing is clear, though: the authorities’ methods of fighting the insurgency—ranging from the kidnapping of family members of suspected militants to extrajudicial executions, well documented by human-rights groups—aren’t working.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about the decade of terror is that Russian voters have failed to blame their leaders for their lack of security. On the contrary, Putin built his tough-guy image on such swaggering promises as “rubbing out the terrorists in the shithouse.” Polls regularly show that Putin is more trusted on security issues than his baby-faced, handpicked successor, Dmitry Medvedev. Though the failure to bring lasting peace to the Caucasus is Putin’s, it’s likely the more liberal Medvedev whose ratings will suffer from continued terror. “If Russia is hit with another wave of terror attacks or armed conflict, people will look to Putin,” says Alexei Grazhdankin of the Moscow-based Levada Center. “He is seen as a strong defender of the Russian state.” This evening Medvedev announced that he would be canceling a visit to the Davos conference to deal with the bombing.

Putin’s toughness is no mere rhetoric—at his instigation, a decade of very hands-on violence has been applied to the Caucasus, with little result. No one can reasonably blame the Kremlin for tonight’s appalling bomb attack on Moscow’s busiest airport. But it’s equally clear that Putin has built a police state that’s good at cracking down on dissent but bad at delivering security—not to mention honoring its basic contract with the people who surrendered their freedoms in exchange for a quiet life.






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That was wierd..

You're last post was showing it was made after 8 PM TODAY (Its 4PM now)

But after closing the browser and returning to the forum, it now shows 2:03 PM

2:03 is the correct time

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Edited by A Storm is Coming, Jan 24 2011, 05:12 PM.
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Makes me wonder if some sort of "exercises" were going on at the time of the blast.
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YougeneDebs
Jan 24 2011, 06:14 PM
Makes me wonder if some sort of "exercises" were going on at the time of the blast.
Hmmmm???
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You know. In London, the 7/7 attacks occured during some "exercises".
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Yeah, and the 9/11 attacks also occured during some "exercises".
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Steer clear of the "exercises".
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OMG

Its doing it again!

Oh, wait....It is after 8 PM now!
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Edited by A Storm is Coming, Jan 24 2011, 09:40 PM.
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SO WHO DID THE MOSCOW BOMBING AND WHY?
Is the bombing of Moscow airport linked to Russia’s recognition of Palestine and, if so, then who is responsible and why?
http://lataan.blogspot.com/2011/01/so-who-did-moscow-bombing-and-why.html

Moscow bombing: Carnage at Russia's Domodedovo airport
President Medvedev was just in Palestine, without setting a foot into Israhell, and recognizing East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.
Seems like those Mossad bastards just gave their "thanks" to Russia...
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/241798

No Israeli Casualties in Moscow Airport Attack
http://www.heimishheadlines.com/2011/01/israel-reports-no-israeli-casualties-in-moscow-airport-attack

Security measures at Domodedovo Airport “clearly violated” - Medvedev
measures of ensuring security were violated, he [Medvedev] stressed.
It is difficult to bring such a quantity of explosives, the president noted. The airport management, all those who take decisions there and who are connected with the company “should be called to account,” Medvedev said.
if you have agents inside the security company itself to open key doors at key times, smuggling in a wheelbarrow full of explosives get much easier!
http://rt.com/politics/medvedev-airport-domodedovo-security

Taken from:
http://whatreallyhappened.com

Also:
News that an alleged suicide bomber killed 31 people and injured over a hundred after an explosion at Russia’s biggest airport is sure to provide the establishment media and governments in the west with more grist through which to sell their fearmongering agenda.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/americans-are-just-as-likely-to-get-struck-by-lightning-than-killed-by-terrorists.html
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Thanks, Chris~ After 'drill-down', we get to:

"The Palestinians today [January 18, 2011] say 109 states out of 192 United Nations member countries recognize their statehood."

source

Everybody should recognize Palestinian Statehood with East Jerusalem as it's Capitol.

Everybody.

Thanks again,
Debs
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