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Analyst and officials suspect "the Caucasus trace" behind the explosions
Published: 29 March, 2010, 13:17
Edited: 31 March, 2010, 07:57
TAGS: Conflict, Crime, Meeting, Accident, Politics, Terrorism
Some of them say, the blasts may be a payback after a series of attacks by the FSB, which have killed a number of terrorist leaders.
“The North Caucasus underground” may have decided to indicate their existence again, Viktor Chernous, director of the Center of System Regional Studies in Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia, told Rosbalt news agency.
This underground “is mixed, but it had the possibility to prepare the explosions, although it is too expensive,” the analyst said. There were two explosions, which demonstrates “a certain political intention,” he noted.
“Several explosions occur during terrorist attacks,” Chernous said, adding that if criminals had been involved “there would have been a single blast.”
The North Caucasus trace may theoretically lead to different republics and different local armed groups, he believes. However, local groups have recently been oriented “more at the situation in their own republics,” the analyst stressed.
Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, who visited the scene of the second blast, said that according to the FSB information, two female suicide bombers could have been involved. He promised that the work of the Metro will return to normal soon.
The two suicide bombers were likely to have entered the Metro at the Yugo-Zapadnaya Metro station on the red line, the line on which the both explosions occurred, a source in the subway’s administration told Interfax.
Law enforcers mention “an illogical character of the sequence of the explosions,” saying that the suicide bombers were “poorly oriented” in the subway, the agency said.
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia called on Russians to consolidate in the face of the danger of terrorism, without panicking or becoming desperate. Not only should terrorists be stopped, but also those who “support, finance or justify them,” he said.
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My deepest condolence to all victims and all those injurred in the Moscow attacks. In this hard moment let us not forget that UK has long been endorsing the Chechen anti-Russian terrorist leaders. I am not saying that Britons are directly involved in the two blasts, but the way they (UK) behave as to these terrorists surely doesn't help in reducing their ability to commit crimes against innocent Russian civilians.
I saw the interview on CrossTalk and the British analyst kept referring to "separatists" as if they were just trying to obtain their independence. Not everybody in the west believes that anymore. Maybe in the first Chechen war, when the republic actually won its de-facto independence, we saw them as "freedom fighters". But when the fighters were not content with that and decided to use Chechnya as a base to "spread the revolution" - and especially after Beslan - then they lost credibility. For any so-called expert to refer to them as "separatists" after all this, just means that expert is stuck in a time loop and still thinks it is 1991.