BOOM BOOM
Two explosions rock the area as terrorists take aim at two cars parked too closely to the school (and miss). - no link...heard it on the radio.
31 released from the school
Recent Terrorist events in Russia (Chechnyan)
Sept. 1: More than a dozen attackers carrying guns and reportedly wrapped in suicide-bomb belts seize an elementary school in the Russian region of North Ossetia, taking hundreds of hostages, including some 200 children.
_ August 31: Car blows up outside a Moscow subway stop, killing at least 10 people. Federal Security Services blame a
female suicide bomber, according to news reports.
_ August 24: Two airliners crash within minutes of each other after taking off from the same airport, killing a total of 90 people. Officials say explosive traces were found in the wreckage and President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) calls the crashes terrorist acts.
_ May 9: Bomb rips through a stadium in the Chechen capital, Grozny, during a Victory Day ceremony, killing provincial President Akhmad Kadyrov, the Kremlin's point man for efforts to control separatist violence in the war-wracked region. As many as 24 people are killed.
A Chechen warlord claims responsibility.
_ Feb. 6: Explosion rips through a subway car in the Moscow metro during rush hour, killing 41 people. Authorities suspect a terrorist attack.
2003:
_Dec. 9:
Female suicide bomber blows herself up outside Moscow's National Hotel, across from the Kremlin and Red Square, killing five bystanders.
_ Dec. 5: Suicide bombing on commuter train in southern Russia kills 44 people. Putin condemns attack as bid to destabilize the country two days before parliamentary elections.
_ Sept. 16: Two suicide bombers drive a truck laden with explosives into a government security services building near Chechnya (news - web sites), killing three people and injuring 25.
_ Aug. 1: Suicide bomber rams truck filled with explosives into a military hospital near Chechnya, killing 50 people, including Russian troops wounded in Chechnya.
_ July 10: Russian security agent dies in Moscow while trying to defuse a bomb a
woman had tried to carry into a cafe on central Moscow's main street.
_ July 5: Double suicide bombing at a Moscow rock concert kills the
female attackers and 15 other people.
_ June 5:
Female suicide attacker detonates bomb near a bus carrying soldiers and civilians to a military airfield in Mozdok, a major staging point for Russian troops in Chechnya, killing at least 16 people.
_ May 14:
Woman blows up explosives strapped to her waist in crowd of thousands of Muslim pilgrims, killing at least 18 people in an apparent attempt on the life of Chechnya's Moscow-backed chief administrator, Akhmad Kadyrov, now the region's president.
_ May 12: Suicide truck-bomb attack kills at least 60 people at a government compound in northern Chechnya.
_ April 3: Passenger bus hits remote-controlled land mine in the Chechen capital, killing at least 8.
2002:
_ Dec. 27: Suicide truck-bomb attack destroys headquarters of Chechnya's Moscow-backed government, killing 72 people.
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Looks like this is nothing new in Russia, eh? Women suicide bombers??!? That's a new twist!