MOSCOW METRO TERROR CHRONICLES CINEMASCAPE technologos webcinema http://www.xmail.net/technologos/Aterror.html VIEW ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA TRAGIC STORY AT http://www.xmail.net/technologos/Anna.htm l The two Metro stations targeted were Lubyanka and Park Kultury both in the center of Moscow.
The death toll from the bomb attacks on two Moscow underground stations has reached 38 people. More than 60 others were injured in the explosions during the crowded morning rush hour. Officials say the explosives were detonated by two female suicide bombers likely to be connected with North Caucasus terrorist groups.Terrorist acts in Moscow metro: The first attack in the history of the Moscow metro occurred on 8 January 1977.Then, in Moscow there have been three almost simultaneous explosions. In the train station between stations Izmailovskaya and Pervomajskaya explosion, resulting in 7 people were killed and 37 injuries of varying severity. A little later, in Moscow there were two explosions: one - in the grocery store on the street Dzerzhinsky (now Bolshaya Lubyanka), the second street on October 25. Information about the attacks appeared in the media only two days later. Three months later on charges in the bombing were arrested three people from the Caucasus. Their trial was secret. All figures of the were sentenced to death.
June 11, 1996 in the train between stations “Tula” and “Nagatinskaja” exploded an improvised explosive device: 4 people killed, 14 received various injuries. The explosion of one car was destroyed and others damaged. Passengers had to walk to the nearest station. An explosive device explosive type, equivalent in power to one kilogram of TNT, were placed under the seat in the car, where there was a technical equipment composition. 7 December 1997 were detained two suspected terrorist attack, whose names were not disclosed. Responsibility for the explosion itself took the Chechen separatists, but many later sources do not confirm this information. The most famous of the field commanders of the Chechen separatists at the time - Shamil Basayev and Salman Raduyev - did not make statements about his attitude to this terrorist attack.
August 8, 2000 an explosion in the underpass at the Pushkinskaya metro station in central Moscow. 13 people were killed and more than 90 injured.
February 5, 2001 at 18.45 explosion occurred at the station “Belarus”. Bomb was planted under a marble bench, located on the platform. Thanks to the great weight bench, which softened the blow, the impact of the explosion were not so great.
February 6, 2004 in the Moscow subway, there was another terrorist attack. At 8.30 am blast in a train on the stretch between the stations Avtozavodskaya and Paveletskaya. Bomb capacity of 4 pounds of TNT detonated a suicide bomber. The blast killed 41 people, not counting himself a terrorist. Over 250 were injured.
August 31, 2004 at 20.50 Moscow time, flew bomber attack in the lobby of station “Riga”. 10 deaths, as well as the very terrorist and her accomplice. About 50 people were injured varying degrees of severity. Nicholas Kipkeev, accidentally killed an accomplice of a terrorist, was twice convicted head of “Karachay jamaat. According to investigators, he was involved in the bombings and the bus stops in Voronezh. Of the blast at the “Riga”, on the stretch Avtozavodskaya - Paveletskaya and Voronezh were later merged into one, and three accomplices were convicted terrorists
