Suicide bomber kills 16 at Russian train station - CNN

[realizm]

Video:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xIrYNbdLHIQ

 

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By Alla Eshcheko and Steve Almasy, CNN
Updated 1:58 PM EST, Sun December 29, 2013

Moscow (CNN) -- A massive explosion at a train station in the Russian city of Volgograd killed at least 16 people, including one police officer, the Investigative Committee of Russia said on its website Sunday.

The head of the committee, Vladimir Markin, said 16 people had been killed and 34 people were injured, including a 9-year-old girl.

The female suicide bomber set off the device before she could pass through a metal detector, Markin said, citing available information.

He said the bomber used the equivalent of 10 kilograms of TNT and included shrapnel.
Investigators also found an unexploded grenade.

Video taken from an outside security camera shows a huge fireball inside what appears to be the main entrance of the three-story stone building followed by a steady trail of smoke coming out shattered windows.

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[Turbo19]

Alas this only contributes to the ever growing amount of political minded suicide bombers, willing to take themselves and everyone else around them down.

 

My condolences go out to the victims.

[realizm]

Alas this only contributes to the ever growing amount of political minded suicide bombers, willing to take themselves and everyone else around them down.

 

My condolences go out to the victims.

 

The Boston Marathon bombers had connections to Chechen militants or other groups from outside provinces (possibly). Its unconfirmed at this point but very likely Chechen rebels may be responsible. The history of resistance is a very deeply complicated and very bloody one, the worst attack I can recall being on a school in North Ossetia which found over 300 people dead after the siege ended. This has been the violent trend in Eurasia since the conflict in the North Caucasus republic began in 1994.

[Cait Sith]

With this being the 2nd attack in two months, it makes you wonder how things will be during New Years and the Winter Olympics.

[Turbo19]

With this being the 2nd attack in two months, it makes you wonder how things will be during New Years and the Winter Olympics.

F**k, it's bad enough with the controversy with the Adyghe people and Russia, I can only imagine what a clusterf**k it will be at the event.

[realizm]

With this being the 2nd attack in two months, it makes you wonder how things will be during New Years and the Winter Olympics.

I've just read that Chechen insurgent leader Doku Umarov has previously initiated an online campaign urging militants to use "maximum force" to prevent the Games from going ahead, according to BBC News. Its not looking too good for the Olympics you're right.

[bobtehpanda]

The Boston Marathon bombers had connections to Chechen militants or other groups from outside provinces (possibly). Its unconfirmed at this point but very likely Chechen rebels may be responsible. The history of resistance is a very deeply complicated and very bloody one, the worst attack I can recall being on a school in North Ossetia which found over 300 people dead after the siege ended. This has been the violent trend in Eurasia since the conflict in the North Caucasus republic began in 1994.

 

According to the reports coming out, it was a 'black widow' bombing; the female suicide bomber was widowed twice when Russian security forces killed her Islamist husbands during the ongoing Chechen conflict (this is confusingly worded, but she wasn't married to two people at the same time)

[SevenEleven]

It gets worse:

 

http://rt.com/news/russia-volgograd-trolley-blast-957/

[realizm]

14 passengers killed on a bus this time. The death toll expected to rise. Everyone is literally walking the streets, morbidly afraid of even taking public transportation at this point. 

[Vistausss]

This is really horrifying. Man, I feel sorry for the families of the killed people... Esp. because 2 attacks have taken place now. Hopefully no third one will come...

 

Meanwhile, in my city (Almere, The Netherlands) someone shot the back out of a bus yesterday evening. Luckily the bus was quite empty but it could've been disastrous had more people been on-board...

[Turbo19]

The images are quite perfect in depicting just how gruesome it all was. Horrific.

[Minato ku]

Russia has big problem with islamic terrorism and unfortunately, this is nothing new. 

[realizm]

Unfortunately this could continue despite the best of efforts by military forces because Volgograd is a major and vital transportation hub and therefore a sought after target. If my geographic knowledge is correct many must pass through this city if commuting by railroad to get to Moscow. On top of that it is close to the Caucasus, the source of the current insurgency, which compounds the problem even further.

 

Even more is the militias and their unrelenting goal of becoming an Islamic state despite Russia's attempts to automate their region when the Russian Federation was created in 1991 as they are taking resentment with the Orthodox Christian majority according to statements made by at least one of the militias.  Perhaps someone else may be able to explain this better but thats my take on this.

[Cait Sith]

In an effort to not make too many topics, we now have a 2nd attack.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/killed-blast-station-russias-south-21359943

[XcelsiorBoii4888]

Smh. This is ridiculous. What I don't understand is, what's the point of doing this? Hatred towards people? Its so hard to even imagine what it feels like walking around in fear of something blowing up. 

[bobtehpanda]

Smh. This is ridiculous. What I don't understand is, what's the point of doing this? Hatred towards people? Its so hard to even imagine what it feels like walking around in fear of something blowing up. 

 

Chechnya has more or less been oppressed by the Russians since the age of the Russian Empire. In 1991, during the Soviet breakup, Chechnya actually declared independence. Boris Yeltsin tried to suppress them in the first Chechen war, and failed. The second go-around by Putin in the late '90s is considered still ongoing, and essentially succeeded in destroying the secular nationalist movement, leaving only the crazy religious people.

 

To rub more salt in the wound, exactly 150 years before this Olympics is set to occur, the Russian Empire declared victory in the North Caucasus, defeating the nation of Circassia. They then forcibly deported most of the native Circassians to what is now Turkey. Most of these deportations, and the surrender itself, occurred in Sochi.

[realizm]

Smh. This is ridiculous. What I don't understand is, what's the point of doing this? Hatred towards people? Its so hard to even imagine what it feels like walking around in fear of something blowing up.

Thats what the American military did historically with Japan and also Vietnam, so its not a far fetched concept to me. Prominent powers in their quest for global influence can be murderous and so will their opponents in guerilla tactics. Its a sad reality of war and times of political conflict that is sobering to many.