# Terrorist Bomb in Moscow Airport **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 24, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-bomb-in-moscow-airport/568787 "2011-01-24T15:07:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-bomb-in-moscow-airport/568787/1 "2011-01-24T15:07:19Z")
[33 reported dead right now.](http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/24/explosion-rocks-moscow-airport/?hpt=T1&iref=BN1) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-bomb-in-moscow-airport/568787/2 "2011-01-24T16:07:18Z")
Looks like it now says 31 dead and over 130 injured. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-bomb-in-moscow-airport/568787/3 "2011-01-24T16:11:26Z")
Jesus. Nasty. The usual suspects - Chechen separatists? Or could it be something else? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-bomb-in-moscow-airport/568787/4 "2011-01-24T18:41:13Z")
35 dead, 152 injured. Suicide bomb. ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-bomb-in-moscow-airport/568787/5 "2011-01-24T19:12:50Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Jesus. Nasty. > > The usual suspects - Chechen separatists? Or could it be something else? Or Georgian agents, or extreme nationalists, or one of the many other groups thats been getting strong armed by the Putin administration. Or possibly even the administration itself drumming up hysteria before the election to ensure a smooth transfer of power. Who knows, its a complicated time for Russia right now. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-bomb-in-moscow-airport/568787/6 "2011-01-24T19:49:43Z")
A local news station started their midday news with a story about a pending lawsuit over an accidental school shooting from last week. How that’s more important than a terrorist attack like this continues to blow my mind and make me angry. ---
**Author:** ![Khaki\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Khaki\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khaki_Campbell)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-bomb-in-moscow-airport/568787/7 "2011-01-24T19:50:57Z")
> [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](#): > > or extreme nationalists, or one of the many other groups thats been getting strong armed by the Putin administration. Or possibly even the administration itself drumming up hysteria before the election to ensure a smooth transfer of power. Who knows, its a complicated time for Russia right now. What a bunch of crap :rolleyes:. If the same was said about 9/11, cries of “conspiracy nut” would resonate. It’s _simple_. Those fucking chechen mizzlim scum. ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-bomb-in-moscow-airport/568787/8 "2011-01-24T20:04:20Z")
> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#): > > What a bunch of crap :rolleyes:. Yeah, its pretty out there, however if you look at [1999 Russian apartment bombings - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings) you’ll notice a paragraph stating: [QUOTE=Wikipedia;] Yury Felshtinsky (resides in the USA), Alexander Litvinenko (assassinated in 2006), Boris Berezovsky (oligarch in British exile), David Satter, Boris Kagarlitsky, Vladimir Pribylovsky, the secessionist Chechen authorities claimed that the 1999 bombings were a false flag attack coordinated by the FSB in order to win public support for a new full-scale war in Chechnya, which boosted Prime Minister and former FSB Director Vladimir Putin’s popularity, and brought the pro-war Unity Party to the State Duma and Putin to the presidency within a few months. [/QUOTE] This and a number of other similar accusations that have surfaced in recent years makes me entertain the possibility of just about any atrocity in Russia being an inside job. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-bomb-in-moscow-airport/568787/9 "2011-01-24T20:15:12Z")
> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#): > > What a bunch of crap :rolleyes:. If the same was said about 9/11, cries of “conspiracy nut” would resonate. Because there’s much more evidence of who was responsible, complete with a known terrorist group claiming responsibility. And the majority of the 9-11 conspiracy theories are too impractically grandiose to pull of. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-bomb-in-moscow-airport/568787/10 "2011-01-24T22:12:49Z")
Weren’t we just talking a few months ago about the possibility of this? About how personal searches in airports are useless, because bombers will switch to just letting 'er rip while they’re standing in line? I’ll do a search and come back. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-bomb-in-moscow-airport/568787/11 "2011-01-24T22:17:51Z")
The [Yahoo news](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_russia_airport_blast)version has a graf about a man who thought he’d been badly wounded in the blast, only to be assured by doctors that he was, in fact, okay, and was merely \*wearing \*the person who had been standing next to him. How utterly terrifying for everyone there… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-bomb-in-moscow-airport/568787/12 "2011-01-24T23:24:25Z")
That is awful. BTW, can we save the crap in this thread about determining responsibility and who is to blame for this for when we actually know some more about it? Or until the bodies are actually cooled a bit? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-bomb-in-moscow-airport/568787/13 "2011-01-25T01:32:53Z")
> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#): > > What a bunch of crap :rolleyes:. If the same was said about 9/11, cries of “conspiracy nut” would resonate. > > It’s _simple_. Those fucking chechen mizzlim scum. We’re in MPSIMS, not the Pit. Please avoid slurs against religious, ethnic, or racial groups. Thanks, **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrorist-bomb-in-moscow-airport/568787/14 "2011-01-25T04:29:49Z")
Fucked up world we live in . The more I think about it the more I think Richard Proenneke had the right idea.