the week ends...
and talking about trouble... it's neither the day to try a «superloo» in staffordshire nor to take the underground in moscow... i fear the cause and total number of casualties in the latter by the time i get up in a few hours...nota bene: saturday, 07 february 04 - news reports indicate that so far about thirty people lost their life in the blast at the moscow underground and another seventy suffered injuries. this attack will likely be blamed on chechen rebels (they may well take responsibility anyway) and just about eighteen months since putin declared the war in chechnya was over. attacks of this nature aren't new in this conflict; they've been taking place since june 2000.
the list so far includes:
- a lorry-bomb attack on the grozny administration at the end of december 2002; left 80 people dead.
- a carbon copy of that attack in znamenskoye, in the north of chechnya in may; left more than 50 dead.
- an attack at a religious ceremony in chechnya later that month; two female suicide bombers apparently tried to assassinate chechnya's pro-moscow leader (now chechen president) akhmad kadyrov.
- another lorry bomb in june, which destroyed a branch of the federal security service in grozny and a local government building.
- a suicide bomb attack on a bus carrying air force personnel near mozdok in north ossetia, the same month.
- an attack by two female suicide bombers at a rock concert in moscow in july; 15 people killed .
- another lorry bomb at a military hospital in mozdok on 01 august; killed at least 50 people.
- a bomb attack on a train in the stavropol region of southern russia, in december; at least 44 people killed .
