Attack in Russia poisons shoppers

Sky News UK ^ | 26-12-2005 | SKY NEWS

[rhainw]

At least 78 people have become ill in a gas attack on a store in St Petersburg, Russia.

Dozens of people, suffering breathing difficulties and sickness, have been taken to hospital.

The Emergency Situations Ministry said the shop, belonging to the Maksidom chain, was among four stores targeted.

The mystery gas was released in one of the four stores, the Federal Security Service said.

Employees in the three other stores found boxes with wires and timers, but had managed to dispose of them.

The stores specialise in home goods.

More to follow...

[Just mythoughts]

It is still early, this story will probably change 10 times before a final report is settled upon.

Personally speaking it does NOT matter to me who used the gas, sure sounds like terrorism anyway it is presented.

Putin appears to think he can pick and choose his good terrorists and bad terrorists. Iran and Syria are his ok terrorists sponsor nations.

[indcons]

Sorry for the previous ping.....appears to be a false alarm. Muslims would rather not use methyl mercaptan. They would prefer a nerve gas of some kind to maximize damage.

Updated story: "Local media quoted prosecutors as saying the gas was methyl mercaptan, a compound added to domestic gas to give it its odour."

[Just mythoughts]

It is terrorism, the intent was allllll the same terrorize human beings, the terrorizers wanted business not dead bodies.

[festus]

Thats just wrong.

[grey_whiskers]

FOX NEWS is saying it was a business feud, not "terrorism". Just a business operation.

Look at the way some of the gangsta-rap recording labels act, they just might have a point. Full Disclosure: "It's nuttin' personal, Tony. It's business!"

Cheers!

...and Merry Christmas!

[Thombo2]

Fox News just said it was(possibly)an attack by a competitor????That's hard to believe.Talk about cut-throat competition.

[Just mythoughts]

Well but of course just like every other word that the liberal mind has perverted "business" means capitalism which for years has been the opposite of communism.

However, capitalism of the past had a specific meaning that made it anticommunism, in the past dozen years capitalism has been morphed into government run capitalism.

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Employees in the three other stores found boxes with wires and timers, but had managed to dispose of them.

The store's management would have to give me a serious raise before I'd perform EOD duty for them!

[grey_whiskers]

Merry Christmas to you, to, just yourthoughts...! :-)

However, capitalism of the past had a specific meaning that made it anticommunism, in the past dozen years capitalism has been morphed into government run capitalism.

I believe the technical term for that really is fascism. Try a dictionary from the 1930's - 1940's.

Full Disclosure: If you can find a copy, try reading Hilaire Belloc's The Servile State. He predicted in 1913 (even before the Russian Revolution) what the overall outcome of the conflict between Communism and Capitalism would be.

Cheers!

...and Merry Christmas, again!

[Just mythoughts]

Thanks, I will add that to my reading list. These 'isms' sure have a similar method of operation to them, power to a very few, no matter what it takes.

[Wiz]

He will blame everything on the FSB and the police, and gain popularity by the populist approach announcing for improvements that won't be made. The Russians' have been brainwashed by this tactics by Putin for years. At last he will highlight his economic succeess to dim his security failures, and create an illusion of successes when there were many other failures. Poor Russians for being brainwashed by the state controlled media. The oligarchy wasn't good, and foreigners should have played a better role to educate the media before Putin gained control. It's all late.

[LurkedLongEnough]

four stores targeted

Quite a few planners likely involved then.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

FOX NEWS is saying it was a business feud, not "terrorism". Just a business operation.

It would seem to me that poisoning the customers is not a sound long term business strategy.

[Bommer]

It's a whole lot easier to transport a few canisters of VX or sarin than it is hundreds or thousands of pounds of explosives.

Only problem with that is that they have no WMD's. Ted Kennedy says so, so it has to be true!

[Just mythoughts]

"It would seem to me that poisoning the customers is not a sound long term business strategy."


I don't know, this is not "WalMart vs KMart". Consider if you were to believe that to go to store X you might get gassed, just might be the incentive necessary to visit store P.

[MindBender26]

How difficult is it to manufacture the "bad" gasses?

[ex-Texan]

Gas canisters with timers found by police. Read More Reports on Russian Attacks

[F14 Pilot]

ROP?

[GladesGuru]

Regarding the man sprinkling fecal matter on pastries.

This guy must have been a pastry chef for a school food service and couldn't cope with the boredom of retirement.

[Ooh-Ah]

I find it (the competitor did it) hard to believe too because they supposedly found out who did it too rapidly! They could be trying to quell terrorism fears.

Of course this would never have happened if it were government run! /sarcasm