Men Hold Moscow Audience Hostage [Reports of 1000 Hostages]

AP News ^ | OCTOBER 23, 14:03 ET

[McGruff]

MOSCOW (AP) — Armed men entered a Moscow theater Wednesday and took the audience hostage, the Federal Security Service said.

The theater was holding a performance of the musical Nord-Ost, one of the Russian capital's most popular productions.

The Interfax news agency said one of its reporters was inside the theater at the time of the raid. She told them in a telephone call that the men had fired into the air and were preventing the audience from leaving, the agency said.

Police units were on their way to the scene.

[hunter112]

And only if you can get good footage?

Bingo, Diddle, and that's why Fox spent a week on an Irish Traveller mom slapping the snot out of her kid. News footage drives it all. It was the only difference between Rodney King and any other street thug.

[ProbableCause]

And tomorrow, the terrorists will be "dissidents" or "seperatists." Yup, they're putting a terrorist-friendly spin on it already. It's just disgusting.

[Diddle E. Squat]

I was being sarcastic. I am extremely dissappointed with the near TOTAL lack of media coverage here, and especially with FoxNewsChannel.

About to send an e-mail to them about this.

At least now we are getting CNN's international coverage on this. Looks like I'll be watching them for now.

[white trash redneck]

Iraq is not part of that war.

Others (except DemocRATs) think Iraq is in the thick of it.

[gcruse]

Others (except DemocRATs) think Iraq is in the thick of it.

I don't hear that coming out of the White House any more.
Have they gone Dem?

[ProbableCause]

the major US networks are a joke.

You sure got that right.

[ProbableCause]

Hey, there's no Americans in the theatre. That's what counts. Now an enterprising individual could call Fox and tell them that their friend/relative visiting Russia was talking about seeing an authentic Russian popular play.....

Yup, in the view of US mass media, only Americans are worthy of interest or sympathy (unless the state dept. indicates otherwise).

[L,TOWM]

>>>>estimates that perhaps 10%-15% of Muslims are Islamists.<<<<

And another 70-80% are the "moderate" enablers.

[ProbableCause]

It is pathetic. This story should be covered live right now on all of the cable networks. Then go back to the Moose thing when he is ready to talk. Everyone dropping the ball. Time for everyone to e-mail the networks.

Right now they're witholding coverage while they run aroung in a panic wracking their brains to figure out how they're going to give this a pro-terrorist propagana spin.

[L,TOWM]

>>>>estimates that perhaps 10%-15% of Muslims are Islamists.<<<<

And another 70-80% are the "moderate" enablers.

[Michael2001]

Headline in tomorrow's Arab News:

4,000 Israelis who had tickets didn't attend Moscow play.

[spodefly]

I actually just heard (on CNN no less) them use the words 'DC sniper' and 'islamic terrorist' in the same sentence ...

[ProbableCause]

Sure, Stalin killed hundreds of thousands of his "closest frends" and starved out the kulaks (small subsistance farmers and landowners, a couple million of 'em killed) in order to make room for the collective farms. But 50 million executed? Think about it, That's almost one in three of the entire SU's 1930s population. It's just a ridiculous assertion. It's impossible. It was big news when they found a mass grave last month with a few thousand bodies connected to the purge period. Chirst, with 50 million there'd be no end to the graves. No disrespect intended, but I won't talk about it further at this time.

[Route66]

I do not understand why all news about this has dried up.
I last heard news of a loud explosion as reported on CNN and Drudge, and now nothing.

[Stavka2]

A bit of info: Russia has been fighting these maggots far longer then America. As a matter of fact, less then a year before 911, Russia was planning on bombing the Taliban, while the US was still giving them cash for getting rid of drugs....The US admin stopped them.

[MarMema]

Hey, how's things?
What's your best estimate for this one? My predicted outcome is not good.

[MarMema]

Thanks so much for the good idea. I sent a message of support to the people at the Moscow Times.

[AdvisorB]

How many people did Stalin have killed? 10 million? 20 million? 30 million? How many angels can dance on a
pinhead? The fact is, Stalin was instrumental in sending
millions to their deaths. He probably killed more bolsheviks
than all of the white generals combined.

[Destructor]

Muslims are nothing but a bunch of murderous thugs! I'll bet that if the truth were known Allah is not God at all. I'd be willing to bet that these people are actually worshipping Satan!