Terrorists Bomb Moscow Airport

jayme0227 writes "Terrorists detonated a bomb at Moscow's busiest airport on Monday, killing 35 people and wounding another 152, Russian authorities said. President Dmitry Medvedev, who called the bombing a terrorist attack, ordered additional security at Moscow's other airports and transportation hubs, and Moscow police went on high alert in case of additional bombs." According to the NY Times, "The airport remained open on Monday evening, and passengers continued to flow through the hall where the bomb had exploded."

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Obviously not afraid of terrorists in Russia

[drinkypoo]

Here we'd have closed the airport for days to make it look like we were doing something. There, they just pick up the pieces and move on. Guess who's not going to still be running things in twenty years?

Re:Obviously not afraid of terrorists in Russia

[MightyYar]

Here we'd have closed the airport for days to make it look like we were doing something.

Don't you think that has just a little to do with them being "used" to terrorism? The British didn't stop everything when the IRA was blowing stuff up, either.

I don't think I'm on board that our skin needs to be as thick as the Russians. It is admirable that they can move past such an event, but it's actually quite sad as well.

Re:Obviously not afraid of terrorists in Russia

[somersault]

Shouldn't they at least destroy their economy again with a prolonged war or something like that? How about a bit of racial profiling and cancer inducing body scanners? Seriously, where's the fun in bombing a country if they're not going to shit themselves?

Not exactly WWII

[TheNarrator]

The last time Russia was fighting for its territorial integrity 24 million Russians died. The terrorists have severely underestimated what it takes to frighten the Russian leadership into making concessions. You see, as long as all the terrorists die, the Russians don't really care. If you look at the Beslan massacre or the Moscow Theatre Seige, there was very little concern for the hostages, many of whom died during the raids by the security forces. It seems the main thing the government accomplished in both of the raids was killing all the terrorists and minimal casualties to security forces. It's probably modeled after things like Stalin's decision to not evacuate Stalingrad when the Nazis invaded.

Re:Not exactly WWII

[rahvin112]

Wikipedia isn't a source, anyone with any sense would know that.

I have studied this war and I have taken collage courses that discussed it extensively including reading the logs and diaries of those involved. Stalin tried extensively to rewrite history after the war and claim holding onto Stalingrad was his idea at the start. Reading Wikipedia it's clear he was at least partially successful in that some fool that read the "corrected" version posted it. Stalin evacuated the entire Red Army across the Volgo river and committed the 6th army one of the weakest in the corp to defend the city at pain of death (if they tried to evacuate they would be shot). As the only army still remaining on the western side of the Volga it wasn't until the Nazi's were already in the city that the 6th arrived and began defensive maneuvers. I doubt Stalin thought they would succeed but he believed they would distract the Nazi's from severing the bridgeheads that allowed the Red army counterattack to cross.

Stalin committed the rest of the army to defense of two bridgeheads and crossings of the Volga while the rest of red army regrouped, reinforced and rearmed. As the Volga is a very large and dangerous river (compared to the Mississippi) with limited crossings. It wasn't until it was clear that the citizens along with their only reinforcements in the 6th Red Army had held the city (under penalty of death) that Stalin allowed real professional generals to began planing the offensive that cut off the Nazi supply lines and cost the Nazi's the most battle hardened and experienced divisions in the Nazi army. Later in the early winter when it was clear that Hitler was fully committed and the 6th was almost fully exhausted did Stalin order reinforcements boated across the river to hold the city until the remainder of the army was ready. Make no mistake, Stalin didn't order the holding of the city at any cost until it was clear that it could be done and he had the reinforcements on the way to perform the pincer maneuver from the two bridge heads that isolated the heart of the German army and starved them to death.

Stalin made sure to claim after the war that he planned it all from the start but the history is pretty clear that he didn't take that path until it was clear that the 6th with the help of the citizens and under threat of being shot by their own side did it become clear he could actually turn the tide. Incidentally it was his success in forcing the 6th to fight that caused him to create the suicide divisions in the army (that would be shot if they didn't advance) that was so successful in destroying the german army. Make no mistake, when he ordered the sixth to hold the city at any cost he did so with the belief that they wouldn't succeed and it wasn't until after they were nearly wiped out and he was in danger of losing the bridgeheads that he committed reinforcements.

Now if you relied on real history sources rather that Wikipedia you would know how inaccurate it can be.

Re:All Religions are like that

[Nadaka]

All religion is tainted. The foundation of modern Christianity was forged in the inquisition and before that in the crimes of the Hebrew. No religion can be just when it is founded on oppression, rape, murder, slavery and genocide. I know this because I have lived in a "good christian home" and saw violence and depravity that few can imagine. I know this because I read my bible, every chapter, every verse, every word. Then I studied other religions and found them as filled with vile filth as my own. A good man can not found his morality on so corrupt and decayed a foundation as that.

Re:So much for security theater

[SuperKendall]

See the report from the person who was actually at the airport. It seems that actually in Russia's case it really was security theater since metal detectors were optional, not mandatory as we have here. So our security would have prevented this attack (in the terminal anyway).

Re:Joke Time

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

There is no "Islamic Terror".

There are deep intelligence operations. These are funded by Mossad, CIA, Pakistan's ISI, etc.

A complete investigation of David Headley - for just one example - would give you some idea of the nature of para-political, deep-state actors in perpetrating terror for their own ends, and the usefulness of the "Islamic" fiction.

If you think that you are capable of correctly evaluating the the real nature of these events, based on the unexamined and uninvestigated statements of official sources? Then you do not correctly ascertain the meaning or implications of the term "disinformation".

Ask yourself this: "Does my government maintain a policy of disinformation, regarding its own people? If so, how would I know? Is the reporting of independent, corporate news agencies a sufficient source of information to verify or validate these claims?"

http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php

http://danwismar.com/uploads/Bernstein%20-%20CIA%20and%20Media.htm

I suggest you take up mindfulness meditation for 5-15 minutes a day. Wen yourself from all "news" for one month. Then come back, and look freshly at the spinning matrix of lies.

Re:Sympathy for the victims, lessons for us

[shutdown -p now]

In fact, this is precisely the scenario that we've been talking on Slashdot for so long - the terrorists detonated the bomb in the crowded area right before the first controlled checkpoint in the airport (customs).

Re:Joke Time

[stdarg]

There are over a billion Muslims in the world. There is a 1/6 chance of any randomly selected person being Muslim.

If only 1 out of 6 suicide bombers were Muslim you would have a pretty good argument right there. Maybe you're not proving what you think you're proving.

I had Christians, Muslims, and Jews at my wedding... we got along then, and 10 years later we are still getting along!

That's nice, but were your wedding guests randomly selected from the entire world? No? Then what is your point? That your own close circle of friends has different dynamics than the societal thrusts of populations numbering in the hundreds of millions and billions spread across the entire globe?? Wow, I never would have guessed that.

Re:All Religions are like that

[Anonymous Coward]

Buddhism is not a religion, but thanks for playing all the same.

Said like a man of true ignorance.

Except that Buddhism is NOT a religion. It's a school of thought. It focuses on peace, harmony, etc. The fact the people practice it as if it were a religion, or tack on their own supernatural back story (which flies in the face of the actual teachings) is irrelevant.

How about actually trying to study Buddhism?

Buddhist concepts like karma, which differs from Hindi karma, are purely religion.

Then there's reincarnation which is also part of Buddhism.

To call Buddhism something other then a religion is an argument purely from ignorance.