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	Moscow theater hostage crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Moscow theatre hostage crisis was the seizure on October 23, 2002 of a crowded Moscow theatre by armed Chechen men and women who claimed allegiance to the separatist movement in Chechnya.
		Doctor Andrei Seltsovsky, Moscow's health committee chairman, announced that all but one of the hostages that were killed in the raid had died of the effects of the unknown gas, rather than from gunshot wounds.
		While the siege was underway, the Russian government closed one television station, censored the coverage of another television station and a radio station, and publicly rebuked a newspaper for its coverage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moscow_Theatre_Siege (2389 words)

	Moscow Siege Anniversary Is Observed, Mourners Commemorate 130 Victims of 2002 Moscow Theater Siege - CBS News
		Mourners laid flowers on the square outside the theater, where portraits of the dead were on display, and released the 130 white balloons.
		A large portrait of Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist who had entered the theater during the siege and negotiated for a time with the captors, was taped to the theater wall.
		Politkovskaya, who had written extensively on the hostage crisis and the subsequent investigation and was a hero to hostages and their relatives, was killed in a contract-style killing Oct. 7.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/10/26/ap/world/mainD8L0BT780.shtml (474 words)

	FactsOfIsrael.com: 67 unarmed Russian hostages murdered by Chechen Islamic terrorists
		MOSCOW (Reuters) - Sixty-seven hostages were killed when Russian special forces stormed a Moscow theater at dawn on Saturday to end a three-day siege by Chechen rebels.
		Some analysts have said that the siege would almost certainly tarnish his position, if only for showing that the law-and-order regime he promised was not very effective if a band of heavily armed guerrillas could so easily take over a crowded building in the capital.
		But one analyst, speaking before the siege was over, feared that what he had seen as glimmers of hope for a change in Kremlin policy to seek a political, rather than military solution, could have now been snuffed out for theater attack.
	www.factsofisrael.com /blog/archives/000434-print.html (3025 words)

	CNN.com - 140 die in theatre siege climax - Oct. 26, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The death toll suffered in bringing an end to the three-day Moscow theatre siege has risen to 90 captives and 50 hostage-takers.
		It was a sudden end to the siege which began when armed Chechens took over the theatre, threatening to kill hostages unless Russia stopped its military campaign in the breakaway republic.
		Moscow blames Chechen militants, who say they are fighting for independence, for a series of bombings in Russia that killed more than 300 people.
	www.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/10/26/moscow.standoff/index.html (836 words)

	Series of EmergencyNet News "Real-Time" Reports Concerning A Major Hostage Incident in Moscow, Russia: 24-02 Nov 2002 ...
		Moscow issued the extradition request after a Chechen suicide squad seized a packed Moscow theater and took about 800 people hostage, threatening to kill them if Russia did not withdraw its forces from Chechnya immediately.
		MOSCOW, RUSSIA (EmergencyNet News) -- An explosion and gunshots have been heard in the vicinity of the Moscow theatre where Chechen rebels are holding hundreds of hostages.
		The atmosphere inside the theater is said to be becoming increasingly threatening, with reports that many of the hostages have been tied in their seats and some have had explosives strapped onto them.
	www.emergency.com /2002/russia_chechen_hostage.htm (4746 words)

	Chechnya
		Russian withdrawal is unlikely, due both to widespread outrage over the Moscow theater siege and to the notorious corruption of the Russian army.
		Following the Moscow theatre siege, Russia announced plans to intensify its campaign in Chechnya, cancelling scheduled troop withdrawals, surrounding Chechen refugee camps with soldiers, and increasing the frequency of assaults on Chechen rebel positions.
		After the theater siege, Russia demanded his extradition from Denmark, and later, the United Kingdom, but to date this has been denied.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Chechnya.html (1585 words)

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		American law enforcement officials are investigating the deadly takeover of a Moscow theater last year by Chechen rebels to determine whether Al Qaeda was involved and whether criminal charges should be brought in the United States, officials have said.
		The theater takeover "is a piece of the overall puzzle," the official said.
		Gubareva said she suspected that people outside the theater were involved when she overheard the rebel group's leader talking in Chechen on a cell phone.
	www.geocities.com /svetlana.gubareva/13.html (1172 words)

	The Badger Herald - Russia buries siege dead, Putin vows no surrender
		MOSCOW (REUTERS) — Russia prepares to bury its dead Tuesday from the Moscow theater siege, its leaders anxious to portray the Chechen conflict that fueled it as another front in the international war on terrorism.
		Of 117 captives who died in the siege, all but two were killed by a mysterious gas pumped into the theater by security forces in an attempt to incapacitate the 50 or so Chechens holding more than 750 hostage, before Russian forces stormed in.
		Troops stormed the theater after using the mystery gas to stop the “suicide squad” detonating explosives strapped to their bodies and rigged throughout the building.
	badgerherald.com /news/2002/10/29/russia_buries_siege_.php (935 words)

	Dubrovka Theater Siege - MN-FILES - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The siege began at about 9 p.m., when a blast was heard near the building and witnesses reported sounds of gunfire.
		Moscow has increasingly become a target of terrorist attacks, allegedly linked to militants who continue to press for Chechen independence from the Russian Federation.
		Moscow has continuously denied four Israeli nationals convicted in Russia permission to serve their terms at home unless Israel extradites Jewish Russian-born entrepreneur Leonid Nevzlin, once the second-in-command of Yukos and business partner of the jailed Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Yedioth Ahronoth reports.
	www.mosnews.com /mn-files/dubrovka.shtml (1083 words)

	TIME.com Print Page: World -- Behind the Moscow Theater Siege (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Although President Vladimir Putin immediately linked the siege with the global war on terrorism, and charged that the action was planned in a "foreign terrorist center," its roots more likely lie in a long-established tradition among Chechen insurgents of mounting dramatic terror strikes aimed at tilting the balance of power back in their favor.
		The latest siege is reminiscent of the hostage drama at Budennovsk in 1995, when Chechen rebels led by Shamil Basayev seized a Russian hospital in order, he later said, to make Russians suffer the way Chechens had suffered.
		This time, however, things are different: The man in charge in Moscow has built his presidency in no small part on his tough handling of the Chechen insurgency; and the rebels mounting this siege are of a younger, more militant generation less inclined to negotiate.
	www.time.com /time/world/printout/0,8816,383909,00.html (961 words)

	Chechnya & Putin - Johnson's Russia List 10-30-02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin's tough line on ending the Moscow theater siege has boosted his already high standing, at least for the moment.
		Even before the Moscow theater siege, Putin's popularity rating was running at more than 70 percent and it was assumed he would sail through the 2004 presidential election.
		He said the end of the siege also buoyed the position of the FSB domestic security service, which he saw as backing the reforms that the investment community wants Putin to continue pushing through.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/6521-3.cfm (796 words)

	CNN.com - Russian troops storm Moscow theater - Oct. 25, 2002
		Security forces early Saturday stormed a theater where Chechen rebels were holding some 700 hostages and regained control of the building, Russian officials said.
		Russian troops and security forces were seen running, armored personnel carriers and trucks began moving in the streets around the theater, according to observers on the scene.
		During the siege, several influential officials, including a former Russian prime minister, entered the theater complex for talks with the hostage-takers.
	www.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/10/25/moscow.siege/index.html (899 words)

	Show Must Go on for Moscow Siege Theater Cast
		Sunday's final benefit concert in early December, entitled "Nord-Ost, we are with you!," was held in Moscow's Rossiya hotel instead of the original venue, which was damaged in the siege.
		All but two of the hostages who died in the siege were killed by the gas, 41 rebels also died.
		But after the hostage siege, the organizers decided to dedicate the performances to the victims of the attack, which took place in the heart of Moscow.
	www.pacosvillage.com /articles/archives/Jan2003/moscow.htm (514 words)

	On the Media
		BOB GARFIELD: This week marked the anniversary of the siege by Chechnyan terrorists of the Moscow Theater, an episode that ended with the death of all of the terrorists and 129 hostages, most by anesthetic gas pumped into the theater by the Russian security services.
		It was simply a case that over the hours and hours of the siege, they understood that these women had basically been hoodwinked or hoodwinked themselves or were just so desperate that they seemed to have no other course of action, and naturally they felt a degree of understanding for them.
		BOB GARFIELD: And yielding this chilling moment at the end of the film where one of the Russian hostages considers the question for a moment and decides that had her son died, would she have done the same thing to exact revenge against the Chechans, and the answer she came up with was-- yeah.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_102403_moscow.html (1120 words)

	Moscow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moscow also remains a major economic center and is home to a large number of billionaires; it is perennially considered one of the most expensive cities for expatriate employees in the world.
		Despite the siege and the bombings, the construction of Moscow's metro system, which began in the early 1930s, continued through the war and by the end of the war several new metro lines were opened.
		Moscow is home to a number of military airports, including airport Chkalovskiy serving the Russian space program; airport Ramenskoye is mostly used by Russian Ministry of Extraordinary Situations for resque flights; Kubinka military airfield, Monino Airfield housing the Central Air Force Museum; and the maintenance facility of Chernoi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moscow (7739 words)

	ABC News: Moscow Siege Anniversary Is Observed
		Hundreds of mourners gathered Thursday for a memorial ceremony outside the Moscow theatre seized by Chechen rebels four years ago this week.
		Forty-one rebels and 130 victims were killed in the three-day siege, by far most on the last day when security forces pumped gas into the building to knock out the attackers, then stormed the theatre.
		MOSCOW Oct 26, 2006 (AP)— Hundreds of mourners held a memorial Thursday for the 130 people killed after Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theater four years ago this week, laying flowers and releasing balloons in the air.
	www.abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2607956 (443 words)

	CNN.com - Russia: Extradite Chechen rebels - Sep 9, 2004
		Chechnya's separatist militants are being blamed for a string of recent terrorist attacks in Russia, including the deadly siege at a school in Beslan.
		He is wanted by Moscow to face charges ranging from murder and torture to grievous bodily harm allegedly committed in Chechnya between 1995 and 2000.
		The militants took about 1,200 hostages in the 48-hour siege at the school that ended with the deaths of at least 335 hostages, mostly children.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/09/09/russia.siege (559 words)

	The Moscow Theater Siege (November 6, 2002)
		The speed with which the Bush administration and the US press have accepted the explanations of Putin and the Russian military for the deaths of 119 hostages in the raid on a Moscow theater is appalling.
		At 2 AM on the morning of October 26, one of the male hostages cracked under pressure and tried to attack an armed Chechen woman; he was shot in the eye and another hostage was seriously wounded.
		It's easier, instead, to reprint Russian assertions that the Moscow theater siege was their September 11th, while overlooking how Russia's assault on Chechnya is similar to Saddam Hussein's repression of Kurdish rebels in Iraq.
	eatthestate.org /07-05/MoscowTheaterSiege.htm (1103 words)

	Moscow Theatre Stand-Off
		Moscow Hostage relatives await news (Oct 27, 2002)
		Siege gas 'was morphine spray' (Oct 29, 2002)
		Siege: The physcial and mental stress (Oct 24, 2002)
	www.freedomfiles.org /archives/moscowtheatre.htm (612 words)

	RIA Novosti - Society - Russian prosecutors have video of gunmen's preparations for Moscow theater siege
		Moscow seeks to retain positions in Turkmen gas sector
		Nikolai Shepel, the deputy prosecutor general, said an arms cache discovered on June 22 in Ingushetia (North Caucasus) also contained an archive that is thought to have belonged to Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev.
		Shepel said the cassettes would help investigators uncover the reasons behind and the circumstances of the attack on the theater and other attacks that were planned but not carried out.
	en.rian.ru /society/20050630/40820898.html (328 words)

	Russian Rescue Operation Questioned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		MOSCOW -- All but one of the 118 hostages so far confirmed dead in the Moscow theater siege died of gas poisoning, the city's top medical examiner said Sunday.
		Moscow's chief anesthesiologist Yevgeny Yevdokimov told reporters the substance used to sedate the hostages and their captors was a "narcotic, which applied in larger doses causes changes [to] the main functions of [the] human body."
		Belarussian Lyudmila Bogacheva, 55, was in Moscow to visit her son, while Natalya Zhirova was from the Netherlands, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2002/10/27/145809.shtml (884 words)

	Global Vision News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The only Chechen leader actually elected by the Chechen people is Aslan Maskhadov, and Moscow now treats him as persona non grata, alleging that he gave the OK for October's theater seige.
		Moscow was quick to blame Maskhadov for Friday's attack as well, but for his part, Maskhadov has denied involvement in attacks against civilian targets.
		Both sides are now taking pages from the Israel-Palestine conflict: Moscow carries out extra-judicial executions (although by small groups of soldiers at night) and has even demolished the house of one of the militants involved in the Moscow theater standoff.
	www.gvnews.net /html/Crisis/alert150.html (1112 words)

	NucNews - October 28, 2002
		A total of 118 hostages were known to have died since the Muslims stormed the theater: 116 from the effects of the gas, one young woman shot early in the standoff and one hostage shot Saturday morning shortly before the rescue raid.
		MOSCOW (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin said Monday he will give the military broader power to strike against suspected terrorists "where ever they may be" in response to a three-day hostage siege at a Moscow theater that left at least 118 captives dead after a rescue operation.
		MOSCOW, Oct. 27 -- The gas that Russian authorities pumped into a theater to knock out Chechen guerrillas during a pre-dawn commando raid Saturday killed at least 115 of the hostages in a tragic climax to the siege, Moscow's chief medical officer disclosed today.
	nucnews.net /nucnews/2002nn/0210nn/021028nn.htm (21584 words)

	The Greatest Jeneration - Al Queda-linked Chechen terrorists are busy, too
		The seizure began after a ceremony marking the first day of the Russian school year, reports said, when it was likely that many parents had accompanied their children to class.
		Both the school attack and the Moscow bombing appeared to be the work of Chechen rebels or their sympathizers, but there was no evidence of any direct link.
		Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov told reporters near the Rizhskaya subway stop in northern Moscow that the female bomber was walking toward the station but saw two police officers stationed there, turned around "and decided to destroy herself in a crowd of people."
	www.greatestjeneration.com /archives/002007.php (682 words)

	Breaking News English - Chechen rebels attack Russian city (Oct 14, 2005)
		Moscow responded quickly and used massive force to fight the rebels.
		It also carried out the Moscow theater siege, which saw 130 citizens die in 2002, and the Beslan hostage crisis, in which 344 civilians died in 2004.
		It also _________ ____ the Moscow theater siege, which saw 130 citizens die in 2002, and the Beslan hostage _______, in which 344 civilians died in 2004.
	www.breakingnewsenglish.com /0510/051014-chechnya-e.html (1730 words)

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