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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject10/23/2002 3:24:47 PM
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MOSCOW — Armed men took a theater audience hostage in Moscow on Wednesday, the Federal Security Service said.

The Soviet Palace of Art was holding a performance of the musical Nord-Ost (North-East), 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, one of approximately 700 people inside. She told them in a telephone call that the men fired automatic weapons into the air and were preventing the audience from leaving, the agency said.

According to Izvestiya newspaper, the 20 or so gunmen, some of whom are armed with automatic weapons, had allowed all members of the audience to make phone calls, and children and Muslim audience members were allowed to leave.

Police units were on their way to the scene,
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