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To: FaultLine who started this subject	10/23/2002 4:52:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Chechens holding crowded Moscow theater audience hostage. 700 people inside. abcnews.go.com >>Armed men entered a crowded Moscow theater Wednesday and took the audience hostage, the Federal Security Service said. Gunshots were fired at one point and people in the audience said the gunmen were from Chechnya and demanded an end to Russia's war in the breakaway republic. The theater, a former Soviet-era House of Culture that belonged a ball-bearing plant, was staging a performance of the musical "Nord-Ost," one of the Russian capital's most popular productions. ITAR-Tass reported that the armed men inside the theater were laying mines. The report was based on a spectator who was calling the police emergency number, but it could not be confirmed. TV6 television news quoted spectators inside as saying the attackers said they had mines on their bodies and would blow themselves up if Russian security forces tried to storm the building. In an interview with the The Echo of Moscow radio station, a boy who had been released said the armed men were from the Caucasus, talked in one of the languages of southern Russia and demanded the end to Russia's war against Chechnya. The boy did not give his name. A woman who had somehow made her way out of the theater said in an interview broadcast live on Russia's NTV television that men wearing camouflage dress went on stage, fired in the air and said:``Don't you understand what's going on. We are Chechens. We are not hiding it."<< jpost.com This one ends badly. Those poor people.

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