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To: Skywatcher who wrote (16122)	12/5/2003 11:16:33 AM
From: Bucky Katt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 48463

Dozens Killed in Suicide Bombing Aboard Russian Train MOSCOW, Dec. 5 — A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a crowded commuter train in southern Russia today, killing at least 40 people in what President Vladimir V. Putin denounced as a terrorist act intended to disrupt parliamentary elections here this weekend. The explosion, which occurred at 7:42 a.m., wrenched apart the second carriage of the train only moments after it left the station in Yessentuki, near the foothills of the Caucasus, not far from Chechnya. The force of the bomb, which one official estimated to contain more than 20 pounds of plastic explosives, hurled bodies and body parts dozens of yards from the carriage. More than 150 other passengers, many of them students on their way to school in the resort city of Mineralniye Vodi, were wounded, some of them gravely. Officials warned that the death toll could rise higher. "The crime committed this morning also says that the international terrorism that has launched a challenge to many countries of the world continues to remain a serious threat today for our country as well," Mr. Putin said in his remarks today. "It is a cruel, cunning, dangerous enemy. First of all, it is the innocent people who suffer from its crimes." In an interview at the Federal Security Service's headquarters on Lubyanka Square, Mr. Ignatchenko said that intelligence reports suggested that separatist fighters in Chechnya continued to receive financial support from abroad, including Islamic charities in Saudi Arabia. He cited evidence of a $3 million payment in March that may have bankrolled the wave of attacks over the summer. "Many cannot read," he added. "Many cannot speak Russian, but they know very well how to disassemble a Kalashnikov and how to set up a mine."