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To: Sully- who wrote (19160)	12/9/2003 4:36:35 AM
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Moscow Homicide Bombing Kills Five Tuesday, December 09, 2003 MOSCOW — A female homicide bomber struck near Moscow's (search) Red Square on Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring 13 according to a Russian News agency. ITAR-Tass news agency said the blast took place on the capital's main shopping street, Tverskaya (search), near the National Hotel, which sits on a corner diagonally across from a gate leading into Red Square and the Kremlin (search), said Natalia Aliseyenko of the Moscow police. Ten people were treated on the spot and released, ITAR-Tass said. Two witnesses told Russian state television that they had their backs to the blast and heard a huge bang shortly before 11 a.m. local time. "We felt a kind of whoosh, heard a bang, and saw smoke," said one, who was not identified. Windows on the first and second floor of the swank hotel were shattered, she said. Russian state television showed footage of the broken windows, and the shriek of car alarms could be heard. Russians have been jittery about terrorist acts since a series of explosions in Moscow and southern Russia blamed on Chechen rebels. Forty-four people were killed when a homicide bomber attacked a train in southern Russia last week. Altogether, close to 300 people have been killed in Russia in bombings and other attacks blamed on Chechens over the past year. The deadly bombings of the past year -- and a Chechen rebel hostage-taking raid on a Moscow theater in October 2002 -- have exposed the inability of Russian authorities to protect against homicide attacks. A homicide truck-bomb attack last December destroyed the headquarters of Chechnya's Moscow-backed government and killed 72 people, and another killed 60 at a government compound in the region in May. Later that month, a woman blew herself up at a religious ceremony, killing at least 18 people. In June, a female homicide attacker detonated a bomb near a bus carrying soldiers and civilians to a military airfield in Mozdok, a major staging point for Russian troops in Chechnya, killing at least 16 people, and the 50 killed in a truck-bomb attack on a military hospital in Mozdok in August included soldiers wounded in Chechnya. The Associated Press contributed to this report. foxnews.com