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To: ild who wrote (11267)	9/1/2004 3:14:46 PM
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Russia's Toll of Terror September 1, 2004 2:18 p.m. A list of incidents blamed on terrorists in Russia since October 2002: 2004 Sept. 1: More than a dozen attackers carrying guns and reportedly wrapped in suicide-bomb belts seize a school in the Russian region of North Ossetia, taking hundreds of hostages, including some 200 children. August 31: Car blows up outside a Moscow subway stop, killing nine people. Russia's Federal Security Services blame a female suicide bomber. August 24: Two airliners crash within minutes of each other after taking off from the same airport, killing a total of 90 people. Officials say explosive traces were found in the wreckage. President Vladimir Putin calls the crashes terrorist acts. May 9: A bomb rips through a stadium in the Chechen capital, Grozny, during a Victory Day ceremony. Provincial President Akhmad Kadyrov, the Kremlin's point man for efforts to control separatist violence in the war-wracked region, is killed, along with up to 24 other people. A Chechen warlord claims responsibility. Feb. 6: Explosion rips through a subway car in the Moscow metro during rush hour, killing 41 people. Authorities suspect a terrorist attack. 2003 Dec. 9: Suicide bomber blows herself up outside Moscow's National Hotel, across from the Kremlin and Red Square, killing five bystanders. Dec. 5: Suicide bombing on commuter train in southern Russia kills 44 people. President Putin condemns the attack as bid to destabilize the country two days before parliamentary elections. Sept. 16: Two suicide bombers drive a truck laden with explosives into a government security-services building near Chechnya, killing three people and injuring 25. Aug. 1: Suicide bomber rams a truck filled with explosives into a military hospital near Chechnya, killing 50 people, including Russian troops wounded in Chechnya. July 10: Russian security agent dies in Moscow while attempting to defuse a bomb that a woman had tried to carry into a cafe on central Moscow's main street. July 5: Double suicide bombing at a Moscow rock concert kills the female attackers and 15 other people. June 5: Female suicide attacker detonates 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. May 14: Woman blows up explosives strapped to her waist in crowd of thousands of Muslim pilgrims, killing at least 18 people in an apparent attempt on the life of Chechnya's Moscow-backed chief administrator, Akhmad Kadyrov, the region's then president. May 12: Suicide truck-bomb attack kills at least 60 people at a government compound in northern Chechnya. April 3: Passenger bus hits remote-controlled land mine in the Chechen capital, killing at least eight people. 2002 Dec. 27: Suicide truck-bomb attack destroys headquarters of Chechnya's Moscow-backed government, killing 72 people. Oct. 25: Chechen rebels took about 800 people hostage in a Moscow theater, demanding that Russian troops withdraw from Chechnya. All 41 attackers were shot and 129 hostages died, most of them succumbing to the gas Russian special forces used when they stormed the theater. Source: Associated Press