Quote Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
MOSCOW, Aug. 14 â?? A bomb set along railroad tracks exploded and derailed a passenger train Monday night between Moscow and St. Petersburg, wounding scores of passengers and shutting down service on one of Russiaâ??s busiest rail lines.

No one was killed, but at least six people were seriously wounded, and the authorities suggested that passengers had been spared in part by luck.

The bomb exploded as the train was traveling near a section of track that crosses a bridge 60 feet above a road, but the train cleared the bridge before it derailed, and the cars slid onto their sides without falling down the slope or onto the road below.

At least 60 of the more than 230 people on board the train were wounded, the authorities said. One railway official said on national television that 90 people had been treated.

No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but the authorities were treating it as a probable act of terrorism. By nightfall on Tuesday, investigators had made composite sketches of two men seen near the tracks before the blast.

The authorities described the bomb as a homemade device that weighed nearly five pounds, but released few other details because of their investigation.

There were conflicting reports about how the bomb was detonated. One Russian official said it was detonated by a spotter using a wire; another said the bomb exploded when the train made contact with it.

Russia has suffered many terrorist attacks since the mid-1990s, often by Chechen separatists and Islamic militants from other regions in the Caucasus who have links to them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/wo...e/15train.html

Sounds like a quagmire.......

Have a good one!:s4:
Well, maybe the russians have been mistreating their satellite countries for years, charging too much for fuel and electricity, cutting off supplies when they don't tow the mark just your basic tyrannical government. If you were a chechen, you wouldn't want to fuck up a few ruskies? Puleeeze! It would be your civic duty as a chechen to fight russia. When those cluster bombs go off in your nieghborhood or that napalm falls on your block, you wouldn't be pissed, come on.