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August 27, 2004
Terror Attack Confirmed in Rostov Crash

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From the AFP via The Australian :
At least one of the two Russian plane crashes that killed some 90 people this week was the result of a terrorist attack, the top Russian security service spokesman said Friday.

"According to our initial investigation, at least one of the air crashes, the one in the Rostov region, came as a result of a terror attack," spokesman Sergei Ignatchenko told ITAR-TASS news agency.

His comments came Friday after investigators said they had found traces of explosive material in the wreckage of one of the two planes that crashed in southern Russia.

Posted by Alan Brain at August 27, 2004 06:31 AM | TrackBack
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FYI - AP feed from Yahoo


BREAKING - UPDATE - Explosives Found in Russian Jet Wreckage


Yahoo/AP

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040827/ap_on_re_eu/russia_plane_crash&cid=518&ncid=716[
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Explosives Found in Russian Jet Wreckage


MOSCOW - Traces of explosives have been found in the wreckage of one of two Russian airliners that crashed nearly simultaneously earlier this week, the Federal Security Service said Friday, a day after a top official acknowledged that terrorism was most likely behind the crashes. . .

See also UPDATE at:

http://www.hspig.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1325
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Ron Wright, Moderator
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Posted by: Ron Wrght [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 27, 2004 09:52 AM

Look up hexogen and where it comes from.

This case is stranger than it first appears.

Posted by: Don [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 27, 2004 03:46 PM

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