Up to 700 people believed to be held hostage in Moscow

[DRoseDARs]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=564&ncid=564&e=1&u=/nm/russia_theatre_hostage_dc

Up to 30 Armed Men Seize Moscow Theater
8 minutes ago

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Up to 30 gunmen, seized a Moscow theater staging a musical late Wednesday, firing shots in the air and holding a number of people hostage, police and news agencies said.



Interfax news agency, one of whose reporters was in the theater at the time, said the gunmen had let members of the audience make phone calls and allowed children to be released.


Muslim members of the audience attending the production of "North-East" were also allowed to leave, Interfax said. Police said they had as yet received no demands from the gunmen. Reports put the number of gunmen in the theater between 20 and 30.


Elite police teams rushed to the scene but there were no initial reports of casualties. Police said they believed up to 700 people were attending the show but exact numbers remained unclear.


The Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) had been informed of the incident, which happened on the eve of his official visit to Europe.

[Eli]

Nothing the Spetznaz cant handle...

[Eli]

Hehe.

Now it's our turn to call relatives in Russia and check whether they're fine.

I hope this will teach them how annoying it is having them calling us after every blast.

[DinoDoc]

Does that mean we can expect less news reports from you Eli?

[Az]

Sure hope the alpha will get the *******s, btw.

[Pavlov]

This will end in a nasty way, for someone.

[N. Machiavelli]

True enough. Regardless, I hope they are able to get the hostages out unharmed.

[Kassiopeia]

Ack. What I've heard of the Russian SORB or OMON or whatever that special forces unit was... bodies. Lots of them.

[Arrian]

Holy ****! No wonder the Moscow Times website just jammed up on me! Thanks for the news. Here's hoping none of the hostages die.

-Arrian

[Andrew1999]

My dad has been trying for a while to persuade someone to go to Moscow on a student or teacher exchange. He hasn't been having much success for some reason...

[JtheJackal]

Thanks for more info, the Breaking News Info on CNN wasn't giving me much information

[Arrian]

The reuters article I saw indicates that the hostage-takers are demanding an end to the war in Chechnya (sp). Accordingly to someone in the threatre on a cell phone, the gunmen were planting mines of some sort.

-Arrian

[trickey]

Damn thats is freaking crazy....cant even feel safe going to a theater anymore..

[Sirotnikov]

But they are do gooder!!!


Team Alpha are hell's fukkaz. I can't promise any of the 1000 people held up there will survive, but 99% of team Alpha will, and 99% of the terrorists will be ready to hang dry.


Btw, how would you think Sayeret Matkal / Duvdevan/ Gideonim / Yamam would handle this?

[Nubclear]

!!!!!!!

My wife is in moscow right now!!!