Interviews with (separate) officials on the ground over there:

1) identification based on characteristics of bomber
(not sure what that means)

2) One bomb partially unexploded, clear signs of chechnyan origin

fwiw

source: BBC world news, KUSP

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Jerry Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Going into the religion or motivation of the bombers, with only onsite
> SPECULATION that they were Chechen in the first place would be
> irresponsible.
>
> Over the next few hours, as actual FACTS are discovered and reported, then
> such clarifications might make sense.
>
> But to lay out a history of the Chechnya conflict and its motivations,
> religious, nationalistic and cultural, would make no sense. Yet.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> The Chechen rebels have Islamic roots, certainly, but what about all
>> the other places that have broken away/tried to break away from Russia
>> since the collapse of the USSR? Is there something about Chechen that
>> makes it especially relevant to mention that it is Muslim versus, say,
>> South Ossetia which is Christian?
>>
>> Judah
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > That is not good reporting, it is sh!t reporting. They talk about the
>> > Chechen conflict but fail to note that Chechen rebels have Islamic
>> > fundamentalist elements at their roots. Context, anyone?
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Jerry Johnson  wrote:
>> >>
>> >> LOL.
>> >>
>> >> That is called _good reporting_!
>> >>
>> >> It may be hard to recognize in this day and age, but the reporters
>> should
>> >> _never_ get ahead of the facts.
>> >>
>> >> Speculation about the religion of the bombers, before they know who they
>> >> are, is not the way it should be done.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
> 

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