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. >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:314297 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
