Today, January 24, 2011, in Moscow, Russia, there was a suicide bombing that killed at least 35 people and wounded 180 people. This bombing was at Moscow's busiest airport Domodedovo. This bombing turned the airport into a smoky, blood splattered hall of dismembered bodies, scared survivors, and abandoned suitcases. There has been no one blamed for the bombing but Russia suspects that it was the Islamic militants in the southern part of Russia, Chechnya. They think that it was the Islamic because in March 2010 they bombed Moscow's subway system that caused forty deaths. After the attack the president Dmitry Medvedev immediately declared it a terrorist attack and tightened the security on Moscow's other two commercial airports and Moscow's other key facilities. This is the air port's second time being involved in a terrorist attack because in 2004 two female suicide bombers got through the lax security there, got two tickets illegally, and boarded a plane. Once they were on the plane they and were in the air, they blew it up killing 90 people. For the people that were injured in the bombing, Vladimir Putin ordered the health minister to send her deputies to the hospitals to make sure they wounded were getting the care they needed. Back here in the United States, Barack Obama called the catastrophe an "outrageous act of terrorism" and assured Dmitry Medvedev that he has the United States full support. Also, British Prime Minister David Cameron gave Russia his full support. I think that Russia feels the same way we did when we had 9/11 and I feel for them. If this were to happen in the United States I really don't know what our government would do. Would we declare war? Look past it? Or would we do the same Russia did? I hope that this never happens to us and that our security at the airports is on the top of its game.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/terror-suspected-in-deadly-moscow-bombing-23951084
This is a link to see the news of the bombing.
This is the bombing the two women did.
This is the bombing from today.
Sources:
http://news.yahoo.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUfv3D14ZcE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuzNoYa4jQY
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