Russia Blames Terrorism for Downed Plane
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MOSCOW - Russian officials said Friday they detected traces of a high explosive in the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners, branding it the work of terrorists, while an Islamic group claimed its suicide attackers brought down both planes because of the war in Chechnya.    At least one crash was "the result of a terrorist act," a spokesman for the Federal Security Service, Sergei Ignatchenko, told the ITAR-Tass news agency...
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MOSCOW  - Russian officials declared Friday that a terrorist act downed one of the two planes in this week's near simultaneous crashes after the wreckage revealed traces of a high explosive used in past attacks blamed on Chechen separatists.
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MOSCOW - After days of deflecting a terrorism link, Russia said yesterday terrorists were behind a passenger jet crash as an Islamic group proclaiming support for separatists in Chechnya claimed it had downed that and another plane.
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EXPLOSIVES have been found in the wreckage of one of the two Russian airliners that crashed near-simultaneously this week. The confirmation that at least one of the aircraft was brought down by a terrorist
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One of two Russian airliners that crashed nearly simultaneously was brought down by a terrorist act, officials said Friday, after finding traces of explosives in the plane's wreckage. A Web site connected to Islamic militants claimed the action was connected to Russia's fight against Chechen separatists.
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Russian officials declared Friday that a terrorist act downed one of the two planes in this week&#39;s near simultaneous crashes after the wreckage revealed traces of a high explosive used in past attacks blamed on Chechen separatists.
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MOSCOW - A top Russian official acknowledged on Thursday what many citizens already suspected - that terrorism was the most likely cause of two jetliners crashing minutes apart, a feeling reflected in a newspaper headline warning that "Russia now has a Sept. 11."   Just a day after officials stressed there were many possibilities besides terrorism, presidential envoy Vladimir Yakovlev told Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency that the main theory "all the same remains terrorism."   He said the planes' flight recorders had not provided any clues to the disaster...
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A claim of responsibility for the downing of two Russian planes appeared on a Web site known for militant Muslim comment Friday. The statement, which accused Russians of
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Russian authorities said Wednesday they had not ruled out terrorism as they investigated what caused two commercial airliners to crash within minutes of each other, killing 89 people.
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A widely-suspected terrorist connection became an official claim when Russian authorities said they found traces of explosives in the wreckage of one of two passenger jets that crashed almost simultaneously, killing all 90 people on board.
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BUCHALKI, Russia - Russian investigators labored Wednesday to determine whether terrorism caused the near-simultaneous crashes of two jetliners, killing all 89 people aboard and spreading anxieties about a possible bloody escalation of the Chechen conflict.    Officials stressed that no evidence of a terrorist attack had yet been found among charred wreckage and said they were looking at other possibilities like bad fuel, equipment malfunction and human error...
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MOSCOW- Russian officials said Friday they detected traces of a high explosive in the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners, branding it the work of terrorists, while an Islamic group claimed its suicide attackers brought down both planes because of
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Russia said Friday terrorists were behind a passenger jet crash, as an Islamic group vowing support for Chechen rebels claimed responsibility for that attack and the downing of another airliner on Tuesday.
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Two Russian passenger planes that  crashed almost simultaneously last week killing 90 people were  blown up in a "terrorist attack" but not by hijackers,  investigators said Monday.
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MOSCOW - Russian airlines will be required to document passengers more thoroughly following this week's twin plane crashes, a news agency reported Saturday, as the discovery of explosives stoked speculation that the disasters were linked to bloodshed in Chechnya.    The Federal Security Service, or FSB, declared at least one of the crashes an act of terrorism Friday after investigators found traces of the high explosive hexogen in the wreckage of a Tu-154 jet that crashed in southern Russia...
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MOSCOW - A top Russian official acknowledged Thursday what many citizens already suspected - that terrorism was the most likely cause of two jetliners crashing minutes apart, a feeling reflected in a newspaper headline warning that "Russia now has a Sept. 11."   A day after officials stressed there were many possibilities besides terrorism, presidential envoy Vladimir Yakovlev told Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency that the main theory "all the same remains terrorism."   Yakovlev said the planes' flight recorders provide no clues to the disaster...
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MOSCOW : Russia said terrorists were behind a passenger jet crash as an Islamic group proclaiming support for rebels in Chechnya claimed responsibility for the downing of that and another plane.