Top Russian Official: Plane Terror Likely
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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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Suspicions grew today that terrorists were to blame for the twin airline crashes, with a top official saying terrorism was the main theory and many Russians insisting the double disaster could not be explained by mere coincidence.
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Investigators pinned hope on black boxes  on Thursday to explain why two Russian planes crashed almost  simultaneously, killing at least 89 people and raising fears of  terrorism ahead of polls in rebel Chechnya.
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MOSCOW -- A top Russian official acknowledged yesterday 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 &quot;Russia now has a Sept. 11.&quot;
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Russia said Friday &quot;terrorists&quot; were behind a passenger jet crash, as an Islamic group vowing support for Chechnya rebels claimed responsibility for that attack and the
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Russia&#39;s security service said two passenger planes which crashed last week with the loss of 89 lives were destroyed by explosives, as Transport Minister Igor Levitin said there&#39;s no evidence the planes were hijacked.
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Russian officials accused terrorists Friday after the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners revealed traces of an explosive used in earlier attacks blamed on Chechen rebels, while
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MOSCOW Russian officials urged patience and calm Wednesday after two passenger jets crashed nearly simultaneously, and they emphasized that the causes for the crashes had not been found.
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Russia has armed planes with long-range missiles which could be used against terrorists, local media say.
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(CBS/AP) Russian officials said Friday that they had found traces of an explosive in the wreckage of one of two airliners that went down nearly simultaneously this week, as suspicion grew that the crashes were a terrorist act.
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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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Russian investigators labored Wednesday to determine whether terrorism caused the near-simultaneous crashes of two jetliners, killing all 89 people aboard and spreading anxieties
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A senior Russian official warned Wednesday that Moscow could put new missiles in western Russia if Washington pursues plans to build a missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland.
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Georgia is worried it will become the first place where Moscow will carry out its threat of preventive strikes against terrorists.
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Russian investigators labored Wednesday to determine whether terrorism caused the near-simultaneous crashes of two jetliners, killing all 89 people aboard
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MOSCOW - Russia&#39;s transportation minister, pointing to a &quot;black box&quot; recording from one of two planes that crashed minutes apart last week, said yesterday that there was no evidence of a hijacking attempt or any other disturbance before explosions aboard
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Sept. 6 issue - Russian officials confirmed what the rest of the world suspected: that terrorism was a likely cause of two nearly simultaneous crashes of airliners that took off from the same Moscow airport one night last week.