Russia Reports Evidence of Terror Attack
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The Russian government abruptly shifted gears Friday and concluded that at least one of the two planes that fell out of the sky almost simultaneously this week was blown up
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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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A list of terror-related explosions in Russia since December 2002:
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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.
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Russian investigators have finally admitted that terrorists were almost certainly responsible for the destruction of the two passenger planes which crashed on Tuesday, five days before the Chechen presidential election.
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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.
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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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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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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 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 that &quot;Russia now has a Sept.
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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin linked the downing last week of two passenger airliners to Al-Qaeda and said this proved the presence of organized international terrorism on Russian soil.
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Russia's security services said on Friday they had found traces of explosives among the wreckage of one of two Russian planes which crashed within moments of each other, calling it a terrorist attack.
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MOSCOW - 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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MOSCOW - Officials said Saturday they had found traces of an explosive on the wreckage of the second of two Russian airliners that crashed just minutes apart earlier this week. That would indicate terrorists caused both aviation tragedies...
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The Russian authorities are treating the crash of one of the Tupolev airliners as a &quot;terrorist act&quot; - confirming many Russians&#39; suspicions that Tuesday&#39;s twin plane disaster was in no way a tragic freak accident.
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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 opened a criminal investigation as they looked into other causes like bad fuel, equipment malfunction and human error...