At least one bomb blast on a subway train in St. Petersburg, Russia, killed an estimated 10 people and wounded as many as 50 more Monday, Russian officials said, in what President Vladimir Putin called a possible act of terror.

One of the blasts came from a device that appeared to be filled with shrapnel, Sky News reported. Putin said investigators were looking into all possible causes. Russia's Fontanka newspaper reported that an unexploded device turned up at a different subway station as crews worked to deactivate it.

The train was traveling between two stations in the center of the city, investigators said. Photos and video from the Sennaya Ploshchad station appeared to show wounded victims on the smoke-filled platform, and a train car with a door blown out. Frantic commuters reached out through the doors and windows, shouting, "Call an ambulance!"

Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. Andrei Kibitov, spokesman for the St. Petersburg governor, told Russian television 10 people were killed and 50 injured.

"People were bleeding, their hair burned," a witness told Russia's Life News. "My girlfriend was in the next car that exploded. She said that he began to shake. When she came out, she saw that people were mutilated."

Trains and train stations have been common targets for terrorist attacks in Russia and throughout much of Europe, analysts point out. In 2009, a bomb exploded on a high-speed train heading from Moscow to St. Petersburg, killing 27 people.

Crews closed all subway stations in St. Petersburg Monday and evacuated passengers, administration officials said. Ambulances and other medical teams rushed to the scene.

Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee vowed to tighten security at all of the country's critical transportation centers.

"The causes are not clear, it's too early. We will look at all possible causes, terrorism as well as common crime," Putin responded.

The Russian president offered condolences to the families of the victims. He was visiting the city Monday and held talks with the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2...g-train-station.html

With all the security we have centered around air travel, it's amazing that there is virtually none for intra-city travel. If someone were to target a metro rail car in the U.S. it would be just as, if not more, devastating.

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Originally posted by Orguss:
With all the security we have centered around air travel, it's amazing that there is virtually none for intra-city travel. If someone were to target a metro rail car in the U.S. it would be just as, if not more, devastating.

Unless we learn to profile and target, there will always be a vulnerability these islamo-fascists can exploit. Modern societies would have to eschew liberty and adopt a full on police State to continue a PC based security. Look at air travel. What a colossal fustercluck. And it continues to get more fusterclucky as time passes. Imagine every aspect of your life like that.

Without doubt a human tragedy.

I wonder how intense Putin's response will be.

Is it not about time that governments finally start dealing with these sub-humans?

As in do the damned work to ID them, locate them, and kill them.

Wonder how long it will be before this shit starts here. We have "accepted" millions of people into this country without any screening.

I would be shocked to find that there were no islamic terrorists in this country.

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Originally posted by Elk Hunter:
Without doubt a human tragedy.

I wonder how intense Putin's response will be.

Is it not about time that governments finally start dealing with these sub-humans?.

The Soviets are not prone to the Liberal PC viewpoints that plague the US. The response will be proper, prompt and no doubt very violent.

I will point out that this could be a false flag attack ordered by Putin. He HAS done this before in order to deflect publicity from his failures.

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Originally posted by BBMW:
I will point out that this could be a false flag attack ordered by Putin. He HAS done this before in order to deflect publicity from his failures.

I'd say Most Probably a False Flag event... But hey, what would I know...

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Originally posted by Longbow_06:

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Originally posted by BBMW:
I will point out that this could be a false flag attack ordered by Putin. He HAS done this before in order to deflect publicity from his failures.

I'd say Most Probably a False Flag event... But hey, what would I know...

Yep. And in other news, 911 was an inside job, we never landed on the moon, and the Earth is flat.

Seriously, 99.9% of the time when it smells like Mohammedan terrorism, it is Mohammedan terrorism. Why do so many people look at these and say, "Maybe this time it was false flag or maybe this time it was the damned Amish.

I'd place an even money bet that within a week some bearded freak will come out and claim responsibility. Any takers?

It probably was Muslim terrorism. However if you remember the 5 apartment building bombings in Moscow, from years ago, that was most definitely done by the KGB. Right after that Putin came to power, ostensibly to protect Russian citizens from Chechen rebels.

Numerous Russian journalists investigating the apartment blasts have been killed off. One of them was Alexander Litvinenko, killed by drinking plutonium laced tea in a London coffee shop. With Putin, anything is possible.

This isn't a random conspiracy theory. His involvement in the bombings in pretty well documented.

http://www.nationalreview.com/...as-putin-responsible

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Originally posted by Fenris:

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Originally posted by Longbow_06:

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Originally posted by BBMW:
I will point out that this could be a false flag attack ordered by Putin. He HAS done this before in order to deflect publicity from his failures.

I'd say Most Probably a False Flag event... But hey, what would I know...

Yep. And in other news, 911 was an inside job, we never landed on the moon, and the Earth is flat.

Seriously, 99.9% of the time when it smells like Mohammedan terrorism, it is Mohammedan terrorism. Why do so many people look at these and say, "Maybe this time it was false flag or maybe this time it was the damned Amish.

I'd place an even money bet that within a week some bearded freak will come out and claim responsibility. Any takers?

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Originally posted by Fenris:
Yep. And in other news, 911 was an inside job, we never landed on the moon, and the Earth is flat.

Yeah, except that the Russians under Putin did in fact plant and detonate explosives in Russia in order to justify Putin's invasion of Chechnya. Muslims? Could be. Putin? Could be.

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I'd place an even money bet that within a week some bearded freak will come out and claim responsibility. Any takers?

It would be worthless as a false flag if the KGB took responsibility, so your money is probably safe.

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fusterclucky

darthfusterclucky, even.

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Originally posted by Orguss:
With all the security we have centered around air travel, it's amazing that there is virtually none for intra-city travel. If someone were to target a metro rail car in the U.S. it would be just as, if not more, devastating.

It's not like the TSA hasn't tried to get their hooks into this...

http://www.breitbart.com/londo...ok&utm_medium=social

Saint Petersburg Suicide Bomber Tied to Radical Islamists

Saint Petersburg
by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.4 Apr 20171,274


The suspected perpetrator of a suicide bombing in a St Petersburg subway station Monday had ties to radical Islamist groups, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
The Interfax report drew on a law enforcement source who also said that that an investigation of the blast scene suggested that a suicide bomber was responsible for the explosion that killed 14 people and injured 49 more.

Kyrgyzstan’s security service GKNB identified the suspected bomber as Akbarzhon Jalilov, a 22-year-old Kyrgyz-born Russian citizen. The GKNB also said that the Islamic State may have been involved in the terror attack.

Kyrgyzstan was a Soviet republic until it gained its independence in 1991. The mostly Muslim country with a population of some six million is a close political ally of Russia. Kyrgyzstan’s security services said they are “maintaining contact with the Russian secret service for further investigation.”

Not long after the bombing, Islamic State supporters began celebrating the attack on social media, although they have not yet claimed responsibility for the act.

One ISIS supporter claimed that the attacks were carried out in revenge for Russia’s backing of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s fight against ISIS and other rebel groups in Syria’s civil war.

The Islamic State recently published a poster showing a jihadi blowing up the Kremlin, accompanied by the message “kill them where you find them.”

Russia’s transport infrastructure has been repeatedly targeted by Islamist terror groups based in the North Caucasus over the past two decades.

In October, 2015, a bomb on board a civilian airliner travelling from Sharm el-Sheikh to Saint Petersburg killed 224 people, many of them Russians on holiday.

On that occasion, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for that attack, calling it retaliation for Russia’s military intervention in Syria.

Well I'll be danged, another, ummm, Oriental?

^^^^^^^^
Nah. It's those dang Southern Baptist Orthodox Amish. The EXTREME radicals...

You know where you can shove that false flag?

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You know where you can shove that false flag?

dang dude, who took the gem out of your donut?

OK, since we're going to start with the conspiracy theories, this is locked. This subject is now off the table for discussion in this forum.

Gentlemen, I cannot stress to you enough how very unwelcome these conspiracy theories are in this forum and I assure you that this is not going to change here, not as long as I run the place.

Everyone here needs to understand that when you start with the conspiracy theories, I'm going to shut down the discussion.

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