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The Strata-Sphere provides background on an apparent terrorist attempt to derail a train in Russia. Speaking of which, The Coming Anarchy notices that one Russian terror group has already copied the Islamist tactic of beheading: resurgent Russian Nazis.It seems a terrorist tried to derail a high speed commuter train in Russia and dump it and its passengers over a bridge. The angle about dumping the train over the bridge can be found in this Russian news article (translated into reasonable English).According to the investigation, a homemade bomb with power capacity equivalent to 2 kg of TNT was set on the way to a bridge: it looks like the terrorist intended to make the train fall from the bridge, which could have resulted in numerous casualties. But the speed of the train, one of the most rapid on this rout, was about 200 km/h, so after the explosion happened, the train overshot the bridge and was derailed already after it.There are lots of possible responsible agents. This article notes it has been only a year since the Chechens had been on a terrorist rampage in Russia:There was no indication of who might have planted the bomb. Groups linked to an insurgency in Chechnya have carried out violent attacks in the past but have staged none outside southern Russia for at least a year.One could read that many ways - one of which is it was about time for another Chechen attack. One has to wonder about this incident and the calls from Chechen ally in London Boris Berezovsky to overthrow Putin’s government. It is well known the Po-210 victim in London last year, Alexander Litvinenko, was hailed as a martyr by Chechen terrorists due to his strong ties to their cause. I am not saying there is a link, but if Berezovsky needs to incite an uprising before next year’s elections he needs to start now.But while I am wildly speculating, one has to wonder what it is about bridges and terrorists this past week? We had the Minneapolis bridge collapse, without any clear reason for the failure. And now we see a bridge in China collapse. And in Iraq a bombing attack on a bridge (which is actually a common tactic of the terrorists there). Now a train-bomb near a bridge. Just noting this has been a bad week for bridges around the world.To read more go to:
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