St. Petersburg, a city of 5 million people, shut down its entire subway system after 11 people were killed and at least 45 others were wounded due to an explosion at Sennaya Square metro station. According to the Russian National Anti-Terror Committee, a homemade device filled with shrapnel detonated inside a train between two central hubs at about 2:40 pm.
The bomb went off after a train left Sennaya Ploshchad station, heading south for Tekhnologichesky Institut. A huge hole was blasted in the side of a carriage and the door blown off, with metal wreckage strewn across the platform. Passengers were seen hammering at the windows of one closed carriage after the train had pulled into the station.
Although the explosion happened in between the two stations the driver continued to Tekhnologichesky Institut anyway to enable victims to be helped more easily. Russia’s investigative committee said this decision may have helped prevent further losses. Minutes later another bomb, disguised as a fire extinguisher, was found at another city metro station, Ploshchad Vosstaniya.
Human remains examined at the scene suggested that the blast had been carried out by a suicide bomber. Officials called the blast, and the planting of a more powerful bomb that was later defused at a nearby station, an act of terrorism. “All the signs of a terrorist attack are there,” – said Viktor Ozerov, head of the security committee in the upper house of parliament.
Coincidently, at the time of the explosion, President Vladimir Putin was just outside Russia’s second city, meeting Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko at the Konstantin palace in Strelna. However, this is not the first time Russia’s transport infrastructure is being targeted. Previously attacks included the 2009 (27 deaths), 2010 (38 killed), 2011 (35 deaths) and 2013 (31 killed) bombings.
However, this is the first attack on Russia’s transport infrastructure since terror group ISIS declares war against the bear, thanks to Putin’s intervention in the Syrian Civil War to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It also happens that Russia has contributed the most fighters to ISIS from any non-Muslim majority country, surpassing even France.
While close to 7,000 radicalized Russians had left the country to join ISIS, so far the barbarian group hasn’t claimed responsibility for the latest terror attack. As ISIS celebrates the bombing, the attack could be done by Chechen separatists. The Russians have been waging wars with these separatists since the 19th century.
Regardless whether it was Chechen separatists or ISIS militants who carried out the terror attack in St. Petersburg, there’s a huge difference on how the Russian handles the bombing as compared to the West. The Americans, Germans or the French would try not to associate such attack on Islam or Muslims, not to mention protect the identity of suspects at all cost.
Even in the St. Petersburg attack, the liberal mainstream media from the West only disclosed the suspected bomber as someone from central Asia, without any other details. But not the Russia, who says that the suicide bomber is linked to “radical Islamic terrorist”, the same three magic words which former U.S. President Barack Obama has refused to use.
The Russian police has also described the suspect as a 23-year-old from Kyrgyzstan and released the CCTV images of the suicide bomber. One image shows a man in a red Parka jacket, wearing glasses and a dark green beanie hat and carrying a rucksack on his back. Earlier, Russian media released CCTV photos of a bearded suspect, who was wearing a long, black top and a hat.
The bearded man later walked into a police station and insisted he was innocent but was “targeted for looking Muslim”. The man was reportedly put under a lie-detector test. Obviously, unlike the West, there isn’t any human right or privacy consideration in the land of Kremlin. The Russian would disclose everything to force the suspects to surrender and do the explanation themselves.
President Vladimir Putin also isn’t interested in issuing political-correct statement, which is nothing but empty rhetoric like those practiced by the West. He doesn’t sing about values of liberty, democracy, freedom of speech, religious and multiculturalism such as – “We will all move forward together, never giving in to terror and never allowing the voices of hate and evil to drive us apart.”
Putin just offered his condolences, left flowers in memory of the victims and said – “Law enforcement agencies and intelligence services are doing their best to establish the cause and give a full picture of what happened.” He doesn’t need to rally the people because no amount of terror attacks – either from ISIS militants or Chechen separatists – is going to hurt his popularity.
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April 4th, 2017 by financetwitter
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I think the Russian system of response, barbaric though it may sound, works well.
If the terrorists are targeting innocent lives, then the Russians target the families of the terrorists. This is a very effective deterrent. If you don’t care about innocent lives, then know how you feel when your loved ones are killed.
That is why no one is claiming responsibility.