Armed men take hostages at Moscow Soros institute

[Cooley Hurd]

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/031106/1/3fo4m.html
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Around 40 armed men stormed the Moscow offices of the Open Society institute of US billionaire George Soros, taking five people hostage, it was reported, but there was no apparent political motive.

"Armed men in military clothing came into the building of the institute at 10:30 pm (1930 GMT)," a spokeswoman for the institute told the Interfax news agency. "They chased out all the employees except for five who they are still holding," Irina Racheeva said.

The Soros Foundation and the Open Society institute are heavily involved in promoting civil society and the development of democratic ideas, chiefly in formerly communist east European countries.
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This is George Soros' organization!

[DUreader]

1. Hmm, Bush Buddy BinLad Doing Some Contract Work?

[EdGy]

4. Soros has kicked in big $$$ to oust Bush...

[MoonAndSun]

2. "no apparent political motive"......

are they kidding, men in military clothing take hostages and it is not political!!! Pretty stupid comment, IMHO

[Boom_cha]

5. Ever heard of kidnapping for ransom?

If you're going to kidnap someone, you might as well do it to people who work for a generous billionaire

[DUreader]

7. This would be a new kidnapping tactic, it is more of a Chechen M.O.

[Aidoneus]

9. it is not Chechens, they know who it was

attacking them from a position of ignorance does no good.

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The lawyer for the foundation, Pavel Kuzmin, stressed the men were known to the institute.

"We know these people... we are (currently) in court against them regarding the ownership of this building," he said.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s984310.htm

this sort of thing is more the "Chechen M.O.":--
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7794849%255E1702,00.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-russia-chechnya,0,6264416.story
http://www.gateway2russia.com/st/art_158718.php
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/10/28/chechen_russians031028
http://www.chechenpress.info/english/news/10_2003/1_27_10.shtml

and as for the "Russian M.O." while my bookmarks are open:--
http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/articles/2003/9/26/26074.html
http://www.chechenpress.info/english/news/10_2003/11_06_10.shtml
http://www.chechenpress.info/english/news/09_2003/2_25_09.shtml
http://www.chechenpress.info/english/news/09_2003/4_03_09.shtml
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ru_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fprima-news.ru%2Fnews%2Fnews%2F2003%2F11%2F6%2F26531.html
http://www.peaceinchechnya.org/news/20031031%20-%20FT%20Article.htm

[proud patriot]

3. hmmmmm

:shrug:

[Beetwasher]

6. Holy

Friggin' Shit. This is some fucked up shit right here...

[KoKo]

8. Bush payback to Soros for giving Dems in US money. Gotta be!

If it isn't it's an awfully strange incident to occur right now.......