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Bombed planted in Moscow McDonald's
Written by Илья Зиненко   
Понедельник, 19 Январь 2009
Moscow
police detained five persons suspected of trying to set off a bomb Friday evening in a southeast-Moscow McDonald's. The bomb was small, and customers could scarcely have been seriously injured, according to police. They regard the incident as an act of vandalism, and not as an attempted terrorist attack.
On Saturday, police arrested three residents of Volgograd and two young Muscovites (including a girl), ages 17 to 24. They were suspected of attempting to commit the Friday attack. They were initially arrested in connection with another case: the alleged murder of an Uzbek citizen who on January 15th was found stabbed to death in Filevsky Park. Investigators find their involvement in the failed McDonald's bombing to be very likely.
As was reported earlier, a bomb was discovered on the evening of January 16th in a McDonald's on Zelenodolsk Street near the Kuzminki subway station. According to a reconstructed chronology of the incident, a young, thin man, about 15–17 years old, put a green gym bag (according to other sources a black and blue backpack) by a table in the restaurant, and then quietly left after being in a cafe for only a few minutes. According to witnesses, thick, black smoke soon poured from the bag. About fifty customers rushed in panic to the exits. Soon a small pop was heard from the bag, but there was no explosion or fire. Police and pyrotechnics experts arrived at the scene and found that the bag to be an improvised explosive device that had failed to work yet for unknown reasons. According to some reports, only the detonator had gone off.
Familiar MO
The bomb left in the McDonald's, according to preliminary data, had a trigger mechanism similar to bombs used in November of last year in a Biryulevo at the Paveletskaya railway station, and in the church of Saint Nicholas. In December a similar bomb was set off in the marketplace near the Prague subway station. In each case the power of the explosives was small — about 100–150 grams of TNT. Police operatives do not rule out that the same group may have made the bombs.
The homemade bomb consisted of ammonium nitrate, aluminum powder, and small metal fragments to increase its lethality. Police, however, still regard the incident as vandalism, and not as an attempted terrorist attack, because, in their opinion, the power of the bomb was small, and customers could scarcely have been seriously injured.
The target of extremists
McDonald's restaurants have more than once been targets of terrorists. The last explosion that rocked the restaurant chain was in St. Petersburg during the winter of 2007, when a blast injured about ten people, four of them serious enough to be hospitalized. Four members of the 'Slavic Community' nationalist organization were arrested during the investigation. The chief organizer of the blast was sentenced to 15 years hard labor. The Moscow police, however, say that the explosion in the St. Petersburg McDonald's in the winter of 2007 is not similar (to the Moscow incident).
In October of 2002, a Tavria automobile was blown up in front of a McDonald's on Pokryshkina Street in southwest Moscow. The explosion injured eight, one dying in the hospital. An investigation revealed that it was committed by supporters of the Chechen terrorists who took hostages at Dubrovka few days later. A year earlier, law enforcement officials in Moscow prevented a terror attack against a restaurant in this chain located on the Arbat.
In 'rb.ru'

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