...if it's true that two Russian jetliners were hijacked a little awhile ago, one crashing, and one now missing.

[url]http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040825/ap_on_re_eu/russia_plane_crash&cid=518&ncid=716[/url]

One group of people that terrorists really shouldn't try and terrorize are the Russians.

1. I don't think the Russians are easily terrorized.

2. When confronted with terrorists, Russians just start killing a hell of a lot of people...really scares the shit out of the terrorists (if they survive.) Terrorists friends, family, neighbors, the milk guy, random people etc...dead, dead, and dead. Hostages, the ones who make it, "Hey, lucky you, here's a potato," the rest, not so lucky. Problem solved.

3. There is no negotiation. See 1. and 2.

Might've been the chechens? Plane hijacking is not they're trade, but...

here's another link, The Moscow Times: [url]http://www.themoscowtimes.com/doc/HotNews.html[/url]

Re:: Probably not the best idea by terrorists...

It's bound to be the Chechens... there's presidential elections coming up. And everybody else knows the repercussions - see 1,2 and 3. :(