Text message blows up suicide bomber by accident
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A guy gets forced into a suicide bomb vest and then it's prematurely detonated. The trigger turned out to be a radio signal from a nearby pirate radio broadcaster who happened to be on the same frequency as the bomber's detonator.
The chechnyan islamists have been terrorizing the area since the 1990s.
they were the first ones that i know of, that used the 'force' of producing and distributing videos of 'peer' civlians getting beheaded.
The lesson Russia is failing to learn is that if you keep killing civilians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War#Human_rights_...) and calling it a war, the civilians will organize, fight back and fight dirty.
It's true Russia has a lot of blood on it's hands. But I think each time, we excuse some cruelty with another cruelty from the past, we're just excusing the future ones.
As a side note, the airport attack could not have been prevented by the nude scanners.
n.b. airports are not the only places with crowds
Chechen separatists
Your question seems to indicate the belief in a global terrorist organization. I would recommend the BBC documentary "Power of nightmares" to clear up this misunderstanding.
In short, Al Queida is a name we made up and there is no global terrorist organization. There are and were a lot of isolated terrorist groups but they don't have some common goal. They're as likely to fight each other as anyone else. The terrorist groups that do exist attack their own enemies (e.g. IRA attacked England, Chechen separatist attack Russia, etc.).
Specifically points 7,8 and 9.
>allegations of Chechen links with Al Qaeda
Well, since Al Qaeda is a made up name what do they mean with this? Are they calling any Islamic group that provides financial aid to groups that are implicated in terrorist activities "Al Qaeda"?
>is influenced by the fact that no Chechens were captured by the US forces in Afghanistan
"Terrorists" captured in the first probes into Afghanistan were, in all likelihood, not terrorists at all. Locals were paid to brings some terrorists so they brought some people and said they were terrorists.
The biggest "evidence" this site seems to have is that some Islamic charity groups gave money to the Chechen rebels. Isn't it just as likely that an Islamic group would give money to help out another Islamic group they see as being oppressed? Assuming that their only possible intention could be to finance terrorism is quite a leap.
Also the Chechens seem to have a bit of an issue with telecommunications gear:
(Therefore I doubt it was New Year congratulations. Probably just an ad (may be New Year-themed, though))
I don't think this is a credible source.
Of course it would take a few years to phase out all the old phones but you could then pretty much spot a potential bomber by checking the age of the IMEI.
That's yet another way to show that the terrorists win every single time. What better way to change the world than to force every single cell phone to annoy the bloody hell out of its user? Who needs to keep killing people when you're able to constantly and continuously annoy every single person in the Western world?
But it only takes one.