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Does it get missed by the intelligence community here? there's no question that based on people i'm talking to formerly of the intelligence community,s that goi community, that's going to be a big area of focus. >> are we talking to russia, talking to chechnya, talking to our london and madrid and other european bureaus to leeias over security concerns? >> based on talking to people, the russian piece they believe will be important. i can't tell you exactly what that level of contact has been. it is striking though, as one person has told me, that russian president putin's statement, basically...

Because in fact it started off as a classy separatist movement. chechnya never liked being governored by moscow, even back in the 1700s, when czarist troops were exercising control. over the years, particularly the last ten years, it took on more of a religious flavor. it became adopted as a cause in effect by osama bin laden and his al qaeda group. and the flavor of radical islam began to take over what was sort of an independence movement. so you see chechens not just in russia, but you see chechens fighting in afghanistan, in the tribal areas of pakistan and other places around the world. a...

We're told the emergency security forces there, on the ground, had to literally knock down the wall in between the badge corral area and the outer lobby area of the airport to try a evacuate people, and wafts of smoke were coming from the room and people were seen fleeing from the exit areas, of that vicinity, and, again, terror, if it is terror, the number one suspects could be the chechen separatists and, the -- sometimes, islamists linked to groups operating in the caucu es area of the former soviet union and have been possible store blasts in the moscow underground last march, at this airp...

I should say. we don't know the answer but it took place inside the airport. not on board a plane or outside, but inside the airport. which is intriguing, nonetheless. russia's busiest airport, about a year ago, one of the main train lines that runs from moscow to st. petersburg, was blown off the tracks. and when you hear people like vladimir putin talk about challenging the chechen separatists and the rebels who launched many attacks upon the russian people over the years, this will be not only heavily investigated from the chechen standpoint, but, also, since we do not have the source of wh...

Injured and of course, you know, the president has declared this an act of terrorism. in moscow. he says we will find out who did this. among the names that immediately surface are chechen separatists who have carried out similar scenes of violence in moscow over the years but there is also the question of whether or not there is an al-qaeda link to this. you know, a lot of things are surfacing, we don't have any idea at this point who is responsible. but, people who follow this closely, catherine herridge is work on this and her sources are trying to figure out the clues that may lead to us f...