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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 31 people and injured more than 130 on Monday at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, Russia's biggest.

President Dmitry Medvedev vowed to track down and punish those behind the attack, which analysts said appeared to fit a pattern of bombings by Islamist militants fighting to create an independent "emirate" in Russia's north Caucasus region.

"The explosion was right near me, I was not hit but I felt the shock wave -- people were falling," said Yekaterina Alexandrova, a translator who was waiting in the crowded arrivals area to meet a client flying in from abroad.

"Smoke started to gather -- there was a lot of smoke," she said by telephone. "Many of the injured went outside on their own in a state of shock. Then they began to announce information about where to exit."

The Kremlin said Medvedev, who has called the insurgency in the north Caucasus the biggest threat to Russia's security, was delaying a trip to the Davos international business forum in Switzerland.

The rebels have vowed to take the bombing campaign to the Russian heartland, hitting transport and economic targets.

"Security will be strengthened at large transport hubs," Medvedev wrote on Twitter. "We mourn the victims of the terrorist attack at Domodedovo airport. The organizers will be tracked down and punished."

Russia's rouble-dominated stock market MICEX fell by nearly two percent following the blast, which ripped through the arrivals hall.

SPREADING INSURRECTION

Twitter users posted mobile video phone footage of dozens of people lying on the floor as thick smoke filled the terminal hall and a fire burned along one wall.

Airport staff were shown using flash lights to pick their way through the chaotic scene taped immediately after the blast. Later videos showed emergency workers wheeling injured people out of the terminal on stretchers.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who shares power in a 'tandem' arrangement with the less influential Medvedev, has staked his political reputation on quelling rebellion in the north Caucasus.

He launched a war in late 1999 in Chechnya to topple a secessionist government. That campaign achieved its immediate aim and helped him to the presidency months later; but since then insurgency has spread to neighboring areas of Ingushetia and Dagestan.

"It does not ... bode well for Russian ties to the North Caucasus and is yet another sign that what Putin started in 1999 by invading the rebellious republic of Chechnya has come home to roost again in the Russian capital," said Glen Howard, president of the U.S. Jamestown Foundation research institution.

"The bomb blast at Domodedevo will further strengthen the view among the Russian elite that Putin is losing control over security in the capital, which plays into the hands of his enemies."

Analysts say rebels are planning to increase their violent campaign in the run up to 2012 presidential elections, that may well see Putin returning to the presidency.

Security has been beefed up at Moscow's other two airports, which will also receive diverted passengers who were flying toward Domodedovo, media reported.

Moscow suffered its worst attack in six years in March 2010 when two female suicide bombers from Dagestan set off explosives in the metro, killing 40 people.

(Writing by Ralph Boulton and Steve Gutterman; Editing by Louise Ireland)

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I wanted to get more info on this bombing through new sources etc, this is on the first page of searching for infomation, seriously, not even, what, 24 hours, and it's already circling the conspiracy theory drain, not saying i'm suprised, but just the nerve, just as soon they hear, 'suicide bombing', it has to be NWO.

It makes me facepalm, over and over again.

Yeah, Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2, it struck up a lot of controversy, but not as much as other games over here in the west, mostly it told of innocent Russians being killed, not americans or british, but in Russia it was debated about, but still released.
From now on if there is a mass murder/bombing in a busy/popular place it has to be a false flag, because terrorists are far too stupid to think of that themselves.

I agree with a statement that I heard from youtube, I think it was tooltime, these people are such in a mindset that they can't see that the world is simply a chaotic place, they would want to be some kind of sinister force that wants to take over the world, something that is in control and in check, such as they believe bankers or whatever are in command.

It's really creepy.

Edit : Also sorry I tend to spill out the obvious when it comes to things like this.

I very highly doubt that, Inside Job

ATS is a broad community, it has Rensers, but far more Jonestown members, and even more UFO-types.

My sympathies to the lost...

Anger the Russians, they came for you...BIG time.

Besides, all that is raspberry jam and ketchup, not blood. All the 'victims' will turn up alive in a year or so.