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They call us terrorists. ”25 Knockout Gas The Chechens, who were Muslim, allowed all Muslim hostages to leave the theater. After negotiating with Russian authorities, Barayev also released the youngest children. In all, thirty-nine hostages were let go. The roughly seven hundred who remained were guarded at all times, and when a retired Russian military officer approached the building to negotiate without the authorization of his own government or the separatists, he was shot and killed. Two other people from outside did manage to get into the theater.
Shortly after that a suicide car bomber killed 34 and injured at least 50 in a crowded market in Charsadda, northeast of Peshawar. Perhaps as a result of these attacks, public opinion regarding suicide bombing changed. Pew Research polled people in seventeen countries in 52 2002 and 2009. In the 2002 poll a third of the respondents in Pakistan said that suicide bombing was justified in the defense of Islam. In 2009 nearly 90 percent said it was never justified. This was a major development in a country that had previously allowed terrorist organizations to establish bases within its borders.
Terrorists targeted four rush-hour commuter trains, detonating ten of thirteen bombs hidden inside backpacks. 56 third unexploded bomb, also still within its backpack, was not found until much later, amidst some luggage that had been removed from a train car. All three bombs proved to be improvised explosive devices— a type of homemade bomb commonly used by terrorists—and experts used controlled detonations to destroy them. PERSPECTIVES Americans Have Given Up Too Much to Prevent Terrorist Attacks After 9/11, the US government took various steps to prevent future terrorist attacks.