russia. i think we ll see as we have seen in the past few years, the working together to try to stay on the same page. thank you so very much. and with us now here in washington, roger cressy, former white house terrorism official and nbc news terrorism analyst. all signs that point to chechnya, without leaping to any conclusions, but this has the m.o. of these rebels. we had an attack last march, there was an attack on the train in the fall of 2009 and now from the initial reports we re seeing that there might have been a suicide bomber here with a type of device, with a lot of shrapnel included in it and to create as high as body count as possible. one confirmed right now and possibly more, so if that s the case, it looks more and more like something we would see soming from the caucus region. this is directed against