Posted on 09/04/2004 4:14:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A volunteer carries a small child after special forces stormed a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya , September 3, 2004. A hundred or more people were killed when Russian troops stormed a school on Friday in a chaotic battle to free parents, teachers and children who had been held hostage for 53 hours by Chechen separatists. (Stringer/Russia/Reuters)
Relatives examine a list of released hostages who were delivered to the hospital after Russian troops stormed a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya , September 4, 2004. President Vladimir Putin ordered a crackdown in southern Russia after a school siege killed at least 250, and warned Chechen sympathizers on Saturday they would be seen as 'accomplices of terrorism.' REUTERS/Viktor Korotayev
An injured woman is carry by volunteers during the rescue operation of Beslan's school. More than 100 people were killed and hundreds more wounded as Russian special forces stormed a school to free scores of hostages.(AFP/Maxim Marmur)
A soldier helps an injured woman during the rescue operation of Beslan's school, northern Ossetia. Around 100 were killed and more than 550 injured as troops stormed a school in southern Russia.(AFP/Yuri Tutov)
An expert prepares to unload a truck with dead bodies of soldiers and civilians killed during a school assault as people look outside morgue in Beslan Friday night, Sept. 3, 2004. Commandos stormed a school Friday in Beslan, a town in the North Ossetia region, and battled militants holding hundreds of hostages as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled the building through explosions and gunfire. The Interfax news agency reported that more than 200 people died as the crisis erupted into a chaotic finale. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)
Ossetian man carries an injured boy during the rescue operation in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia.(AFP/Yuri Tutov)
Russian Interior Ministry officer carries an injured girl after she was released from the school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya , September 3, 2004. (Viktor Korotayev/Reuters)
A mother and her daughter who were hostages and escaped from the seized school in Beslan, North Ossetia. (AP/Musa Sadulayev)
A volunteer carries an injured girl after special forces stormed a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya , September 3, 2004. Tragic, despicable, inhumane, cowardly, barbaric, evil, and astonishing -- the deaths of a hundred or more people, including children, in a school siege in Russia sparked strong words for the hostage-takers from world leaders. Photo by Stringer/Russia/Reuters
Bodies of schoolchildren and hostages killed in a school seizure seen in a hospital morgue in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding 1,200 hostages. An official said the death toll could be significantly higher than 150. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)
Volunteers carry an injured girl on a stretcher during the rescue operation of Beslan's school. A large explosion resounded from one of the buildings of the school in southern Russia where militants took hundreds of children and adults hostage, ITAR-TASS reported, citing its correspondent.
An injured schoolgirl who escaped from a seized school holds a cross in her hand in a hospital in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, sending hostage-takers and their captives fleeing in a scene of chaos amid explosions and gunfire. More than 100 children were wounded in the assault, some running from the building naked and covered in blood. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)
An injured schoolgirl who escaped from the seized Russian school holds a cross in her hand in a hospital in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, sending hostage-takers and their captives fleeing in a scene of chaos amid explosions and gunfire. More than 100 children were wounded in the assault, some running from the building naked and covered in blood. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)
Injured children are carried on a stretcher to a temporary hospital in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, sending hostage-takers and their captives fleeing in a scene of chaos amid explosions and gunfire. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)
An injured woman looks on after special forces stormed a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya on September 3, 2004. Russian soldiers battled Chechen separatists on Friday to end a two-day-old school siege as naked children ran out screaming amid explosions and machinegun fire. ( Reuters/S.Dal)
A man carries an injured child who escaped from a seized school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, sending hostage-takers and their captives fleeing in a scene of chaos amid explosions and gunfire. More than 100 children were wounded in the assault, some running from the building naked and covered in blood. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
A man carries a wounded child from a seized school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days. Local officials said 250 hostages were wounded, 180 of them children. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
A man carries his son after he was released from the school seized by armed Chechen separatists in the town of Beslan near Chechnya , September 3, 2004. REUTERS/Viktor Korotayev
A man carries his son after he was released from the school seized by armed separatists in the town of Beslan near Chechnya , September 3, 2004. REUTERS/Viktor Korotayev
A boy screams as he sits in a car with his relatives after he was released from the school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya , September 3, 2004. Russian soldiers battled Chechen separatists on Friday to end a two-day-old school siege as naked children ran out screaming amid explosions and machinegun fire. REUTERS/Viktor Korotayev
Relatives attend a religious service near the school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya , September 3, 2004. Russian soldiers battled Chechen separatists on Friday to end a two-day-old school siege as naked children ran out screaming amid explosions and machinegun fire. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor
A Russian police officer carries a released baby from the school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya on September 2, 2004. An armed gang, holding hundreds of people hostage in a Russian school, freed four infants and at least two women. (Viktor Korotayev/Reuters)
A woman carrying a child cries after being released by militants in Beslan. (AP/Sergey Ponomarev)
A father holds his released daughter, two-and-a-half year old Amina Dzantieva, after a visit to a hospital for an inspection in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya , September 2, 2004. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
A relative of a killed hostage, 8-year-old Teimuraz Morgoyev, cries in front of her house in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya , September 4, 2004. President Vladimir Putin ordered a crackdown in southern Russia after a school siege killed at least 250, and warned Chechen sympathizers on Saturday they would be seen as 'accomplices of terrorism.' REUTERS/Viktor Korotayev
Russian President Vladimir Putin touches a sleeping injured girl at a hospital in Beslan. Some 322 people, including 155 children, were killed in the three-day hostage siege in a southern Russian school on the edge of Chechnya , said Russia's Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky.(AFP/ITAR-TASS/Alexey Panov)
What is it going to take?
When will our detractors acknowledge the evil we are up against?
I don't have the words to convey what is going on through my mind.
What to do?
Keep attention on the big picture; resist the urge to focus all attention on retaliating in small-scale ways, tit for tat. Take on and eliminate Iran's regime as a threat, and the regimes in other countries which are the real source of the terrorist problem.
solemn bump
Fox News just quoted a Russian offficial report that said the terrorists had stored weapons in the school ahead of time. They had so much that there was no way they could have brought it all in when they took over the school.
I know this, if that was my bloodied child or dead wife in one of those photo's, there would be be ANY and MANY muslims having to deal with the business end of a FN rifle. I would'nt care what the authorities did with me.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts said during last night's Democratic presidential debate that the threat of terrorism has been exaggerated.
"I think there has been an exaggeration," Mr. Kerry said when asked whether President Bush has overstated the threat of terrorism. "They are misleading all Americans in a profound way."
The front-runner for the Democratic nomination said he would engage other nations in a more cooperative fashion to quell terrorism.
1/29/2004 - THE WASHINGTON TIMES
You'd have plenty of company, that's for sure!!!
Let this event be the conclusive signal that there is nothing these Muslim terrorists won't do to promote they sick agenda. There are only two ways this savagery will end. We kill all of them, or they give up. If anyone doubts what they would do if they got their hands on a nuclear weapon, just remember this event.
It is reported 460 killed and 600 wounded
http://www.gazeta.ru/2004/09/04/oa_132350.shtml
460??? Oh Dear God!!!!! Just when I thought my anger levels were at a maximum all time high!!!
TIMELINE Beyond Chechnya
Actions outside of Chechnya linked to the conflict.
June 14, 1995
Chechen gunmen take 2,000 hostages at a hospital in southern Russian town of Budyonnovsk, near Chechnya. After failed attempts at force, Russia negotiates the hostages' release in exchange for the gunmen's escape. More than 100 die.
Jan. 9, 1996
Chechen militants seize 3,000 hostages at a hospital in southern Russian town of Kizlyar. Rebels release most, then head for Chechnya with about 100 hostages. Rebels are stopped in a village and attacked by Russian troops. At least 78 die in weeklong fight.
Jan. 16, 1996
Six Turks and three Chechens hold 255 hostages on ferry in Black Sea, threatening to blow up ship if Russia doesn't halt battles in southern Russia. The rebels surrender after three days.
March 9, 1996
Turkish sympathizer hijacks jetliner flying out of Cyprus to draw attention to situation in Chechnya. The sympathizer surrenders after plane lands in Munich, Germany.
Sept. 4, 1999
Bomb destroys a building housing Russian military officers and families in Buinaksk in Russia's Dagestan region. Sixty-four die. Russian officials blame Chechen rebels, but never prove their involvement.
Sept. 9, 1999
Explosion wrecks a nine-story apartment building in southeast Moscow, killing almost 100. Authorities suspect a Chechen bomb, although no evidence is ever provided to support the claim.
Sept. 13, 1999
A bomb destroys an apartment building in southern Moscow, killing 70. Officials blame Chechens, but nobody is ever charged in the attack.
Sept. 16, 1999
Bombs shear off the front of a nine-story apartment building in Volgodonsk, 500 miles south of Moscow. Nearly 20 are killed. Authorities again blame Chechens rebels, but nobody is charged.
March 16, 2001
Three Chechens hijack a Russian airliner leaving Istanbul and divert it to Saudi Arabia. Saudi forces storm plane, killing one hijacker and two hostages.
April 22, 2001
Some 20 gunmen hold about 120 people for 12 hours at a hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, to protest Russian actions in Chechnya. The rebels later surrender to police and release the hostages.
May 4, 2002
Lone gunman holds 13 people hostage at a hotel in Istanbul to protest situation in Chechnya. The gunman surrenders after an hour.
Oct. 24, 2002
Chechen rebels seize 800 people in a Moscow theater. After a three-day standoff, Russian authorities launch a rescue attempt in which all 41 attackers are killed along with 127 hostages who succumb to a knockout gas used to incapacitate the assailants.
July 5, 2003
Double suicide bombing at a Moscow rock concert kills the female attackers and 15 other people.
July 10, 2003
A Russian security agent dies in Moscow while trying to defuse a bomb a woman had tried to carry into a cafe on central Moscow’s main street.
Aug. 1, 2003
50 people are killed in Mozdok, North Ossetia, when a truck bomb smashes through the gates of a hospital where Russian soldiers injured in Chechnya are treated.
Sept. 16, 2003
Two suicide bombers drive a truck laden with explosives into a government security services building near Chechnya, killing three people and injuring 25.
Dec. 5, 2003
Suicide bombing on commuter train in southern Russia kills 44 people. President Vladimir Putin condemns attack as bid to destabilize the country two days before parliamentary elections. Six people were killed in two blasts on the same railway line in September.
Dec. 9, 2003
Female suicide bomber blows herself up outside Moscow’s National Hotel, across from the Kremlin and Red Square, killing five bystanders.
Feb. 6, 2004
An explosion rips through a subway car in the Moscow metro during rush hour, killing 41 people.
June 21- 22, 2004
Chechen rebels kill at least 92 people, mostly law-enforcement officers and officials, while setting fire to police and government buildings around Nazran, the main city of the neighboring republic of Ingushetia.
Aug. 25, 2004
Chechen suicide bombers blamed for explosions that kill 90 people on board two Russian planes.
What is it about these cowardly bastards that they do not go after military targets? Why do they not fight like men?
I consider conducting guerrilla warfare to be an honorable method of engagings one's enemies. But this continual targeting of innocent non-combatants lacks decency, lacks honor, lacks courage, and shows that thier highest duty is to death, and not any principled cause.
We are going to have to deal with these people sooner or later. I am for sooner.
Hey Ragheads, what's in the box?
Better find out, because its not going to be there much longer.
WE can only hope.
The ones who will vote for him think it is the mean old America's fault. I do not comprehend how they can think that.
You answered your own question. Cowardly bastards. So - let's take the fight to them.
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