Posted on 09/08/2004 8:12:35 AM PDT by Pitiricus
THE full horror of the Russian school atrocity began to emerge yesterday as traumatised children told horrific tales of stabbed babies and brutal rapes.
It has also emerged that scores of the 323 who died - including many children - had been shot in the back.
While despairing soldiers and rescue workers moved among the growing pile of body bags, it was revealed that an 18-month-old baby had been repeatedly stabbed by a black-clad terrorist who had run out of ammunition.
Other survivors told how screaming teenage girls were dragged into rooms adjoining the gymnasium where they were being held and raped by their Chechen captors who chillingly made a video film of their appalling exploits
They said children were forced to drink their own urine and eat the petals off the flowers they had brought their teachers after nearly three days without food or water in the stifling hot gym.
Their stories came as Russian officials warned that the final death toll of the siege of Middle School No 1 at Beslan in North Ossetia - in which up to 1,200 people were held captive - was likely to be more than 400.
The official toll yesterday stood at 323 which included 156 children, 10 Russian soldiers and two emergency service workers - 35 of the hostage-takers were also killed. Last night 434 people were being treated in hospital with 247 children and 85 adults in a critical condition.
A Russian official said six seriously injured children had been taken to Moscow for treatment.
"One of them is a child, just 18 months old, with many knife wounds," he said....
(Excerpt) Read more at sundaymirror.co.uk ...
(sarcasm off)
Kumbayah!
This is sickening. The liberals in this country and Europe must be stupid, immoral, or both to not recognize that terrorism must be stopped.
They don't want to reflect poorly on the religion of peace.
Because it might put Islam in a bad light.
Mohametans are a Leftist protected species, doncha know.
Like mountain lions and bears, any atrocity, any outrage perpetrated thereby is "understandable".
Laura Ingraham has been talking about this horror the past two days and wondering why the media isn't focusing on it.
They are too busy making up dirt about Bush's National Guard service 32 years ago.
Laura Ingraham said they gouged out a child's eyes.
I wish we could arm our teachers and their assistants before this happens over here!!! This is horrific!
I think we all need to contact our representatives and get on their case about arming our teachers!
For those who don't remember (from Columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown of The Independent (UK)):
"I took my son to see Michael Moore live at the Roundhouse, in North London, before Christmas. The U.S. radical and author of the best-selling book 'Stupid White Men' was (mostly) clever, funny, angry, sharp, iconoclastic and skeptical about the lies and humbug processed by the U.S. government and big business. ...
What we did not expect was to feel so enraged at one point that we almost walked out. It was when Moore went into a rant about how the passengers on the planes on 11 September were scaredy-cats because they were mostly white. If the passengers had included black men, he claimed, those killers, with their puny bodies and unimpressive small knives, would have been crushed by the dudes, who as we all know take no disrespect from anybody. ..."
Cause the news media is covering for the Chechen "militants" AKA child-raping, baby back-shooting Islamofascist scum of the Earth!
Islam, the religion of peace and love!
Where is the UN's outrage? Silence. It's deafening!
I am very proud of her. She will not let this story be buried. She does her homework, I think she is to be commended for this!
Thank you Laura! You are a true patriot for using your postition to further the cause of the WOT and you are brilliant!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr........................
"I think we all need to contact our representatives and get on their case about arming our teachers."
What a bright person you are. We have not been able to get the airline pilots to be armed and you are advocating getting NEA members to be armed!! Ha......
"I think we all need to contact our representatives and get on their case about arming our teachers."
What a bright person you are. We have not been able to get the airline pilots to be armed and you are advocating getting NEA members to be armed!! Ha......
It should not be missed that Kerry has chose to ignore the Russian child massacre, just as his counterparts in the media have done. This is not by accident but by a well planned strategy. They can not afford to give Bush one ounce of credibility towards the war on terror. It is shameful that day after day, week after week, Abu Graib prison was presented to the American people, yet few know the horror of what took place in Russia. Thus the media in this country is far, far more dangerous to our freedom than any terrorist could ever be. I look forward the their eventual demise.
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