Posted on 11/27/2006 5:38:33 PM PST by mylife
Hundreds of students taken hostage in Tehran
Indo-Asian News Service
Tehran, November 27, 2006
A gunman took hundreds of students and teachers hostage in a high school in Tehran, witnesses said.
The man, with a grenade belt, warned he would detonate the explosives if the government did not fulfil his demands, the witnesses said. The demands were not immediately known.
Somehow I doubt the mullahs will care that much.
Somehow I don't think Mullah give a s**t
This is a switch. Last time the "students" were the hostage takers.
Are you kidding their government is the same guys who gave plastic keys to hundreds of thousand of children and told them they were the keys to paradise and told them to run in front of the tanks during the Iran/Iraq war. Human minesweepers.
bttt
Breaking news ping.
If Iranians are so spineless that one bomb-belted nit wit can cow several hundred of them then they deserve to die.
Such delicious irony. Muslims around the world have seen the success of suicide bombings as a way to get what you want.
Now suicide bombings are being used to attack muslims - I wonder how they'll like the shoe being on the other foot?
Unless it's a Christian school. Now that would suck.
Not Quite Breaking. It seems its over.
Here is an Updade:
Tehran (dpa - A hostage-taking Monday in a high school in Tehran ended peacefully after a police psychologist persuaded the hostage- taker to surrender.
A police officer told reporters that the man, in his forties, was a former soldier during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and wanted government support for his military service.
The gunman, wearing a grenade belt, entered the Falaq high school and took over a hundred pupils and teachers hostage, warning he would detonate the explosives if the government did not fulfil his demands.
However, he surrendered after a police psychologist promised to follow up his case and communicate his demands to the government.
Massoud, one of the hostages, said that the gunman entered the school and shooting in the air, forced more than one hundred pupils and teachers to gather in one of the classrooms.
The gunman also brought his daughter with him, but she cried all the time and said she had been forced to accompany her father, the seventh grade student said.
The man said he had served the country for many years during the Iran-Iraq war, but now had nothing and he demanded his rights as a war veteran, Massoud said, adding that the man seemed to be mentally unstable.
© 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Thanks for the update.
Sounds like a democrat.
A Christian school? In Tehran?
Now, lets not be too hasty on our characterizations... Maybe he was just thinking 'outside of the box'.
"then they deserve to die"
How can any person ever take joy from what can happy to children, without regard to their parental religion?
Remember Beslan -
The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan school siege or Beslan Massacre) began when armed Muslim terrorists took more than 1200 school children and adults hostage on September 1, 2004, at School Number One (SNO) in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
On the third day of the standoff, gunfire broke out between the hostage-takers and Russian security forces. According to official data, 344 civilians were killed, 186 of them children, and hundreds more wounded."
What goes around comes around.
My first thought for some reason was of Blazing Saddles. "One move and the muslim gets it!....
Sounds like one of our cases; the only difference will be the guarantee at the ending. . .
UPDATE...
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1226530.php/Hostage-taking_in_Tehran_school_ends_peacefully__Roundup_
Middle East News
"Hostage-taking in Tehran school ends peacefully (Roundup)"
Nov 27, 2006, 11:03 GMT
Probably you will never hear from the perpetrator again. Unless they decide to make his execution public.
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