Extremists Aiming at 'Soft Targets'

AP ^ | 9/3/04 | WILLIAM J. KOLE

[TexKat]

Bodies of schoolchildren killed in a school seizure are seen in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Russia's hostage crisis erupted into explosions, gunfire and screams of fleeing children Friday as commandos stormed the school where militants strapped with bombs had held as many as 1,200 people hostage. More than 150 people were dead, and officials said the toll would rise significantly. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

Bodies of schoolchildren killed in a school seizure seen in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Russia's hostage crisis erupted into explosions, gunfire and screams of fleeing children Friday as commandos stormed the school where militants strapped with bombs had held as many as 1,200 people hostage. More than 150 people were dead, and officials said the toll would rise significantly. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

[TexKat]

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)

[Mamzelle]

The fruit of Islam.

By their fruits, shall ye know them.

[sukhoi-30mki]

Excuse me,what are the targets these folks don't aim at??pig shelters????

[FormerACLUmember]

About half the IslamoFascist murdering vermin were Arab mercenaries.

It is obvious that al Queda is orchestrating the campaign against the Russian population.

[nightdriver]

"The Quran admonishes the followers of Islam that not even the children of infidels should be killed."

This just proves that Bill Kohl and the contributing AP writers are woefully ignorant of the "Quran!"

[sockmonkey]

I am weeping looking at the pictures of these innocents.

I know it's something we need to see lest we forget these kinds of extremists wish the same for our children, too.

[pabianice]

John Kerry condemned them before he found a more nuanced explanation...

[yankeedame]

Extremists have become chillingly brazen in singling out so-called "soft targets" — and counterterrorism experts say they fear nothing is off-limits anymore to those intent on achieving maximum punch, publicity and paranoia. kicks.... b/c if you don't think these thugs get a buzz (a rise?) out of this....

[Bahbah]

I guess targets don't get much softer than children.

[Rutles4Ever]

Extremists...extremists...extremists...

Incredible.

[isthisnickcool]

Again, ANOTHER "news" story missing key words.

[nyconse]

The author of this article is basically saying-give up we can not stop this...YES WE CAN AND WE WILL.

[vrwcagent0498]

As much as it breaks my heart, these pictures need to be on the front page of every newspaper this morning.

Wake up world!

[I still care]

Something Netanyahou said years ago, on Fox in a debate with a liberal (It always stuck with me):

"Israel is the only country in the world that has to have security guards in their nursery schools."

I think the rest of the world is learning the lessons the Islamofascists have taught Israel.

[TopDog2]

"They have blown up mosques, attacked transportation infrastructure, destroyed planes and now conducted a mass hostage-taking," he said

Why would they blow up their own buildings? This article refuses to call the phony-a$$, moon god death-cult worshippers what they are...

[vrwcagent0498]

http://www.logicandsanity.com/archives/2004/09/hostages_zalina.html

[I still care]

"Extremists in Russia's breakaway Chechnya region increasingly have adopted the tactics of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida and other Middle Eastern terrorism groups"

Uh, duh, could this be because there are possible ties between militant Muslim Islamofascist terrorist groups, as much as the MSM tries to deny it?

[BenLurkin]

What, can't they bring themselves to call the perpetrators what they REALLY are?

[Inspectorette]

Again, ANOTHER "news" story missing key words.

Umm - let me see: "Muslim"? "Islamic"?

My guts have been churning about this atrocity ever since it began. I think we all knew it would end up this way: these people are savages, and I fear we will be seeing this kind of thing here if John Kerry becomes president.

I wish my grandchildren were here so I could hug them extra tightly tonight - but they're on Okinawa with their Mom, my daughter, as my son-in-law heads to Iraq with the 31st MEU.