Posted on 09/03/2004 11:21:10 AM PDT by blasater1960
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646 vicitms of terrorist act in Beslan hospitalized.
03.09.2004, 22.00
“The former hostages are receiving therapy in mobile hospitals and clinics of Beslan and Vladikavkaz,” the source said.
Some 130 wounded people, including children, are in the Vladikavkaz clinic. The republican clinic has 38 patients, including five children, with the severest wounds and traumas, and the children’s clinic of Vladikavkaz has admitted 186 children.
Eighty adults are receiving therapy in the airmobile hospital, 200 in the medical emergency clinic, 32 in the republican clinic, two in the military hospital of Vladikavkaz, and four in the first town hospital of Vladikavkaz.
The town hospital of Beslan has admitted 98 adults, two were sent to the defense ministry hospital in Vladikavkaz, and one is in the Ardon town hospital.
“The majority of patients have bullet wounds in the back,” the sources said.
The storming of the school, was not prepared, the Russian president’s adviser Aslambek Aslakhanov told reporters on Friday. “We were getting ready for dialogue in order to avoid spilling blood,” he said.
Aslakhanov arrived in Beslan by air to take part in negotiation with the hostage takers.
According to Aslakhanov, “ the terrorists demanded the withdrawal of the troops from Chechnya and the release of all the people who had been arrested for attacking the security agencies of Ingushetia on June 22.”
Aslakhanov said seven to 30 terrorists had been in the captured school. There were representatives of various ethnic groups in the gang. It was fully international, he said.
The number of those killed in the Beslan hostage crisis may by far exceed 150," Aslakhanov said.
Seventy-nine victims of the hostage crisis were identified by 9:15 p.m. Moscow time, head of the Federal Security Service’s North Ossetian department and the crisis center Valery Andreyev said.
“Unfortunately, the death rate is mounting,” he said adding that the operation against the terrorists is going on.
I am sure you are praising al-Qaida's brilliant plan.
"From what's been posted here, some hostages decided to try and escape, and when that happened the terrorists started shooting at them, Russian forces fired to provide them some cover, and at least one of the terrorists set off explosives in the gym, bringing the roof down. At that point the security forces didn't have a choice but to move in."
Thanks for filling in some of the pieces.
Obviously, the terrorists are to blame.
They basically redid the napal thing. I'm surprised they didn't saw off the heads of a few of the kids though.
That is the tune I have been playing since 9/11. I'm with ya!
What would you suggest? Once the terrorists were in the building, heavily armed and bomb laden he really didn't have many options.
I just asked a question.
As for Putin being a criminal, that's a different thread.
Whoaaa hold on just a minute....I did not say or imply anything close to that. Putin did the right thing and I hope he unleashes hell on the Chechens.
Hey. President Bush offerred help. I have a feeling we might have handled things differently. But I'm no expert. Are you?
may have misread your post, but it wasnt meant to be directed to you and I should have addresses it to ALL in particular
EXCUSE ME???
I'd like to hear more on this.
There was a black muslim, 10 arabs, an ethnic russian and Chechnyans.
Also one of the women escaped in doctor's clothes and tried to blow up the hospital where the wounded were taken. they caught her.
Yeah, you're no expert so that gives you the right to try to blame Putin for this?
"This was the best plan Putin could come up with?"
Got a feeling that Putin is going to go KGB on Chechnya.
I regard every Orthodox Christian among the slain as a Holy Martyr.
Holy New-Martyrs of Belsan pray to Christ-God for us sinners that He may have mercy on our souls!
At this point, I'm too sick to even comprehend which kind of beasts will shoot a little boy or a little girl in the back.
The complete blame for this carnage rests on the terrorists' shoulders.
that was a synthetic morphine gas was it not....a bit too concentrated apparently.
Putin had no real choice. And you can't protect every target 100%.
The only solution is to let them know that they will suffer consequences beyond their belief. You take one school we take out one city. Period. No discussion. You take out one airplane we take out one city. Period. No discussion.
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