Posted on 09/03/2004 11:38:01 AM PDT by tallhappy
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)
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)
After 9/11 things changed. We now know who wants to harm us. The blame lies in the past Department of State, no more.The US, GB and Russia need to make a unified pact against Terrorism and AQ. To hell with politics of the cold war, we need to unite now and stamp out this vermin. No one would call it genocide if the free world would join together now and stop the ROP.
Islam is EVIL
Bastards!
Extirpate the whole lot of brutes.
They have declared jihad on Christianity. It's high time we hear their call and respond accordingly.
we need to get SERIOUS about wiping them out.
I hope PUTIN nukes mecca. and melts chechnya
Bump
Terrorism is an ugly second to those who don't fight it.
Got that JOhnKERry?
God is calling our generation to fight this evil.
[quote]"Do you guys remember that heart wrenching photo, from the Oklahoma City bombing, of the fireman cradling the baby in his arms?"[/quote]
I can never forget that, the baby in OKC is a distant cousin of mine. I admit I never met her as she was really young and I can't remember the last time we had a family reunion. Losing family members to terrorism really gets to you. I was in the Army at the time sitting in the chow hall eating. I was stationed at a small post in Korea. When I first saw the newsbreak on CNN, believe me I was ready for war right then. I grew up around the OKC area though now I call Washington State home.
I hope the Russians break out that old hammer and put a real whupping on those terrorist.
Despair.
What can we do?
What can I do?
The Germans and French???
The Ummah IS responsible.
And will be held so by somenation someday and sometime.
the result will be smoking craters in SA.
Same here. Heartwrenching. My very soul hurts.
When they are engaged in the holy acts the see, to have every indulgence imaginable.
This is Babylonian Old Testament evil. These people are inhuman and should be treated as such.
There is no outrage in the Muslim world, none at all In light of recent events, combined with events over the past few years post 9/11, I have looked studiously and come up empty on one critical matter concerning terrorism committed by Islamic radicals, and come up with a continiuously unanswered question? Where is the outrage? To be sure, there is some criticism by a few token Muslim clerics here in the United States to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but there has been no public denunciations by rank and file Imams and Mullahs, no condemnations of actions, whether it be those perpetrated against the United States, recent hostage takings of French journalists in Iraq, suicide bombings in Israel, or the recent atrocities committed by Chechen rebels in Russia against innocent men, women and children, on land and in the air, and no SCATHING CONDEMNATIONS from any muslim cleric. Where is the outrage, where are the condemnations? The answer is quite simple, there is none. As a Catholic, if someone of the same religion as I had perpetrated acts like bombing mosques or shooting up Muslim schools, anywhere in the world, it would be rapidly condemned by not only local Catholic clergy, it would be condemned by the Holy See itself, and condemnations against such atrocities would ring out in sermons at Masses the world over for weeks. Muslim clerics and lay people need to learn that if they don't start condemning these atrocities, and continue their silence when such atrocities happen, they will, far from being a solution to the problem, will present themselves as the problem for all civilized nations.
Unreported?
So, where did YOU get the pictures and information from?
Here is one such a story. Yes, barbarians they are.
"Among 20 militants killed Friday, there were 10 Arabs, said Valery Andreyev, Russia's Federal Security Service chief in the region where the school is located. President Vladmir Putin's adviser on Chechnya, Aslanbek Aslakhanov, also said some dead militants were Arab mercenaries.""The presence of Arab attackers would lend greater credence to Putin's contention that al-Qaida terrorists were involved in the Chechen conflict, where Muslim fighters have battled Russian forces in a brutal a war of independence for most of the past decade." -- CNN News
"Valery Andreyev, Russia's Federal Security Service chief in the region, said 10 Arabs were among 27 militants who were killed. The ITAR-Tass news agency, citing unidentified security sources, reported the hostage-taking was the work of Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who had al-Qaida backing." --ABC News
"(CBS/AP) Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels 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.""Officials said 95 victims were identified — some of them children whose shattered, bloodied bodies were placed on lines of stretchers — and Interfax quoted unnamed sources in the regional Health Ministry as saying more than 200 people were killed by fire from the militants or died from their wounds. The figure could not be confirmed."
"Twenty militants were killed in gunfights with security forces Friday, 10 of them from Arab countries, Valery Andreyev, the region's Federal Security Service chief, said in televised comments." -- CBS News
"BESLAN, Russia - Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and overcame militants holding hundreds of hostages as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled the building through explosions and gunfire. Health officials said more than 200 people died, the Interfax news agency reported.""Ninety-five victims were identified — many of them children whose shattered, bloodied bodies were placed on lines of stretchers — and Interfax quoted unnamed sources in the regional Health Ministry as saying more than 200 people were killed by fire from the militants or died from their wounds." -- MSNBC News
And they all have videos.
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