Posted on 09/03/2004 2:35:21 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
Alleged Terrorist Lynched by Mob Outside Beslan School Building
Created: 03.09.2004 17:57 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 18:32 MSK, 7 hours 57 seconds ago
MosNews
Shortly after the situation erupted at the scene of the hostage crisis in the North Ossetian town of Beslan, the area around the school was described as chaotic, with one suspected terrorist attacked by the crowd.
A reporter with Britain’s Sky News described how vigilantes attacked one of the suspected rebels. She said special forces brought out a man on a stretcher and the crowd moved as one and began to attack him.
The soldiers made a token effort to protect him but they have no control, the reporter said.
The chaos is thought to have assisted up to 13 of the hostage-takers to flee the school and hole up in a residential building nearby.
A correspondent from the BBC who is at the scene also called the situation in the streets in the aftermath of the storming as “pandemonium”.
Television pictures showed scores of bloodied children in a state of undress milling around armored personnel carriers as soldiers provided water and first aid. The sound of gunfire could be heard in the background.
A number of the released hostages have reportedly avoided going to hospital, Gazeta.Ru says, further confusing any attempt at a head count by authorities.
As frustrating as it is to wait for courts to do their work, there's a reason civilized people try to work through a court process -- to protect the innocent, not to protect the guilty.
My thoughts exactly.
No tears wasted here.
Harsh, but you might get my vote if I couldn't come up with anything more gratifying.
I agree that the court process is the right way to go and I always hope that here in the US we choose to go that route when things like this occur. But for most of Russia at this point from all I have read is the courts are a joke and very back logged. Russia has been teetering on the brink of falling into third world status for a long time. I cannot see them waiting for justice.. As much as I like to I cannot put The American way of thinking into the minds of the Russians...it is not the same situation.
The soldiers had considered stopping them but didn't......
What a shame that Americans don't have similar intestinal fortitude.
The BBC is BIASED. Anyone with me on that? So to this BBC journalist this makes the lynchers vigalantes? Actually, to be a vigalante you have to have a HISTORY of killing criminals. This was just parents' rage. So angry parents are vigalantes and murderers are militants. BBC Journalists are weapons of mass delusion. What the hell is wrong with these people?
I've had it. I'm not putting up with any of this moral relatism crap anymore. If I here one person, friend or family, try to exuse these animals, I'm giving them an earful.
There is a time and a place for everything. This time it rare place and time for a hanging.
Lynching was entirely too quick and painless for him. I'm surprised the Russians didn't tear him limb from limb before lynching him.
See what you can do without the ACLU.
I hope they killed the bastard.
Actually from my fiance in Russia, he was lynched and THEN literally torn apart by the crowd.
They did
Maybe now they will demand that Putin give his support to President Bush.
Perhaps decent Muslims the world over will take a good, hard look at Islam and decide whether this is what they believe and whether this is a religion to which they want to look for guidance.
I guess lynching means killing by mob action, but not necessarily hanging.
This action is not a good sign for the terrorists.
If the public starts retaliating .. bad news for the terrorists. It means the people are no longer afraid and the terrorists will have lost their edge.
This was a horrible thing to have happen, but maybe it will turn out to be a very good thing in the long run. Maybe it will begin a decline in hostage taking.
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