Posted on 09/03/2004 3:10:43 PM PDT by dennisw
EU wants explanation from Moscow on hostage storming
03 September 2004 = = The EU refused Friday to rush to judgment on how Russian authorities acted in the bloody end to the hostage crisis in north Ossetia, but said it wants Moscow's explanation of the tragedy.
"It is premature now, without knowing the exact situation, to make a judgment on the way the Russian authorities acted," said Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot, whose country currently holds the European Unionpresidency.
"We first have to evaluate the situation with the knowledge of all the details," he told reporters at the end of the first day of a two-day meeting of EU foreign ministers in the southern Netherlands.
But in a later statement Friday evening Bot said the EU will be seeking an explanation from Moscow.
"All countries in the world need to work together to prevent tragedies like this. But we also would like to know from the Russian authorities how this tragedy could have happened."
The comments came after around 100 were killed and over 550 injured as crack troops stormed a school in southern Russia, freeing children and adults held hostage for almost three days by militants demanding independence for Chechnya.
Earlier in the day Bot called the denouement of the hostage crisis in the town of Beslan a "deep human tragedy" and said it appeared that authorities "considered very carefully this situation before deciding to take this action."
Speaking following afternoon talks, he added that "as figures are coming in it turns out that the drama is even greater than I thought."
He notably said that "perhaps at a later date" European leaders could discuss "with our Russian friends" the possibility of creating a joint anti-terrorism force.
"We should also eventually look into what has happened and discuss ... measures that can be taken to prevent such situations from occurring," he added.
They should ask the 'Chechyen Rebels', also known as hardcore Islamic terrorists.
Putin to EU:
THEY FREAKIN MURDERED 200 CHILDEN IN COLD BLOOD! WHAT KIND OF EXPLAINATION DO YOU WANT?!?!?!?!?!?!?
The title of this article might as well read, "Islam recruits yet another enemy in the War On Terror".........
This is a quagmire and a disaster!
The so called "security forces" are just making everything worse!
Surrender now! World opinion demands it!
- Not pretty or pleasant is it? We've been getting that kind of crap for two years now.
The ragheads are already threatening the frogs with murder and mayhem if they don't reverse their policiy of not allowing the ragheads to wear rags on their heads to school.
Wipe out Islam and make the world a better place.
Hopefully this will align Russian opinions with the EU's true nature.
It's incredible.........Kids learn more about geography from the news than anywhere; as in the Muslims beheaded hostages from places you never heard of until now.
"I wonder if the following words exist in the dictionary for all the news services and for the "EU":
Islam, Moslem, Koran."
Answer: They don't bother to use dictionaries, they already know it all.
1,200 CHILDREN at that. These people are as bad as the Nazis or Imperial Japan. We know how we dealt with those people.
Shooting kids in the back as they fled? No problem! The other muslims will not say a word or they are infidels too! What a twisted, evil satanic religion! Now I know how the anti-christ will rule for a very short period.
Yeah :^)
I kinda like the movie Pulp Fiction. The part where Wallace gets out of his shackles from being raped and says "I am going to get me some hard hitting niggas to go medieval on his ass"
rm -rf /mnt/EU
ps -aux|grep "EU-WANTS-ANSWERS" | while read EU-MORONS ; do
kill -9 "`echo $EU-MORONS|awk '{print $2}'`"
done
echo "There...EU is gone, AND dead..."
The Muslims are going to own Europe in the next ten years. The EU has seen to it that their native citizens practice "right to choose" to the extent that the native birth rates are at all time lows, whereas the Muslims are breeding like rabbits.
When I saw the headline I thought it was a joke.
There is no arrogance like that of a bureaucrat.
And do what? Let the hand-wringing French appease muslim terrorist's demands while the Russians stand by and watch? I hope the Russians are smarter than that.
But the EU won the Olympics. They beat the USA in medals. It has to be true because there was an idiot in the paper that said it was. Any organization that gets 82 olympic golds and beats the US is the winner and is right about anything else.
And they will probably scream if anyone dares to question them.
Another earlier poster is right. Eurotrash Losers. Putin should tell them to STFU.
Hostage-Takers (paid by the EU) Laughed as Kids Suffered
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,131430,00.html
Russia should give em the middle finger they so richly deserve.
This is a more than a little like blaming the victim!!! It is no different than blaming a woman who has been raped for being in the wrong part of town or wearing her skirt to short! Who the hell does the EU think they are???
No, no rush to judgment here. What a bunch of BS.
All last night, the German media was FULL of accusations (of course NONE of them were directed at the terrorist scum who KNOWINGLY committed these crimes!)
I guess Russia should have waited a while and let the children continue to be abused / starved by these inhuman bast**ds. Maybe through "negotiations", the crisis could have been resolved.
The EU has no clue about the world outside it's borders and believes that the rest of the world actually cares what these egotistical meglomaniacs "think".
The EU needs to stuff it. Start financing your OWN defenses without reliance on Uncle Sugar and THEN you MAY have a right to speak about such issues.
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