Russia's Putin Orders Crackdown After School Siege

ABC News / Reuters ^ | Sept. 4, 2004 | Richard Ayton and Oliver Bullough

[Walkin Man]

...at least 250 people were killed... 60 more bodies were pulled from the school's ruins on Saturday, 36 of them children...Officials said 27 hostage-takers were killed and three taken alive.

I hope the three live Islamic child-killers wish they had never been born before the Russians kill them and bury them with a pig!

[freebilly]

I'm tempted to send Putin a history of our Civil War with the section on Sherman's March to the Sea highlighted....

[tallhappy]

Putin, easily re-elected to a second term in March, must now reassure Russians they are safe from the threat of separatists.

Yeah, all those Russian "separtists" who are Arab from the middle east.

[Walkin Man]

Exactly!

[Diddle E. Squat]

Explosives and arms used by the gunmen were smuggled into the building well in advance, during summer building work on the school, Interfax quoted an unnamed regional security source as saying on Saturday.

[Jeff Chandler]

>>the European Union said in a statement it wanted an explanation from Russia "how this tragedy could have happened."
<<

EU go to hell.

[Mo1]

Western governments offered sympathy to Putin. But the European Union said in a statement it wanted an explanation from Russia "how this tragedy could have happened."

Is the European Union really that stupid to ask a question like that ?

[Michael121]

It is time for Russia to use USSR tactics. Like the hijacker who had a plane and demanded whatever, sitting on the tarmac. A box was delivered and inside was what was left of his brother.

No more hijackings.

Hunt them down and kill them. No mercy. No quarter.

[Husker24]

Do the Russians have any heavy bombers left?

[tallhappy]

North Ossetia is the only predominantly Orthodox province in the otherwise mostly Muslim North Caucasus. But the whole region is a tinderbox of small national groups and any crackdown carries a risk of disrupting further a delicate ethnic balance.

So ABC still can't say this is about Jihad and transcends simple "separatism" and blames it on a "tinderbox of national groups."

Even after stating the salient info on why this area was attacked: "North Ossetia is the only predominantly Orthodox province in the otherwise mostly Muslim North Caucasus."

[BBell]

>>North Ossetia is the only predominantly Orthodox province in the otherwise mostly Muslim North Caucasus. But the whole region is a tinderbox of small national groups and any crackdown carries a risk of disrupting further a delicate ethnic balance.<<

Sounds like another Kosovo Like situation waiting to happen. It's a good thing Clinton isn't in, he'd want to bomb them.

[Walkin Man]

Yeah, all those Russian "separtists" who are Arab from the middle east.

Yeah, I didn't know OBL was a Russian separtist!?!

[dasboot]

But the European Union said in a statement it wanted an explanation from Russia "how this tragedy could have happened."

OOOHHH! That really pisses me off. Talk about tempting fate. And belittling Putin. Payback's a BEYOTCH, Euroweenies.

[ChadGore]

Send Putin some the troops from the eeewwww (eu).

The same troops that liberated the european continent from the old USSR occupation should be used to help defend Russia today.

[Diddle E. Squat]

But the European Union said in a statement it wanted an explanation from Russia "how this tragedy could have happened."

Sounds exactly like something a Pat Leahy, Nancy Pelosi, or Hillary Clinton would say.

[Walkin Man]

Damn...

I hope and pray that this evil is not being set up here in the USA even as we speak...

[Husker24]

There werent any European troops that liberated Eastern Europe. The Eastern Europeans did it themselves.

[Walkin Man]

Not sure but they definitely have some ICBM's in silo's ready to strike at a moments notice.

[dasboot]

Every terrorist mass murder is an opportunity for communists to embarrass their enemies, right? Symbiosis.