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A man carries a boy who was injured in a school seized by Chechen separatists (ISLAMIC TERRORISTS) in the town of Beslan near Chechnya.
I bet the man on the right is that boys father!
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A father holds his injured son who escaped from the seized school 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.
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A mother embraces her injured son who escaped from a seized school 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.
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A woman grieves over the body of her child killed when Russian troops stormed a school seized by gunmen in the town of Beslan, in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya (news - web sites), September 3, 2004. Russian soldiers battled Chechen separatists on Friday to end a two-day-old school siege and more than 150 people have probably died, Interfax quoted a presidential adviser as saying. Some children are still captive, but more than 400 hostages have been freed, it said.
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"In the name of Allah, the compassionate, the merciful..."
Camel-felchers.
that bottom photo . . . that's the unforgettable one that brings me to tears. I was so fortunate just now to tuck my not-so-little-ones into their beds, to hold them tight, stroke their hair, pray with them. I grieve with those parents for their excrutiating losses.