Don't look at the women...
That's just sad.
Posted on 09/04/2004 2:59:04 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Saturday, September 4, 2004
By Laura Mansfield
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
As details emerge of the three-day siege of a Russian school by Islamic terrorists – which reportedly resulted in more than 200 dead and 700 injured – it is becoming apparent that the operation closely followed the terror roadmap laid out in issue 10 of Al Battar, al-Qaida's online training manual.
The tragic events unfolded in the town of Beslan, in the North Ossetia region, near Chechnya, as Islamic Chechen terrorists with suicide-bomb belts seized the school Wednesday, taking as many as 1,500 hostages, later releasing some. The siege ended in explosions, gunfire and the screams of fleeing children as commandos stormed the building.
The terrorism roadmap, written by Abdel Aziz Al Moqrin, leader of al-Qaida's Saudi Arabian cell who was killed in June, provides a detailed and simplified "Kidnapping for Dummies" guide.
Reports in various media outlets illustrate just how closely it appears the guidelines were followed.
A section of the document titled, "How to deal with hostages," advises the following:
Separate the young people from the old, the women and the children. The young people have more strength, hence their ability to resist is high. The security forces must be killed instantly. This prevents others from showing resistance.
Reports from the scene indicate that younger and stronger males were killed very early into the operation, following these instructions closely. The following news media reports further document this:
"Freed hostage Zalina Dzandzarova said that two suicide bombers had killed themselves on Wednesday -- they exploded themselves in the corridor, where male hostages were being kept.” – Kommersant Daily"Women with small infants greatly upset the fighters. In the morning they led them all out of the gym and put them apart on the second floor" -- Unidentified freed woman hostage to Izvestia daily
"People are lying on the floor next to one another. The terrorists separated us. Those, who did not feel very good, were placed in locker rooms. They made male hostages break the windows, because it was too stuffy in the gym." -- Freed hostage Zalina Dzandarova to Kommersant Daily
The kidnapping manual advises the kidnappers to, “Speak in a language or dialect other than your own, in order to prevent revealing your identity.” Based on eyewitness reports from freed captives, it appears that they followed this directive as well:
"In general, they do not talk much and they talk a lot in whispers ... . In the main they explained themselves with gestures. But it did happen that they spoke. By their speech, it is possible to say that among them were Chechens and also Ingush. We did not see their faces. They did not take off their masks." -- Unidentified freed woman hostage to Izvestia daily
The terrorists are advised by Moqrin to, "Wire the perimeter of the hostage location to deny access to the enemy." Reports from the scene indicate that one of the first actions of the terrorists was to mine the gym.
They told us to sit down and began to mine the gym. Two big explosive devices have been placed in the basketball hoop." -- Unidentified freed woman hostage to Izvestia daily"The terrorists planted a lot of mines and booby-traps filled with metal bolts in the gym." -- Defense Ministry spokesman to Interfax.
The guidelines that the terrorists followed appear to be comprehensive and are not limited to just operational instructions but include extensive instructions on planning. It recommends five possible reasons for conducting a kidnapping or hostage operation.
2. Put the government in a difficult situation that will create a political embarrassment between the government and the countries of the detainees.
3. Obtaining important information from the detainees.
4. Obtaining ransoms.
5. Bringing a specific case to light. For example, this occurred at the beginning of the cases in Chechnya and Algeria, with the hijacking of the French plane and the kidnapping operations performed by the brothers in Chechnya and the Philippines.
It appears that this operation was done for reasons 1 and 2 and possibly item 5. According to North Ossetian President Alexander Dzasokhov, the terrorists’ demands were simple, "to liberate Chechnya and declare its independence from Russia."
The kidnapping guide includes a description of the psychological makeup of would-be kidnappers, which should have been helpful to negotiators and law enforcement officials on the scene:
The roadmap describes two types of operations, secret kidnappings and public kidnappings. It outlines the stages of the operation. The first two stages are determining the target and gathering information on the location. It goes on to detail additional steps to be taken if the subjects are on a bus, a plane or in a convoy.
The plans outline how the team should be divided into various groups. The groups included:
The plans advise the kidnappers on how to handle negotiations. It encourages them to minimize the length of time that the negotiations are allowed to continue and advises them of the necessity of remaining calm at all times.
It particularly warns them to be alert for signs of stalling on the part of the negotiators.
"In case of any stalling, starting to execute hostages is necessary. The authorities must realize the seriousness of the kidnappers and their dedicated resolve and credibility in future operations.”
It summarizes as follows:
Don't look at the women...
That's just sad.
Why sad?
Because women are beautiful. Because women suffer so much abuse under Shari'a law. Because lovely women like the ones you and freedom44 have been posting are hidden by ugly veils under Shari'a. And because women suffer so much more than others during wartime...
Evil bastards who did this. I hope Russia hunts them all down and their organization, root and branch.
These nihilists are evil incarnate. Oppressed or in power, they will always be cruel. Look at the Taliban when they ruled. This is not a Chechnya oppression issue. This is a cult of violence and hatred.
Are you talking about the lovely women that blew up the planes last week? Are you talking about the lovely women that helped take children hostage this week, including the woman who purportedly blew up the gymnasium, sparking the end situation?
There is only one way to solve the "Islamic" problem and its what the left calls "genocide".
It will be extremely difficult for these subhuman monsters to perpetrate anymore bestial acts if they are all dead.
It will be no loss to the human race and make the world a better place.
Eventuallty the ragheads will get what they have been asking for.
They will all be martyrs.
The only question is how many of us they will take with them before we do what needs to be done.
Pope of Islam is Khomeini, Fahad of Saudi, OBL, Molla Omar, Talibans...
Risk talked about those poor women who have to live under tyranny and get through oppression in their daily lives.
Terrorists are different with regular people.
No. I'm talking about ordinary people, as F14 pilot says. Maybe the real question is more difficult to answer: is the war on terror total war?
BUMP!
Ping to Laura's new article, a very good one and one that should be read.
Right now the war on terror is a PC war because we are still weak. They (the terrorists) will eventually push us into a total war.
I was just at the grocery store .. A lot of folks were picking it up to read
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/
Excellent article, Laura.
They followed the manual to the letter.
Thanks for the ping granny. Very interesting article Laura.
Thanks.
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