I don't believe this and that's why the Russians don't trust their government...I heard this live on TV and have read differently in various reports...I have no idea about the construction and smuggling in the explosives, though I have read it.
Actually ALL were al Queda IslamoFascist assassins, definitely.
What, exactly, would prevent this from happening in East Orange, New Jersy? Time to close down immigration from the Middle East was ten years ago. Exactly what benefit do native American citizens derive from unchecked third world immigration? Not nearly enough to make it worth this kind of disaster.
The wires (Reuters, et al) are calling them "Chechen separatists," which is clearly untrue since 10 were Arabs, not Chechen.
I don't know what to believe, after reading an article on FR yesterday, about three still being alive, and the crowd beating and hanging another. Is the Ruskie gov't lying again? I'll just wait to read more.
Catching what I could on TV (Am. & Russian coverage), the Russians are about 20 years behind in covering events of this magnitude.
I thought I read yesterday here on FR that the Russians had taken 3 of the terrorists captive? But there were also 3 or 4 of them holed up in the basement of the school.
At any rate they know who led the operation (Basayev) and that a Saudi born Wahabist (Abu Walid) was second in command and the money guy. They know who the players are, now it's just a question of exterminating the vermin. Putin will take dramatic action IMHO. They have been hammered hard in the past 2 weeks.