Posted on 09/04/2004 7:26:52 AM PDT by knighthawk
The bodies of 322 dead, of whom 155 are children, have been recovered from the school in Beslan - Russian Deputy Prosecutor-General Sergey Fridinskiy.
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Russian official says Beslan hostage-takers included two women; one man lynched
Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS
Beslan, 4 September: The operation to release hostages and render the terrorists harmless is over in Beslan, the chief of the Russian Federation Federal Security Service [FSB] Directorate for North Ossetia, Valeriy Andreyev, has told journalists.
"We can say with all confidence that there have been over 30 terrorists. They are nationals of Russia and of some foreign countries," he said.
According to the main theory, the preparation for the siege had been done in advance, Andreyev said. "They are professionally trained, and there could have been many more victims," he said.
A source in the operational headquarters told an ITAR-TASS correspondent that "the bodies of 27 dead gunmen had been taken away from the school building". He recalled that "26 bandits were killed when the special forces were compelled to begin combat hostilities, and another three gunmen were detained". Another terrorist who managed to escape from the school building alive was detained by policemen. But on the way to the operational headquarters, his relatives managed to force the police convoy away and lynch him.
According to the source, it is assumed that one of the terrorists was killed by his accomplices. "According to some information, he tried to escape from the school building and the other shot him dead and then beheaded him," the source said.
According to security bodies, there were two women among the terrorists. One of them killed herself, but the other one managed to escape. "Locals say they saw her near a hospital, she was wearing a medical white gown and looked vacant and frightened," the source said. However, there has been no official confirmation that she managed to escape.
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The face of terror
In its latest manifestation, terror took over a school in Beslan, Russia. And now more than 200 people, many of them children, are dead and perhaps 700 more injured. Certain people with a soft spot in their hearts for anarchy and violence will be decrying Russia's actions in ending the siege, which began Wednesday, when militants believed to be Chechen rebels stormed the school and took an estimated 1,500 hostages. Such people have not yet come to terms with the reality of terrorism.
There is no one to blame for the slaughter in Beslan other than the beasts who occupied the school, herded hordes of innocent children into a gym, treated them like animals, butchered others in front of them and were guaranteed to carry out other atrocities in the name of their cause. It is yet more proof that, even in the 21st century world, primitive beings exist.
Russian authorities suspect that perhaps 10 of the terrorists had links to Al Qaeda. That would not surprise anyone, would it?
The dead children of Beslan, and the other murdered innocents, speak to us from their coffins, pleading with the free world not to abandon its quest to stop terror in all its forms.
There is no point to terror other than to kill. There is no legitimate cause represented by any terrorists. And it is they, not children, who belong in coffins.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/228657p-196360c.html
Russian hostage drama death toll rises sharply
The death toll of the hostage drama in the southern Russian town of Beslan has risen sharply. The Russian authorities say at least 322 people were killed, 155 of them children. There are hundreds injured, many critically. Emergency workers have recovered 210 bodies from the school. Their work is hampered by mines left in the building. Russian security troops found a large amount of weapons, ammunition and explosives in the school. The intelligence agency, the FSB, says the weapons were probably hidden in the building during renovation work in the summer holidays.
The hostage drama began on Wednesday on the first day of school.
The Russian authorities say 32 Pro-Chechen militants were killed. The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has closed all the republic of North Ossetia's borders to prevent any remaining hostage-takers from fleeing the country. He also visited the town of Beslan in the Republic of North Ossetia.
http://www.rnw.nl/news/news.html#4138162
What? How can this be? Didn't they ask the UN or Paris for permission?
Another story with the words Moslems, Islam and Koran missing....
"his relatives managed to force the police convoy away and lynch him."
I bet the SOB was pleading for mercy when they got him.
Why? I don't understand. Call a dog a dog.
amazing, isn't it...
Does not compute ... does not compute ... does not ...
It is almost as though the proof-readers are instructed to edit those words out.
I wonder.
Did the relatives lynch him so he wouldn't talk? I don't follow this, either. However, a lynched Islamofascist is ok by me.
This makes me start to wonder about the "Other Than Mexicans" who cross the US/Mexico border. Could they be sleeper agents working to pre-position themselves?
"Does not compute ... does not compute ... does not ..."
Yes, I noticed that too but I would think that here something was lost in the translation.
It also dawned upon me that perhaps the locals took a lesson from the heros on the hijacked airliner in Pennsylvania.
Babblefish is not always your friend, that's my guess.
I am hopefully assuming 'lynched' means 'dead'?
There were articles posted overnight that he was killed by relatives of those killed in the attack. One of the articles had a funny line about the soldiers trying to keep the mob away... like they weren't trying that hard.
I would decry the lack of a plan to deal with the problem, and the lack of preparation for when things went badly. They had more than two days to get their act together, set up a proper cordon, prepare routes for emergency vehicles, and set up snipers on adjacent buildings to stop these people from firing on fleeing people.
As for now, an example needs to be made. A small town in Chechnya, carefully selected and not currently engaged, needs to disappear from the face of the earth - all of it.
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