Posted on 09/04/2004 7:20:50 PM PDT by saquin
AFTER more than 24 hours in the sweltering heat of the school gymnasium in Beslan, one of the boys trapped inside could not take it any longer, writes Peter Conradi.
Summoning up his courage, he approached a hostage taker with a bayonet fixed to his assault rifle and asked him for a drink. It was probably the worst error that he could have made.
“Instead of giving him water, he drove his bayonet through the boy’s body,” said Stanislav Tsarakhov, 10, another captive standing nearby. “I don’t know if he died.”
Details of the incident emerged as children who escaped the siege described how their captors had deliberately deprived them of food and water, repeatedly firing guns into the ceiling to try to silence them. “The hostage takers would hold their machineguns to your temple and said that if there was a lot of noise, they would shoot everyone,” said a girl, who gave her name only as Zalina.
Diana Gadzhinova, 14, who also survived the siege, said that one of the greatest hardships had been the lack of food and drink.
“When we were let out to go to the lavatory, some children would run into a room where there were plants in pots and they would eat them,” she said.
“Others would hide the plants in their underwear and share them with their friends. But the hunger was not as bad as the thirst. Some children couldn’t take it and would urinate into their hand and drink.”
At another point, Gadzhinova said, they were all ordered to lie down. There were so many people packed into the gym that they had to lie on top of each other. “The gunmen warned that if there was an arm or a leg in their way, they would shoot at it without warning,” she said.
For Arsen Khasigov, 11, trapped with his mother, the worst thing was the sleep deprivation. “They kept us awake all the time,” he said. “They would pour our urine on our heads.”
Also horrific was the role played by two “black widows” — Chechen women who turned to terrorism to avenge husbands and brothers killed during the Kremlin’s military clampdown on the breakaway republic.
According to accounts from some captives, the women blew themselves up in the first hours of the siege, killing several men near them. Last night no trace of their bodies had been found.
Hydrogen bombs, 24 in a circle with 4 toward the center, should provide a unique parking-lot quality to that region. Nukes arent necessary.
Islam isn't a spiritual creed.
It is an insane bloody-handed murder-cult with similarities to Sicilian-style organized criminal enterprises, which has been at war with the rest of humanity for fourteen hundred years.
enough is enough.
Ban the creed.
Burn the mosques.
Nuke Mecca and Medina.
Thank you brother. Proud to be a class A infidel also!
I almost agree with you.
Make it "all who pisseth against the wall' and you've got it.
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The Russian cause is just but Russia is filled with incompetence and corruption due to the debilitating effects of being under the Soviets for so long. Under Putin things have gotten better or work better and the Chechens only operate in remote mountains in small groups but Russia has a long way to go. We shall see if this motivates them to end the Chechens once and for all.
Good God Almighty!!
Don't hold your breath. They're probably in a frenzy trying to make public "reasoning" for this outrage.
There is nothing paranoid about that. Paying attention to the facts is not a mental illness. These days it's a fact of life. Go Grandma. Protect these babies!
I just hope this opens the eyes of the world about these sub-human varmin. It took 4 little girls in Birmingham to open people's eyes to the injustices and brutal racism in the South. Maybe there's hope.
rediscover should read headscarf. No idea how that happened.
Just wondering, what country are you from?
>>Islam is the religion of evil. It is Satanic.>>
You're just seeing this NOW?
Or any muslim anywhere in the world.
COME ON PEOPLE STOP IT
WE NEED TO BE MORE SENSITIVE TO THESE TERRORISTS...
GEESH
/sarcasm off
Radical Islam comes from the core of Satan's soul.
Islam is of Satan, not just radical Islam. Christ said, "He who is not with me is against me". Islam is not with Christ and therefore is with Satan.
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