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.
Eastern Europe today, Western Europe and North America tomorrow.
absolutely horrific what they did to these innocent babies
Still waiting to hear the condemnation from CAIR.
If the DUhers had to put up with something half as horrible as this, they would become the biggest warmongers on the planet.
Can we please kill them all? Please? Now?
Radical Islam comes from the core of Satan's soul.
Yes, it does.
And how about any word from Carter or the UN?
Remember in our old west days...the Indians would put a wet raw hide around the neck of their enemy and steak them out in the sun, and they would slowly strangle to death......that is sounding pretty good right now for these guys.
Speachless
You'll have a long wait.
That could have been YOUR son or grandson. John Kerry thinks the threat of terror is "over rated". Why is this man running for president? How can Democrats say they love this country? Yes, I question the patriotism of anyone who votes against Pres. Bush.
I'm a little more than half way though the book. Bin Laden has been laying the groundwork, from the is-slimeac perspective, for the use of WMD and the slaughter of innocents in the U.S. There are extensive footnotes and references.
He's warned the U.S. that he intends to attack. He has called (twice) for the President and people of the U.S. to convert to is-slime. He's gotten an is-slimeac scholar to prepare a treatise (25 pages of it) to justify it - including the death of children, including the death of women, including the death of mo-slimes. Per the book, by their standards, the use of WMD is now 100% justified. Bin Laden may be many things, but he knows the mo-slime street.
Folks, we are in a war to the death. And so far, only one side is fighting it as such. We had better wake up and smell the coffee - before we wake up dead.
This is heartbreaking. Islamic fanatics are savages! Their religion is Stone-Age barbaric.
It would not be a good idea to wait on their reply to take a potty break.
Ok that's it. I am entirely out of patience or charity.
Mr. Putin, you have my permission to simply nuke ikcheria out of existence. The evil emerging from this country make it a gateway to hades, imo.
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