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.
Thanks. Your ten pictures are worth far more than 10,000 words.
"We need to fight a more sensitive war on terrorism" Senator Lurch exclaimed...sensitive to what!.
"Like "Al Queida" will really appreciate our Oprah side showing in the war on terrorism" to quote our Vice president Dick Cheney. How true his statement is/was. 300+ victims mostly children fallen to the religion of peace, it shows "the real truth/face of the evil religion of islam"!
Hey Lurch, take this and try to spin it....
His grandson knew how to handle these quasi-humans as well.
"Summoning up his courage, he approached a hostage taker with a bayonet fixed to his assault rifle and asked him for a drink."This is what we're up against. These monsters would gladly do this to American children in the U.S. or to any children anywhere."Instead of giving him water, he drove his bayonet through the boy’s body.”
These monsters must be stopped. President Bush is the best leader to accomplish this. Note that 9/11 had never been repeated--thanks to President Bush.
Muslims the world over must ask themselves if they support a religion that produces monsters and if the god they serve is in reality Satan and not God.
There is always a first time. Just arm every civilian and provide legal justification to kill all of the insurgents. Forgive mistakes as necessary. BTW, I think the Russian was wrong. The Chinese have done so.
>>Yes, absolutely! Islam will submit to civilization or be annihilated!>>
NO way... Islamics do not think or reason like Westerners. Remember, their book tells them to kill all who will not convert to Islam. Where do you get the idea that a killing, warring religion like Islam, that has killed millions over multiple millenia, will bow to societies that perform the very things that inflame their anger?
You cannot expect Islamics to be reasonable or to accept the Western view. To do so would be a vote for suicide. Bush is right... appeasement doesnt work! They must be killed. If we dont, they will.
There are no "surviving terriots".....they were beat to death by irate parents.
And that person should be beotch-slapped from here to Kingdom come...Zell Miller style.
The BBC writers and editors from WWII must be spinning in their graves. Can you imagine what the current BBC would be broadcasting if they were around during WWII?
"The bombs falling on London are entirely our fault, because of the way we humiliated Germany during the Great War.!"
they're dispicable!
Mark
Why do we not ever see pictures of 911 on TV? Why?
Why the age restrictions? These sub-humans seem to use children as young as 7 to be suicide bombers in Israel.
there is alot of damage a male over 40 can still do.
Kill them all and let God sort them out.
Huh? Hydrogen bombs are "nukes."
OK, if you really want to get technical, "nukes" or nuclear weapons are fission bombs, either plutonium or uranium based. Hydrogen bombs are fusion weapons, more commonly known as "Thermonuclear weapons." They actually need a small fission bomb to generate the energy needed to start the fusion reaction.
Mark
Then we will kill all of them.
your 172 is a brilliant piece of work and should be pasted on every street corner. Please consider marketing it for us to do so.
My solution to these radical Islamic nations is simple:
"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. That's the only way to be sure."
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