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Boy who begged for water was bayoneted
The Sunday Times (UK) ^ | 9/5/04 | Peter Conradi

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: beslan; cair; cairsilentonchechnya; chechnya; filthybeasts; jihad; jihadinrussia; muslims; nukemecca; ossetia; religionofpeace; religionofpieces; russia; silenceissupport; silenceofcair; trop; whereiscair
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1 posted on 09/04/2004 7:20:51 PM PDT by saquin
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To: saquin

Eastern Europe today, Western Europe and North America tomorrow.


2 posted on 09/04/2004 7:22:30 PM PDT by MegaSilver
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To: saquin

absolutely horrific what they did to these innocent babies


3 posted on 09/04/2004 7:22:40 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: saquin

Still waiting to hear the condemnation from CAIR.


4 posted on 09/04/2004 7:23:03 PM PDT by TBarnett34 (The Democrats: 9/10 girlie-men in a 9/11 world)
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To: saquin
Islam is a "Religion of Peace". /sarcasm
5 posted on 09/04/2004 7:23:25 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Hannity Was Right, FReepers Tend To Eat Their Own)
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To: saquin
Frigging Muslim savages. What they did to these children should be done to every pagan-worshiping heathen male between 15 and 40. Let the next generation draw their own lesson from it.


6 posted on 09/04/2004 7:23:42 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: saquin
The world needs to wake up to the brutality of the muslims culture. It might help if the media would quite calling them Chechen rebels.
7 posted on 09/04/2004 7:24:05 PM PDT by boxerblues
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If the DUhers had to put up with something half as horrible as this, they would become the biggest warmongers on the planet.


8 posted on 09/04/2004 7:24:14 PM PDT by Democratshavenobrains
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To: saquin

Can we please kill them all? Please? Now?


9 posted on 09/04/2004 7:24:32 PM PDT by Aggie Mama
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To: saquin

Radical Islam comes from the core of Satan's soul.


10 posted on 09/04/2004 7:25:04 PM PDT by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (Cream rises to the top, but in a secular culture, so does the slime.)
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath

Yes, it does.


11 posted on 09/04/2004 7:25:25 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: TBarnett34

And how about any word from Carter or the UN?


12 posted on 09/04/2004 7:25:38 PM PDT by Libertina
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To: saquin
Yup...this is the religion of peace...yup, this is considered just AOK with their leaders all over the world...yup we need to quit picking on them, they are just so misunderstood...

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.

13 posted on 09/04/2004 7:26:20 PM PDT by Jewels1091
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Speachless


14 posted on 09/04/2004 7:26:30 PM PDT by Bahbah
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To: TBarnett34

You'll have a long wait.


15 posted on 09/04/2004 7:27:09 PM PDT by NavVet (“Benedeict Arnold was wounded in battle fighting for America, but no one remembers him for that.”)
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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.


16 posted on 09/04/2004 7:27:36 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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I've been reading "Imperial Hubris" by anonymous...if you think what we've witnessed is bad, you've seen nothing yet.

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.

17 posted on 09/04/2004 7:29:01 PM PDT by neutrino (Globalization “is the economic treason that dare not speak its name.” (173))
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To: saquin

This is heartbreaking. Islamic fanatics are savages! Their religion is Stone-Age barbaric.


18 posted on 09/04/2004 7:29:09 PM PDT by kcar (www.TheUNsucks.com)
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To: TBarnett34

It would not be a good idea to wait on their reply to take a potty break.


19 posted on 09/04/2004 7:29:14 PM PDT by Adrastus (Eat dirt and die, Girlie man.)
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To: saquin; RussianConservative; silversky; katnip

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.


20 posted on 09/04/2004 7:30:31 PM PDT by MarMema
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