It turns out that a planned attack would have been the best thing....at least...no worse a thing.
I think that might be true, but the people didn't want that. The whole town was there with guns. They would not get back.
I wrote on another thread that perhaps when the terrorists are religious extremists that teaching people to run for it might be best.
The terrorists used negotiations to wire up the school with bombs. The terrorists want TV theater for a few days and then for everyone to die.
This way the government will be blamed. Their real target is the government.
People in Rome have offered to take in children from Beslan who need to recoer in quiet.
http://www.rambler.ru/db/news/msg.html?mid=5003844&s=260005083