Posted on 09/05/2004 11:58:26 AM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
THE full horror of the Russian school atrocity began to emerge yesterday as traumatised children told horrific tales of stabbed babies and brutal rapes.
It has also emerged that scores of the 323 who died - including many children - had been shot in the back.
While despairing soldiers and rescue workers moved among the growing pile of body bags, it was revealed that an 18-month-old baby had been repeatedly stabbed by a black-clad terrorist who had run out of ammunition.
Other survivors told how screaming teenage girls were dragged into rooms adjoining the gymnasium where they were being held and raped by their Chechen captors who chillingly made a video film of their appalling exploits
They said children were forced to drink their own urine and eat the petals off the flowers they had brought their teachers after nearly three days without food or water in the stifling hot gym.
Their stories came as Russian officials warned that the final death toll of the siege of Middle School No 1 at Beslan in North Ossetia - in which up to 1,200 people were held captive - was likely to be more than 400.
The official toll yesterday stood at 323 which included 156 children, 10 Russian soldiers and two emergency service workers - 35 of the hostage-takers were also killed. Last night 434 people were being treated in hospital with 247 children and 85 adults in a critical condition.
A Russian official said six seriously injured children had been taken to Moscow for treatment.
"One of them is a child, just 18 months old, with many knife wounds," he said.
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I stood up in Church this morning and requested Prayers for all these people.
I then laid it all out to my congregation.
I told them in no uncertain terms that these people are terrorists, their only mission is to kill us plain and simple.
I also openly said a Prayer for President Bush and asked everyone to Pray for his reelection.
We must take the battle to them, if not that school could be in our little town.
They can find it in the Koran if it's done to an infidel, no matter how barbarous.
Yep, not word one on Cair. But I did find reports of demonstrations in chechnya against the hostage taking during the first few days.
"Ali Abdullah, a Bahraini scholar who follows the ultraconservative Salafi stream of Islam, condemned the school attack as "un-Islamic," but insisted Muslims weren't behind it. "I have no doubt in my mind that this is the work of the Israelis who want to tarnish the image of Muslims and are working alongside Russians who have their own agenda against the Muslims in Chechnya," said Abdullah"
i knew just knew it,,it was the jooooos,and 9/11..boy they are good huh
Thanks for this acknowledgement.
God Bless you eternally.
We will have minute by minute reports of Clinton's open heart surgery and this story will get nil on media.
And it keeps getting worse....
I have relatives in Florida, so I'd like regular updates on the hurricane. But constant coverage to the exclusion of bigger news is ridiculous. The biggest news story in the last couple years is getting no coverage at all. Shameful.
Nuke 'em.
Truly incensed by this are you? ... Well if you are not politically active for your chosen ideals...this is your reward for preferring 'J. Springer et al' {IMO 90%of the television broadcasts are adventures in mind-control in our USA !}to honest reportage of world news. The goal of honest reportage will not be achieved by 'letters to the editor' but by letters to the 'owners & advertisers'
kemosabe said that !
Yes, they do. If they thought Abu Gharaib (sp) was bad...
Yeah, we're getting strong aesthetics from this.
Remember, this scum was working with Al Qaeda members on this. It is part of global TERRORISM.
Good God!!!!!!
A jihadist who is killed fighting infidels goes directly to Muslim heaven. It is the one guaranteed thing in Islam. All your sins are forgiven by this act.
People don't understand this one thing about Islam: murder-suicide IS A SACRAMENT. It absolves you of all sins
What logically and inevitabley follows is that anything is permitted to a jihaadist who is about to die. Since upon your death in fighting the infidel you are assured of heaven, you can rape, booze, kill babies, whatever you want. It doesn't matter, since you are assured of paradise.
Red
I just can't imagine the depravity of these animals. Why? I'll never understand it.
I agree. This tragedy is monumental, on the scale of 9/11. But now that it's over, I guess that's all we'll hear about it. Maybe it's time to email the stations. Bah, if it wasn't so hard to find their addresses! That alone makes it so daunting. I think they deliberately make it hard to find their addresses, so that we won't send in any complaints.
Where is the newspaper that showed the fake pictures of G.I. "raping" Iraquis? the media is AWOL.
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