They Knifed Babies, They Raped Girls

Sunday Mirror ^ | September 5, 2004 | Euan Stretch

[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.

[Honorary Serb]

O Lord, save Your people,
And bless Your inheritance.
Grant victories to the Orthodox Christians
Over their adversaries.
And by virtue of Your Cross,
Preserve Your habitation.

[broadsword]

Grant victories to the Orthodox Christians

Oh, come on, brother. Why cut us out of it? That's not very smart. We Roman Catholics are in this with you.

For that matter, so is every non-Muslim in the world, threatened by this satanic death-cult!

[skr]

Apparently those with the video camera weren't planning on martyrdom.

[Syncro]

I just don't believe this is what the majority of Chechens want.
I suspect this is a case of islam trying to take what doesn't belong to it.
Imagine muslims trying to take over Florida, and the MSM referring to them as Floridian Separatists.
That's what I'm picturing here.

Michael Savage made that same argument with a liberal caller the other day, only about the SouthWest and the La Raza and Aztlan issue.

Savage's statement to this guy that was saying that Russia should just stay out of Chechnya was that if Mexicans claimed our SouthWest should we just give it to them?

You are completely correct in your second sentence but unfortunately the muzlims believe where ever they set foot is their land and anyone in it must convert or be killed.

Of course at first they are very tolerant as they replace the Churches with Mosques (like in England and other areas of Europe) then when they get enough numbers they start their program.

In France it is head scarves. Incrementalizm.

Chechnya is historically part of Russia.

[7.62 x 51mm]

In short, they'd get *WACO'd*, wouldn't they?

(((sigh)))

What is wrong with the world?

[OldBlondBabe]

"Not to mention the damn hurricane. If I have to see another moron newsman standing in the rain talking about the SOS I will puke."

I was beginning to wonder if I was insensitive. I realize that the hurricane is an important story, but EVERY time I've turned on FOX the past several days, the story has been the damned hurricane.

[Honorary Serb]

I'm a Lutheran, but I can post this traditional Orthodox liturgical hymn (or troparion) without changing it, since it fits so well in this situation, with the Russian (and North Ossetian) people under attack as Orthodox Christians. Orthodox Christians--especially Serbs and Russians--are, like Jews, the islamists' "favorite" targets. However, as we all know, Americans of any faith or of none have become targets as well.

Especially as an Evangelical Orthodox Lutheran, if I merely change "Orthodox" to "orthodox", it applies to me as well. I hope that it then applies to you, too.

[BykrBayb]

It's not just you. If you have the time to read through this long thread, you'll see that's the prevailing sentiment. I have relatives in Florida, so I'm interested in an occasional update, but there really is bigger news. As someone else elequently pointed out, hurricane season happens every year like clockwork. If you don't have time to read this whole thread, you must read post #426. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1208007/posts?page=426#426

[broadsword]

OK, my friend. Got ya. Have you donated to them yet? I did. Going to get my friends to do the same if I can.

Relief for the innocent victims

God bless our Russian brothers and sisters. I have hoped for so long that we would be more united since the fall of the Soviet Union. Clintoilet hurt that cause so much, but, perhaps this will bring us together. So I pray.

Dominus vobiscum,

Jesse

[silversky]

Even within Russia, there are people blaming Putin instead of the real culprits - the terrorists,

A big minus in Russia's current situation. But not to worry, Putin will be kicking some fat lazy commie a$$ real good.

I worry more about the "civilized" world that offers all kinds of insane "help", money, police etc. Wake up and name the enemy. Radical Islam, Wahhabi scum, just repeat it all day long. No better help than that.

[ruthles]

I just heard Pat Benator singing "Hell is for Childen" and I thought how horribly true this can be.

[proudofthesouth]

Immediately send every last one of them to Allah.

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[OldBlondBabe]

"I, for one, am more disturbed about what occurred in Russia last week than I can recall being upset about anything since 9/11/01. And it’s not just the terrorism, but the international media coverage of it."

Thank you for referring me to these remarks. I too, have not felt this disturbed about an event since 9/ll.

As I stood in my kitchen today preparing dinner, I listened to a FOX news reporter interviewing someone in Florida about losing his or her home and personal belongings. While I do not wish to minimize the impact this sort of loss may have on someone's life, or future, it pales in comparison to having watched your child, or the children of others, terrorized, tortured and murdered. I don't understand how this barbaric act of terrorism can be so easily shrugged off by the media...even FOX is devoting little attention to it, IMO.

[BykrBayb]

I haven't looked at the tv since this morning. (Well, I glanced at when I walked in the room to talk to hubby and he was watching cartoons.) I couldn't stand the contant weather report. They might be showing news by now for all I know, but I'm not going to check.

[American in Israel]

The militants also issued a written message demanding the release of all those arrested during the investigation in the nighttime hit-and-run raids on crucial facilities in Ingushetia on June 21-22.

Well at least we know who their partners are. Execute them publicly.

[Libertina]

Joanie, this is a very well written piece. Thank you - it is astonishing that the American people are kept so much in the dark by the mass media. If they would just reach out to a few other news sources they could have a better chance at hearing the truth.

[Libertina]

Lives so seldom go as planned. They have truly given themselves over to evil, there are no other words for it.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Re: Sensitive war........

I listen to radio, and have been shocked to hear the hosts
attempt to get the subject of the Russian School attacks into the conversation......and not getting a reaction.

We have too many kerry type people in this world.

Laura Mansfield will be on the Jerry Brown show in an hour,
at least she knows what she is talking about, I am anxious to hear her report on Russia.

I am like Mike Savage, I want the fellow Americans to feel the rage, not be good little un fellows.