Posted on 09/05/2004 2:25:53 PM PDT by Apollo
Russian TV has shown pictures of a man who is believed to have been one of the hostage-takers at the school in the southern town of Beslan. Channel One state television showed the man being dragged into a room by two masked commandoes.
His hands cuffed and locked behind his back, he makes a plea to the camera.
It is the very first evidence provided by the Russian authorities to back up their claim to have captured three of the hostage-takers alive.
In the footage, shown on Sunday evening, the man, whose accent strongly suggests he is from the region and not a foreigner, makes a plea to the camera.
"I really didn't go there to die and I still don't want to die. I swear, I swear to Allah the almighty, that I want to live," he says.
'Triumphalist'
The presenter says the alleged hostage-taker was trying to escape when the special forces caught him.
He had apparently shaved off his beard and was trying to flee with the liberated hostages.
The report was highly triumphalist and ended with images of the corpses of the dead hostage-takers crawling with flies.
The reports may go some way to reassuring ordinary Russians, many of whom are confused by the contradictory messages about casualty figures and exactly what happened in Beslan.
The incident has been a massive embarrassment for the Kremlin, but the message from state television tonight is that everything is now under control.
I agree with the bacon sentiments.
Either:
turn him over to the grieving parents.
OR
forced conversion to Christianity (is there a passage
in the Koran about
this?)
Just damn.
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You are being way too kind
I am having flashbacks to 9/11, in a way, and in spades.
Vengence is not mine.
Ohhh boy did he just screw up. He's going to be tortured endlessly now.
Another face of the Religion of Peace.
Drawn & Quaarterd sounds appropriate.
I think the way to deal with him is to make him name names of his accomplices and everyone in his family on Chechen TV. Play the tapes 6 times a day for a week on TV then set him free in the idiot section of Chechnia.
Time to bring back good old Vlad. Vlad the Impaler.
Grease up a six inch diameter fence post - roughly turned with lots of slivers and a dull rounded tip - and place the naked terrorist on top of that. Once the process starts, there's no stopping it. Those last minutes would be a mere downpayment on the Hell these @ssholes deserve.
You should be praying allah, the almighty, have mercy on my soul that I die a quick death.
The rest of us don't give a sh*t and hope you die a long, slow, agonizing painful death that lasts for weeks
Thank you for posting this Apollo.
"triumphalist"
My sympathy meter is broken, but that won't keep Al Beeb from trying. No wonder murder-apologist "peace" swine cite the "global media" as authority for their depraved lies.
Very true, but it does make it less frustrating thinking these evil people should pay the price in the here and now.
Only if it take five or six days to do it.
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