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 am sure in that area with that many people watching, they got the right guy. It would not be very hard to do given the circumstances.
Chances of it not being the right guy are nil to none.
There is old Law and Order reset
Put him in the shower room at Sing sing if you want get revenge=Det Lennie Briscoe
Alan Kargiyev, university student in Vladikavkaz "Fathers will bury their children, and after 40 days [the Orthodox Christian mourning period]... they will take up weapons and seek revenge."
If this event had occured here in the U.S. and this guy had been shown on TV being escorted by hooded guards and screaming for mercy, right now we would have slimely leftists on Hannity and Colmes making his case.
BTTT
When I see this creature I think of the scene in SHO GUN where they boil a guy in water.
The chef makes him live and scream in pain for three days.
Let's get a big kettle.
WTF?!?! By this same logic, 9/11 was an 'embarassment' to us.
...what liberal media?
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