Nice. Are you ready for this? Get a load of this headline:
Tuesday, September 7, 2004. Page 1.
"Basketball Bomb Sparked Beslan Battle"
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/09/07/001.html
A bomb falling off a basketball hoop sparked the fierce battle at the Beslan school.........
I love the totally independent Russian Media's new take you've posted there: if only those idiotic armed civilians had stopped firing into the school, the police would have had the whole situation in hand- why, the islamofascists were ON THE PHONE, saying they'd stop firing, because a falling bomb started the whole thing, you see, and that was a mistake, and also the authorities have now ascertained that the idiotic civilians are the ones who caused the terrorists to shoot the negotiators dead (at the exact same moment as the "accident", you see).
So the subsequent suicide bombings were NOT the authorities' fault, by any means.
Now, I have no inclination to fault the Russian police for this- it is the fault of the MUSLIMS. Period. But I also have no inclination to accept at face value the detail-free ass-covering spin coming out of the Putin-controlled media.