Posted on 05/31/2005 3:32:38 PM PDT by Cornpone
Vladikavkaz - The lone surviving hostage-taker of the deadly Beslan school siege in the southern Russian republic of North Ossetia told the court on Tuesday that the group would have released hundreds of children if politicians they had requested had arrived to negotiate.
Nurpashi Kulayev said: "The commando chief, the colonel, was ready to release 150 children for each of the negotiators if they had come."
Kulayev was speaking during his trial in the supreme court of North Ossetia in Vladikavkaz, 20km from Beslan.
According to authorities, 1 128 people were taken hostage on September 1 with 330, including 186 children, killed when security forces raided the school two days later.
The accused said his commander had called in vain for North Ossetia president Alexander Dzasokhov and Ingushetia president, Murat Zyazikov, to come and negotiate with the hostage-takers.
Dzasokhov was severely criticised by the families of the victims for his poor management of the Beslan crisis.
While he admitted to have been one of the commandos at Beslan, the 24-year-old Chechen had pleaded not guilty to eight charges including "terrorism", murder and hostage-taking.
Remember Beslan!!
There are sympathizers here on FR who would agree that "we" were at fault. I am not among them, and was shocked to see them sympathizing with the terrorists.
Check those signup dates and posting frequency. The signal to noise ratio on FR has gotten worse ever since the 2004 election began.
Even some sleeper accounts have been reactivated.
Who's going to contradict him?
As a parent of a 4 and 6 year old, I will never forget that horror or those animals. I d*mn the latter...
Muslims are just like the UN: Liars and child rapists.
The Beslan Horror- When Hell Came Calling
various FR links | 09-07-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209052/posts
Not just on FR, the old media and the democrats in the House and Senate also.
Liar Liar pants on fire.
Why the h#!! are they giving this animal a platform to blabber from? He admits he participated in the takeover of the school, with his pals who murdered a bunch of innocent little children because they didn't get the attention they wanted. Why is he still alive to blabber? The parents of these murdered children shouldn't have to listen to this crap!
Back in the days of the 'old west' many a cowboy used a lasso made from braided leather. I suppose there were a few rustlers hanged with them too. Now I wonder if there might be a market for ropes made from braided pigskin.
There is also a market for ammo made with cast bullets lubed with some lard.
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