At a hearing last week, Kulayev testified that a bomb that had been set up by the hostage-takers detonated on Sept. 3 after Russian snipers shot a gunman who was keeping his foot on the detonators. This contradicted what the authorities said, which was that a bomb in the school gym, where the more than 1,200 hostages were being held, went off after it fell from a basketball hoop.Oh, so it's the authorities' fault, and not that of the terrorists who huddled the people into the gym, planted the explosives, put their feet on the detonators.... I get it. /sarc