Chuckle...I like people that stay steadfast.
I hear what you are saying, Spannie. It's just that every major incident, e.g., the Ruby Ridge; Waco; the OK City bombing; 911; and Beslan, among others, gives birth to a bevy of conspiracies. It cannot be helped; it's the nature of the beast. Some conspiracies may hold truth, others probably not.
I do understand what you are saying about Russia under Putin in general, yet I find it very difficult to buy the idea in particular that Putin deliberately placed Special Forces outside the school to produce and/or amplify the massacre there that ensued. To what and to whose benefit would this have been? In your eyes, how has this tragedy assisted Putin?
Did Putin order his guys on site to secure the building and reclaim the children and teachers, yes, I feel certain of this. Could an accident have occurred? Yes, again, because that's always possible.
I do think that it would be helpful for Russia to release the identities of all the terrorists killed at Beslan though.
"yet I find it very difficult to buy the idea in particular that Putin deliberately placed Special Forces outside the school to produce and/or amplify the massacre there that ensued"
What would you call nerve gassing the Opera House and not sending enough antidote - thereby killing hundreds of innocents?
I call it the usual hamhanded, drunken Russian bavuro mixed with stupidity and egocentrism.