Beslan showed the true face of the Islamic Jihadists. They will stop at nothing. They will attack us at our most precious and weakest points. I lived in Northern Virginia when the Islamic terrorist were sniping at us from random places. It was pure terrorism. Imagine that on a larger scale. Targeting random schools,gas stations or shopping centers anywhere.
In Beslan one of the things that you did not mention was that the Islamic terrorist raped and possibly murdered several of their hostages, many of them were young school girls.
I will say that when people I know talk about 9/11 I always tell them to look up Beslan. Beslan to me is much more of a wake up call then 9/11.