I am struck that the female hostage-takers look merely asleep from the weapons gas. I didn't detect the wounds or 'startled' pose that come with gunfire.
I also am saddened to be reminded that these Islamic terrorists are ethnic Slavs, as Slavic as their Russian counterparts, yet they have nursed an abiding hatred of Christianity and have rejected their authentic religious and cultural heritage for a bankrupt death cult.
Your point about Slavic ancestry (I think indicating how the Islamic death cult twists people's perceptions of the world) is not correct in this case, although it WOULD be accurate regarding the Bosnian Muslims, who were originally Serbian or Croatian but were in the small minority that went over to be exempt from the "boy tax" etc under Turkish tyranny.
Actually, the Chechens are no more Slavic than Osama bin Laden. Chechnya has only been inside Russia since about the 1860's, and before that has been essentially mountain tribes that were converted to Islam centuries before the Slavs even came near the area.
Our prayers are with the hostages and their families, and with the bravery and skill of the rescuers.
I believe the networks did a real disservice by not reporting very much on this, yet I also believe that had there been a huge explosion and a thousand people killed, they would have rushed to cover it.