Work to arm teachers in your local areas...they are going to try this here, too.
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Posted on 08/31/2004 11:52:44 PM PDT by HAL9000
MOSCOW (AP) -- Armed men seized a school in the Russian region of North Ossetia Wednesday morning and were in a gun battle with police, news reports said. The region borders with warring Chechnya.The seizure took place on the first day of the Russian school year, when it was likely that a large number of parents had accompanied their children to class.
The reports said the school was in the city of Beslan, which is about 10 miles north of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia.
Vladimir Yakovlev, President Vladimir Putin's envoy for the southern region of Russia that includes North Ossetia, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying it was unclear how many children, teachers and parents may be held in the school.
There were no immediate reports of whether the assailants were making demands or indications of who they were. Police could not immediately be reached for comment.
In 1995, Chechen rebels led by warlord Shamil Basayev seized a hospital in the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk, taking some 2,000 people hostage. The six-day standoff ended with a fierce Russian police assault. Some 100 people died in the incident.
Kids with their parents. The school selected precisely because it was a school. Radical Islam may have gone berserk.
On first of September began from capture of school by insurgents
In Northern Ossetia insurgents have grasped one or two schools. About it informed in law enforcement bodies of republic.
On the preliminary data, about eight o'clock in the morning the armed people have rushed into school N1 of the city of Beslan. They have taken in hostages of pupils and teachers. Also there is an information that school N6, however authorities her yet is seized have not confirmed.
Now in city sounds of firing are audible. Under the available information, militiamen have entered fight with insurgents, grasping school N1. In the Ministry of Internal Affairs of republic informed, that one of terrorists is killed, also is informed on several wounded men, however the exact quantity of victims is not known.
Now to a place of incident all operative services of republic are put forward. They will negotiate with insurgents. Any requirements from the last did not act yet.
As informed RBC a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Northern Ossetia, in capture of school N1 participated 17 person.
On all schools of Northern Ossetia solemn rulers are cancelled. The information on an event in Beslan is specified.
Can you post a link please?
Terrorists take 200 schoolchildren hostage in SOssetia
01.09.2004, 10.51
VLADIKAVKAz, September 1 (Itar-Tass) - Unknown armed people seized a school in North Ossetia’s city of Beslan at about 10:00 Moscow time on Wednesday.
September 1 is the beginning of the school year in Russia.
The band has taken hostage about 200 children.
A shootout is going on near the school, a spokesman at the regional Emergency Situations Ministry told Itar-Tass.
Taking of hostages in Ossétie of North
At least 200 schoolboys are taken as an hostage by a commando of 17 people in a school of the autonomous republic of Ossétie of North. The takers of hostages are carrying belts of explosives, according to the Interfax agency. (AFP)
200? Boys?? Unreal.
Seems to be a continuation of terrorist attacks on Russia going on the last few days according to BBC news at the moment. Prayers to the children, parents and teachers being held hostage. May God protect and watch over them, and help them through this ordeal.
Attackers, including some with suicide belts, seize school in Russia's North Ossetia region, officials and reports say
MOSCOW (AP) -- More than a dozen armed attackers, some wrapped in suicide-bomb belts, seized a school in the Russian region of North Ossetia early Wednesday and were in a gun battle with police, officials and news reports said.
The seizure took place on the first day of the Russian school year, when it was likely that a large number of parents had accompanied their children to class.
Sergei Vlasov, a spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry in Moscow, confirmed the assault and a spokesman for the Interior Ministry's southern region office said an undetermined number of hostages had been taken.
The Interfax news agency, citing Ismel Shaov, a regional spokesman for the Federal Security Service, said there were 17 attackers, both make and female, and the gang included some who were wearing suicide-bomb belts.
The attack took place in the city of Beslan, about 10 miles north of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, a republic that borders warring Chechnya.
There were no immediate reports of whether the assailants were making demands or indications of who they were.
However, Chechen rebels who raided a Moscow theater in 2002, seizing hundreds of hostages, included women who were heavily wrapped with explosives.
In 1995, Chechen rebels led by warlord Shamil Basayev seized a hospital in the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk, taking some 2,000 people hostage. The six-day standoff ended with a fierce Russian police assault. Some 100 people died in the incident.
Putin - are you on the side of the West?
What allies? They same ones who aligned with us when we were attacked?
1) cave in and look like a massive puss
2) nuke Chechnya and say "ok, you can have you independence" and walk away from that mess
He can always go ask his French and German allies to help him invade. The French have already shown they're ready to go to war over the head scarf in school issue. Leave it to France to go to war over a fashion statement.
Just DANG...
What a mess.
Islam at its best today.
Just speechless.
Yes, but remember Islam is a religon of peace. The insurgents must have gone to the school to teach the children about the value of peace. This will all end peacefully in a few hours with the Chechen insurgents linking hands in a circle and singing Kumbaya. /saracasm off.
Well anyway, it will all end in a few days.
And Putin is building an nuclear reactor in Iran.
Just wait when the rest of us get to pay the price for that gem.
Fox just broke in with this.
Breaking on FOX now - they have video - Up to 400 (200 children and 200 adults) being held hostage
Work to arm teachers in your local areas...they are going to try this here, too.
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On the surface this looks very bad, but Putin also knows the GPS coordinates of all their key nuclear facilities. ;-)
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