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Indeed..Lord have mercy..Prayers continue for the hostages.
Has anyone heard of ANY Muslim community decrying this, or offering to go in and talk to their co-religionists? I haven't, and I guess hell will relocate to Antarctica before that happens.
I've said it many times before; once more can't hurt:
The world had best be glad that I wasn't the US President on September 11th, 2001 - for on Sept 12th, from the eastern border of Israel to the western border of India; and from the southern border of Russia to the Indian Ocean - all would be a sheet of radioactive glass!
None of us - No Christian, Jew, atheist, agnostic, Hollywood nutcase, limo liberal DemoCrap, or good conservative Republican will EVER be truely safe again until EVERY LAST ONE OF THESE ISLAMIC "JIHADISTS" IS DEAD!
God Almighty, I call upon You. Even as You call upon us to act, I call upon You to save these children. Comfort their pain. What would You have us do?
You are God. There is a quiet place, and peace for the heart. There is a heaven. But if Your Kingdom come, Your Will be done on earth as it is in heaven, then give us strength and faith to do as You have called us to do. Let us see there is a way...
Save these, the little children. You are God. In Jesus name...
Up to 1,500 Hostages in Russia Siege
Sept. 3, 2004 — By Oliver Bullough
BESLAN, Russia (Reuters) - An armed gang that stormed a school in southern Russia may be holding as many as 1,500 hostages, far above the official figure of 350, newspapers quoted freed hostages on Friday as saying.
The witnesses, among 26 women and infants released on Thursday, said the group of up to 40 heavily armed captors was refusing to give hostages food and water.
"You know, there aren't 350 people in there, but 1,500 in all. People are lying one on top of another," Zalina Dzandarova, a 27-year-old woman, told the Kommersant daily.
The hostages were seized on Wednesday morning -- the first day of the school year in Russia -- by an armed gang in a raid that bore all the hallmarks of a Chechen rebel operation. The Gazeta daily quoted a woman saying there were 1,020 hostages.
With the clock ticking for President Vladimir Putin to end the crisis, security experts warned of a possible bloody end. The attack is the latest in a fortnight following the bombing of two airliners and a Moscow metro station.
"The situation is serious. We have come up against very cruel people," Leonid Roshal, a pediatrician who has been mediating with the hostage-takers, told relatives.
Officials say around 16 people were killed in the initial stages of the assault on Wednesday. Little is known about the loyalties or demands of the gang but their attack bears the hallmarks of Chechen separatists.
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
Izvestiya said 860 pupils attended School No.1 in Beslan, North Ossetia. But the number of people on the campus would have been swelled by parents and relatives attending the first day ceremony traditional in Russian schools.
Dzandarova said the masked gang struck at 9 a.m. on Wednesday. They began shooting into the air.
"Everybody, parents and children, ran in panic into the school building," she said, adding that the attackers killed people left in the school yard and those who resisted.
Two women assailants blew themselves up in a corridor, killing a number of male hostages. Hostages were later herded into the school gym, where the captors booby-trapped the basketball hoops, an unidentified mother told Izvestiya.
Dzandarova said some injured hostages were taken out of the sports hall into a corridor and "finished off." Others feeling unwell were sent to the changing rooms.
The captors were well organized and resting in shifts.
"None of the terrorists removed their masks. Nobody can see their faces. They aren't tired. They are resting in turns," she said. "They call themselves Chechens, and demand that Russia withdraws its forces from Chechnya."
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http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20040903_17.html
Your prayers are needed.
This is why we must call EVIL for what it is....Islam is EVIL always was always will be....I hope Putin has the stomach for this one because it is going to get real ugly before it gets any better...Notice how the Germans want to help Russia in its battle with the terrorists? Go figure they want a treaty to that effect....could anything go wrong with a treaty between Germany and Russia? naaah
Tell me folks how the hell are they going to get those kids out? The last time this happened in Russia it went on for at least a week.
On top of it all... What the hell are we going to do if they take a large school of little kids hostage here in the USA?
also today I heard that they still had 7 to 9 bodies laying outside the front of the school, the people cannot even get close enough to the school so that they can pull the dead away from the front of it. They have been laying there for 2+ days now.
Lenta reporting shots fired in the school.
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found online at:
Friday
utro.ru
6:20 AM (moscow time) automatic was heard, a minute after - two explosions
There are not 354 hostages, as was reported before, but 354 families!
This is according to the released hostages.
Terrorists are still refusing food, water and other supplies for the hostages.
One of the freed hostages, Zalina Dzandorva told the following:
There were a lot of wounded right away, those who could not walk on their own
were finished off. All the men who tried to resist were killed (around 20). Some wounded
were taken out from the gym and shot in the hallway.
Initially, the terorrists allowed (tap) water to be distributed among the hostages,
but then frustrated with the leaders of Ingushetia and North Osetia not meeting them,
they would not even give water to children.
The Zalina Dzandorva is also saying that 2 of the women with suicide belts blew
themselves up in the hallway where men were being held....
Gun shots and grenade launchers were being fired 40 minutes ago. There's some
information that one of the gunmen is a notorious terorrist. Possibly Doka Umarov,
but right now he is asked to be called "Goretz".
kommersant.ru
has more with Zalina Dzandorova (one of the free hostages). She's saying there are up to 1,500 hostages inside the schools. Hostages are, basically, one on top of the other in the gym. Windows had to be knocked out to allow more air in.
There are about 30 male terrorists. There were, also, 2 female terrorists with suicide belts, but they blew themselves up
in the school's hallway, which held some of the male hostages. After their exploded, the male terrorists said that their "sisters" were "victiorious".
Terrorists are not taking off their masks, but claim to be chechen. They told the hostages that they want russian troops out of Chechnya, and also that their children were killed by russians and they have nothing to loose.
Coming soon to the US.
Good thing guns are forbidden in schools here.
/sarcasm
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