[Travis McGee]

New negotiating point: "Do you 20 morons really want to go down in history as the morons who led to the nuking of mecca, and the end of islam on planet earth? If you kill our children, you will lose your black moon-god rock, and your so-called religion. Think about it."

[Happy2BMe]

If the Russians lose 100% of all the remaining Islamic hostages (for the holy sake of Allah), it would still be less than 50% of what we lost just between the two WTC buildings.

[dennisw]

I don't know the exact logistics but how about the Russkies rounding up four thousand Chechnyan children and putting them behind a quickie barbed wire cyclone fence built around the school's perimeter. So if they blow up the school it's not just a human sacrifice of Russian youth?

I read this idea elsewhere.

After this crisis is over the Chechnyans should be driven to Siberia same as Stalin did. Seeing how mad dog crazy the Iraqis and Chechnyans are I have a new respect for ruthless dictators who knew how to keep them in line. Stalin and Saddam Hussein.