It's despicable that the terrorists still have hostages. Even more despicable is the fact that the news agencies - BBC, CNN, FOX, etc. - are calling them Chechen rebels, hostage takers, gunmen, attackers. Anything, apparently, but what they really are - TERRORISTS. I've been saying it all morning, too. The Chechen Terrorists, I'm sure, are counting on our unwitting legitimizing of their 'cause' by not calling them Terrorists. Blech.
A Russian news source - Newsru.com (in cyrillic)- is calling a spade, a spade. They repeated refer to them as terrorists and their actions as terror.
Well the good news is that the major news networks are no longer calling these terrorists 'Chechen rebels' or 'attackers'. The bad news is that this is because they are no longer going to report on the incident, its all Bill Clinton, all the time(though perhaps they'll be able to squeeze in a Scott Peterson update.)