[TexKat]

Bodies of schoolchildren killed in a school seizure are seen in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Russia's hostage crisis erupted into explosions, gunfire and screams of fleeing children Friday as commandos stormed the school where militants strapped with bombs had held as many as 1,200 people hostage. More than 150 people were dead, and officials said the toll would rise significantly. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

Bodies of schoolchildren killed in a school seizure seen in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Russia's hostage crisis erupted into explosions, gunfire and screams of fleeing children Friday as commandos stormed the school where militants strapped with bombs had held as many as 1,200 people hostage. More than 150 people were dead, and officials said the toll would rise significantly. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

[TexKat]

An injured schoolgirl who escaped from the seized Russian school holds a cross in her hand in a hospital in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, sending hostage-takers and their captives fleeing in a scene of chaos amid explosions and gunfire. More than 100 children were wounded in the assault, some running from the building naked and covered in blood. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)

[Mamzelle]

The fruit of Islam.

By their fruits, shall ye know them.

[sukhoi-30mki]

Excuse me,what are the targets these folks don't aim at??pig shelters????

[FormerACLUmember]

About half the IslamoFascist murdering vermin were Arab mercenaries.

It is obvious that al Queda is orchestrating the campaign against the Russian population.

[nightdriver]

"The Quran admonishes the followers of Islam that not even the children of infidels should be killed."

This just proves that Bill Kohl and the contributing AP writers are woefully ignorant of the "Quran!"

[sockmonkey]

I am weeping looking at the pictures of these innocents.

I know it's something we need to see lest we forget these kinds of extremists wish the same for our children, too.

[pabianice]

John Kerry condemned them before he found a more nuanced explanation...

[Bahbah]

I guess targets don't get much softer than children.

[Rutles4Ever]

Extremists...extremists...extremists...

Incredible.

[isthisnickcool]

Again, ANOTHER "news" story missing key words.

[I still care]

Something Netanyahou said years ago, on Fox in a debate with a liberal (It always stuck with me):

"Israel is the only country in the world that has to have security guards in their nursery schools."

I think the rest of the world is learning the lessons the Islamofascists have taught Israel.

[TopDog2]

"They have blown up mosques, attacked transportation infrastructure, destroyed planes and now conducted a mass hostage-taking," he said

Why would they blow up their own buildings? This article refuses to call the phony-a$$, moon god death-cult worshippers what they are...

[vrwcagent0498]

http://www.logicandsanity.com/archives/2004/09/hostages_zalina.html

[I still care]

"Extremists in Russia's breakaway Chechnya region increasingly have adopted the tactics of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida and other Middle Eastern terrorism groups"

Uh, duh, could this be because there are possible ties between militant Muslim Islamofascist terrorist groups, as much as the MSM tries to deny it?

[BenLurkin]

What, can't they bring themselves to call the perpetrators what they REALLY are?

[Pearls Before Swine]

I wonder if the Russians (or anyone in the West) has thought about soft targets in the homelands from which these terrorists come? Aspirin factories... mosques?

On a small scale, (blowing up homes of terrorists, buildings used by snipers or for tunnelling), this is what the Israelis have done, and it has been effective.

[primeval patriot]

This week's bloody school standoff in southern Russia, which culminated Friday in a commando raid and scores of civilian casualties that included children, shattered whatever might have remained of the notion that innocents are taboo terror victims.

Leave it to an idiot AP analyst to come up with this revelation.

As if anyone is suprised by these medieval savages' indiscriminant killing of women and children.

[AK2KX]

Sadly, coming soon to middle-America.

[jolie560]

..."... IRA terrorists came under scathing Catholic condemnation for civilian carnage."...

Something that Muslims don't do is condemn the killings. It's a reason to celebrate a victory for Allah.

I remember many a news report that identified the IRA as a "Catholic" organization.

Not so for reports of terror activities. Never are they referred to as "Muslims".....except for here at FR.

[Bryan24]

This week's bloody school standoff in southern Russia, which culminated Friday in a commando raid and scores of civilian casualties that included children, shattered whatever might have remained of the notion that innocents are taboo terror victims.

Excuse me, but where has this writer been? Since Munich in '72, terrorists have been targeting innocents. They've been blowing up children in Israel for years. He needs to get his head out of his *** and open his eyes.