Posted on 08/31/2014 5:31:53 PM PDT by wetphoenix
On September 1, 2004, Chechen and Ingush militants stormed an elementary school in the town of Beslan in the Russian republic of North Ossetia. Surging through the back-to-school crowds, the militants took 1,100 teachers, children, and relatives hostage, holding them for more than two days and demanding the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya. On the third day, a series of explosions ripped through the building, igniting fires and sparking a deadly gun battle between the militants and Russian security forces. More than 330 hostages died in the violence. A decade later, correspondent Tom Balmforth and photographer Diana Markosian traveled to Beslan to speak to survivors still grappling with the memories of the loved ones they lost.
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Links don’t work for me.
www.rferl.org/media/photogallery/russia-beslan-school/26551039.html
You’d think, with terror threats, folks would take the NRA up on guarding schools. This could happen here.
I suspect there are more armed school employees than anyone knows and that’s a good thing.
They showed that they don't negotiate, so doing a terrorist siege would lead to nothing.
From Daniel Greenfield's "Where the Black Flags Fly"
If you reward violence with concessions, there's no reason for it to ever stop. And if you don't, what else is there to do?
When life is worthless, everyone has a gun and a grudge, it's easier to kill than not to kill.
It's best to understand that we are not dealing with a moral code that looks anything like our own. The nastier qualities of human nature, deceit, violence and greed, are practically virtues. Especially if they are directed at the right targets.
There's a reason that Islam was born here. There's a reason that it still thrives here largely in its unaltered form.
I remember reading a translated after action report on that. What happened there was more horrifying than the news ever reported. Young children were raped and murdered and the people were not going to stand for it.
It was a very messy operation as military operations go but the Chechens were going to kill everybody and the locals were not going to accept it.
Chechens are unrepentant murdering Islamic b@stards. They did it to the children in Beslan, they did it to us in Boston, all is the name of Allah. What’s not to know?
I had a couple of convos with school board members who wanted to build the new HS right next door the the elementary. I mentioned Beslan. They didn’t know about that and looked at me like I was crazy.
Rather amazing that, a few years later, the Russians were using Chechens to slaughter Georgians. And now, in Ukraine.
btt
It’s going to happen here. Mark my words.
I used to have sympathy for Russians. Now. Not so much.
I still think “Chechen b*******s” when I hear about Beslan. The only solace is that the children are in Heaven. The murderers are not.
I teach 5th grade. My portable building is right next to a street. Since I cannot carry my 1911 into my classroom, I leave it in my truck which is parked on that street about 20 feet from my door.
I love my 1911. I have other firearms that I like, including a Glock, but I love my 1911. My understanding is that John Moses Browning invented the 1911 to fire his new cartridge, the .45 acp. This cartridge came about because the Army felt that their current sidearm, if I recall correctly (I may not be) was ineffective against drugged up moslem warriors in the Philippines. Long story short, my sweet 1911 was invented to kill moslems.
A couple youboobs.
The final assault:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5aQqI8m9JE
The forensic investigation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6DxXOYF8qs
(only if you don’t mind looking at crispy chechens)
They sure as Hell didn't negotiate and break bread with these bastards.
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