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Decision to use gas during storm of Moscow theater approved by hostages
Interfax, Russia ^
| October 27, 2002
| Interfax
Posted on 10/27/2002 12:36:23 PM PST by FairOpinion
MOSCOW. Oct 27 (Interfax) - Former hostages agree that if the gas used before the storm of a Moscow theater had not been sufficiently strong, the terrorists would have had time to blast their explosives.
"When gas seeped into the theater after the terrorists killed the first hostages, I saw that one of the terrorists, who sat on the stage, jumped up and tried to put on a respirator. He made several convulsive moves, trying to pull the mask over his face, and fell," a former hostage, currently undergoing medical treatment at a Moscow hospital, told Interfax, recalling the first minutes of the storm.
He said the terrorists had expected the use of incapacitating agents and brought in respirators and gas masks. "If they had not been incapacitated so quickly, they would have had time to carry their plans through," he said.
He also said that a woman, obviously a teacher, who sat not far from him, sprinkled water on napkins and pressed them on her pupils' mouths.
"She kept the napkins that way until she lost consciousness, and she saved the children," he said.
Among the children, saved by the teacher, was Anna Laba, the 12 year-old daughter of an Interfax journalist.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: chechen; gas; hostages; moscow; russia; terrorism; terrorists; theater
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To: spetznaz
I love Putin wish we had someone like him here...
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10/27/2002 7:07:37 PM PST
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weikel
To: FairOpinion
The Geneva convention only bans military use. During WWII I believe the only power to use poison gas military was Imperial Japan( in China).
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10/27/2002 7:09:37 PM PST
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weikel
To: sneakypete
Putin I think is my favorite world leader since Pinochet and I was real skeptical of the Russians before him.
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10/27/2002 7:12:28 PM PST
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weikel
To: FairOpinion
There is no telling what all the Russians have in their arsenal!! They cannot be trusted. I believe they have provided Saddam a lot of what he has. And, whatever the Russians have, one can bet it can be bought on the street over there. That is still a most secretive, paranoid society, and we should "trust, but verify". Haven't I heard that somewhere before?
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10/27/2002 7:41:04 PM PST
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whadizit
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To: jiggyboy
To: Dante3
I expect that the Russians will be sliding more in the direction of the US lead with respect to smashing islamoterrorism and islamofascism and islamoidiocy hereafter. Whether the French and the Chinese can get the picture is hard to say. Rather than screw any more with the French we should endeavor to have them removed as a permanent member of the Security Council. They were given the seat as a token, anyway, and have consistently failed to live up to what little was expected of them. As to the Chinese, well, there are a lot of them, but they don't have much interest in things outside the middle kingdom. As long as oil, for example, flows, they don't care much who happens to be the custodian. So let's get the Russians on board, pitch le fops and work on le chinosoises so we can kick islamoterrorist butt big time, early and often, until the become the peaceful people they purport to be instead of the rottweiler of religions.
To: FairOpinion
I think Russia made the best decision they could under the circumstances.Agreed.
Could you imagine if that same situation happened in this country and the same results occured. With the legions of lawyers and Bush haters it would be chaos. - Tom
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