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Islamic terrorists have really done themselves one better this time. They took over a school in Beslan, Russia and proceeded to use little children as human shields when the Russian military showed up to evict them. Vladamir Putin has now officially declared a War On Terror. BBC printed a timeline that oulines the brutality. FRIDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 1720: The bodies of 79 victims have been identified, says a North Ossetian security official. 1700: Emergencies ministry official says 646 people, including 227 children, are in hospital, reports Itar-Tass news agency. 1608: Interfax news agency cites presidential aide as saying total number...

Russia Standoff Ends in Bloodshed for 200 Sep 3, 7:10 PM (ET) By MIKE ECKEL (AP) A commando takes a postition at a seized school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004.... BESLAN, Russia (AP) - The three-day hostage siege at a school in southern Russia ended in chaos and bloodshed Friday, after witnesses said Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building. Hostages fled in terror, many of them children who were half-naked and covered in blood. Officials estimated the death toll at more than 200. Early Saturday, 531 people remained hospitalized, including 283 children...

BESLAN, North Ossetia -- When the armed attackers seized School No. 1, they separated the men from the women and children and marched them up to the second floor. The men, most of them teachers, were lined up against the wall. This is when Yury Ailarov, a father who had accompanied his daughter to school on Wednesday morning with his wife, decided not to stick around. He jumped out of the second-floor window, according to his friend Pyotr Sidarov, who said he visited Ailarov in the hospital where he was being treated for two broken arms and a concussion. Ailarov...