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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...school_seizure
(Link does not appear to be working anymore) BELSAN, Russia - More than a dozen militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a southern Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya (news - web sites) on Wednesday, taking hostage about 400 people — half of them children — and threatening to blow up the building if police storm it. As many as eight people have been reported killed, one of them a school parent. Hours into the desperate standoff, security officials said they had made brief contact with the hostage-takers. Russian special forces wearing camouflage and carrying heavy-caliber machine guns surrounded Middle School No. 1. About 1,000 people, mostly parents, were massed the three-story building in the town of Belsen, demanding information and accusing the government of failing to protect their children. Kazbek Dzantiyev, head of the North Ossetia region's Interior Ministry, said that the hostages have threatened "for every destroyed fighter, they will kill 50 children and for every injured fighter — 20 (children)," the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. (more at link) Oh yeah. This is the way to gain sympathy for your cause. |
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I Just pray for the children and their parents. |
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The islamists will use these sorts of acts of terror to gain political control in country after country until we are virtually surrounded and outnumbered.
It would be foolish, in the extreme, to see this trend coming and do nothing to halt it. Catz
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"In essence, war has been declared on us, where the enemy is unseen and there is no front," Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said.
If these terrorists think that this kind of thing is going to endear themselves to their cause....whatever it is.....they've got another think coming! Does anybody think that Russia, France and Germany will be more willing now to join Pres. Bush and 'GO ON THE OFFENSIVE' against these terrorists.? I'll tell ya: it sure beats sitting around waiting for it to come to your local gradeschool. a 'BESLAN, Russia (AP) - Militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a southern Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, taking hundreds of hostages - many of them children - and threatening to blow up the building if police storm it. As least two people have been reported killed, including a school parent." http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/200...D84R2FHO2.html
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It has everything to do with the Russia-Chechnya conflict I would do a background check before making such crass statements
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I keep thinking "why can't they see that this is only hurting their "cause"...but then i remember that i am thinking like a sane person and they obviously are not.
God is with these kids and their parents. I pray that everyone of them will come out okay and that when they grow up this horrible experience will help them find a way to stop this insanity. |
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