[MarMema]

Zarina Tetova, mother of killed hostages Irina (L), 13 and Alina, 12, holds their portraits in front of their coffins during a memorial in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September 5, 2004. The sound of weeping mothers who lost their children in the bloody end to Russia's school siege drifted out of the houses of Beslan on Sunday as relatives prepared to bury the first of 333 people killed.

[MarMema]

I want to beg your pardon for failing to protect children, teachers and parents," Alexander Dzasokhov, president of North Ossetia province, said with tears in his eyes when he visited wounded children in hospital.

The province's interior minister, Kazbek Dzantiyev, went even further and submitted his resignation over last week's hostage crisis that ended in a bloody battle between the rebels and Russian troops. The resignation was rejected.

[dennisw]

prayers for these two innocents

[workerbee]

Meanwhile, U.S. media is busy telling us that it's raining in Florida.

Oh God... I weep for these people. The horror of this is almost unimaginable.

[ezfindit]

We cry and pray. Please forward these to Bishop Tikhon of the OCA who claimed this about the BUSH administration: "In my opinion the present administration exceeds in immorality all previous administrations. I think Howard Dean's "Worse than Watergate" should be read by all voters."

Feel free to email him directly at: vladyka@worldnet.att.net