Posted on 09/07/2004 3:57:10 PM PDT by Wolfstar
2. The long smear on the floor is blood.
3. The last photo is a close-up of explosives wired throughout the gym.
4. FOLLOWING IS AN EXCERPT from the BBC story about the video. You can view the video on their website.
Dramatic video footage of inside the school in Beslan during the siege has been aired on Russian television.
It shows adults and children packed into the school gymnasium as heavily-armed, masked men walk around the room.
Explosives, apparently wired and ready for use, lie on the floor while others are looped around basketball hoops at either end of the gym.
Russia's NTV network, the first to broadcast the video clip, said it had been recorded by the hostage-takers.
The network did not explain how it obtained the pictures.
The footage shows hundreds of hostages crowded into the gym - many with hands above their heads.
They are still fully-clothed - although fanning themselves in the heat - suggesting the video was shot soon after the school was seized.
The camera zooms in on one hostage-taker, standing next to a young boy, with his boot on what NTV said was a book rigged with a detonator.
A woman hostage-taker, fully-clad in black dress and headscarf, is seen in the doorway holding a pistol.
There is also footage of blood on the floor, and a fire in another building on the school premises.
The BBC's Steven Eke in Moscow says that for many families in Beslan this will be the last footage of their loved ones alive.
I strongly fear this happening here if Kerry becomes president. It may, anyway, but at least I know President Bush is doing everything possible to try to prevent it. Kerry won't. Quite the opposite. He'll sell us out to the international Left in Europe and the UN.
Well, yes, but Abu Garaib, now THAT was torture (/sarcasim)
These people are Islamo-facist terrorists. Plain and simple. These people don't deserve forgiveness. They deserve as painful a death as possible.
Your sarcasm is on target. Our so-called mainstream media barely raised an eyebrow about the Beslan horror.
One of the last acts before the curatin fells was written with the blood of these children. Like all victims of evil, they didn't die in vain
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209281/posts?page=82#82
Is it just me, or does that look like a human head in the basketball hoop?
"It may, anyway, but at least I know President Bush is doing everything possible to try to prevent it."
Apparently you haven't been to AZ, to our border with Mexico.... :(
Destroy the Islamist beasts, before the destroy us.
I just saw this on BBC's website. It corroborates what the survivors have been telling the press. I think the boy sitting next to the terrorist with his foot on the detonator survived, because I remember reading the account of a boy (I can't remember where, I've read so many articles on this) who said he was sitting right next to a man who had his foot on a pedal, and a woman next to him telling him that if he pressed it, a bomb would go off.
Prior to all of the terrorism and videos of same throughout the world I could never have imagined such brutality and utter disregard for human life.
I thought that kind of brutality had died out at least 50 years ago.
Little did I know.....the pagans are still living in the 13th century.
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That's what it looks like to me.
And yes...if kerry is elected this is a great possibility!!!
Plain and simple, indeed. I look at that long smear of blood on the floor — obviously from a body dragged across the floor — and I wonder if it's from the little child who was stabbed repeatedly. Surviving children said a very young child asked for water and was savagely stabbed in response.
My Lord....I don't know what to say.This is so horrible.
Prayers for the kids and the families of all involved.
The terrorists should be burned at the stake.....alive.
They need to be dragged into the Atomic Age, if you know what I mean.....
"There's a Yugoslavia variant here," Putin warned, according to notes taken by participant Eileen O'Connor, The Washington Post reported. "It would be difficult to imagine the consequences for the rest of the world. Bear in mind Russia is a nuclear power."
Let Putin release the dogs of war.
Difficult to tell because it's a "grab" from a poor-quality video. From the wires running to it, though, I think it's a package of explosives.
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