Is it just me, or does that look like a human head in the basketball hoop?
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.
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?
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.
And yes...if kerry is elected this is a great possibility!!!
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.
BTTT...I'm speechless.
In their heyday in the mid-90's kiosks everywhere in ikcheria had mutilple videos for sale, many with the most barbaric and blood-soaked killings you could imagine.
The horror that will reside in these children is almost more than can be contemplated. May GOD erase this from their minds.
THESE are the terrorists Kerry wants to treat with sensitivity. Kerry SICKENS me!
Any clues from the demo color?
This is just so, so damn sad. I heard the reports and I want to cry. I see the fear on the faces of those poor people and I want to grab my kid and just do something, anything to make sure we never live in a place where this crap happens.
And the really, really rotten thing is that this is what humans do to each other in the messed up, twisted name of religion or some stupid cause or whatever. What do things like this get anyone? How on earth is this right in anyone's mind, no matter how warped?
I can't even coherently say what all this makes me feel, but I tell you, it's the same thing I felt watching that second plane hit the Towers and the same thing I feel anytime I see news stories about murder and waste. Sometimes, this whole damn planet just disgusts me. God help us all if this is the kind of place some politicians think we need to live in.
Bleh. I need to go grab my kid and make him give his old mom a hug, even if he thinks he's too old.
Father God, forgive me for wanting these people to burn in hell.
Pinging you to look at these pictures and tell us that we must allow these people to do this to our own children because we want them to have total freedom of their beliefs.
Remind anyone of a certain Presidential Candidate?