For Russians, Wounds Linger in School Siege (Why we are in Iraq)

NYTimes.com ^ | 08/26/05 | By C. J. CHIVERS

[MNJohnnie]

BESLAN, Russia - The ruins of School No. 1 have changed little in a year. Blood remains on the walls in handprints and streaks. A blood-darkened shirt lies in the cafeteria, about the size for a 5-year-old.

At School No. 1 in Beslan, in the Caucasus, the gym with its still gaping roof is a shrine to those killed a year ago.

One wing has been sheared away by tank fire. The gym, its roof burned, is open to the sky. Upstairs, deflated balloons sag where they had been taped to the auditorium ceiling for the first day of school.

According to the Russian government, 331 people were killed here last year from Sept. 1 through Sept. 3, including 186 children. More than 700 were wounded. It was the worst terrorist act in modern Russian history, and a test of the administration of President Vladimir V. Putin, whose government pledged to find out the truth about what occurred.

[MNJohnnie]

For those who have forgotten, THIS is why we are in Iraq. When you hear Hagel or the banSheehan or Dean or Kerry or whomever rant against Iraq, this is why we are there. Chechen Terrorists have been killed in both Afghanistan and Iraq. The War on Terror is an interlocking whole no matter what the Dinosaur Media trys to tell you. Iraq IS part of the war, not a separate matters, as the Cut and Run Caucus would have you believe. We kill them THERE to make sure Beslan doesn't happen HERE. It really is just that simple.

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT!

[netmilsmom]

>>THIS is why we are in Iraq.<<

Amen!!
And God Bless our Soldiers for fighting them there instead of in my daughter's kindergarten.

[kb2614]

We kill them THERE to make sure Beslan doesn't happen HERE. It really is just that simple.

But but but,,,,it's all about the OIL!!!!!

sarcasm off

[MNJohnnie]

But but but,,,,it's all about the OIL!!!!! sarcasm off

Oh wow! Here I thought it was about Terrorism, thanks for raising my conciousness dude!

sarcasm off

[backhoe]

Lest we forget:

The Beslan Horror- When Hell Came Calling
various FR links | 09-07-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209052/posts

[DB]

So why is the blood still on the walls??? For that matter why are the building either not repaired or torn down by now??? That is not something that would be left in all its horror to remain in its present state in the west.

They can do better.

[MNJohnnie]

The ruins of School No. 1 have changed little in a year. Blood remains on the walls in handprints and streaks. A blood-darkened shirt lies in the cafeteria, about the size for a 5-year-old.

And the Leadership of the Democrat party thinks I should be more upset about Abu Graib and Gitmo then THIS????????

[MNJohnnie]

They can do better.

Perhaps that is why the USA is so quick to forget. We tear down or bury the horror and forgot why we fight. They don't.

[SMARTY]

I don't understand their attack on authorities in the way the thing was addressed. How can that be fair? The attack by terrorists was unique in their experience and of course the method and results suffered. Add to that the extreme emotional stress and it's even more remarkable. Of course this means that a coordinated and precise response protocol must be put into place and it's a hard lesson...but a lesson. The lesson holds for all free countries. I don't think the Russian response was deliberately bungled and it's not fair for the authorities to be blamed to that extent. Maybe I'm wrong. The terrorists love this kind of divisiveness about even their failed efforts. Victims' dissent ion about methods and responses to terror and anger with each other diverts anti-terror efforts and blame from perpetrators.

[DB]

Well we are actually fighting a war.

What are they doing on the terror front?

Arming Iran with nuclear weapons.

They can do better.

[GarySpFc]

There is a difference between nuclear weapons and a light water reactor. Russia sold theirs to them, whereas the EU offered to give the Iranians one if they would dismantle their heavy water reactor.

[Mi-kha-el]

Russians were pretty pissed with the US for receiving the Chechen rebel leaders in Washington and bombing the Serbs.

[kinghorse]

obviously not too deeply or they wouldn't be arming Iran. Oh, right, different se(c)t of crazies.

[layman]

A central purpose of the federal investigations has been to protect officials who failed

This sounds familiar.

[GunnyHartman]

How can you miss the gipper and be a DU troll at the same time? What is your name at DU, the hildabeast in 08?

[Clink]

If, God forbid, a Beslan incident happened in the U.S. does anyone think that the left would change their tune?

[numberonepal]

Did I just log in at DU, or are you a troll?