Posted on 09/03/2004 12:07:10 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
Basayev, darn, you are right. Exactly. Mad about his foot.
smertnitsu - police, military. Right?
Basayev has been planning this for the last year, imo. There were posts on the chechen forums back in January which I think were about this operation.
found online at:
Friday
utro.ru
6:20 AM (moscow time) automatic was heard, a minute after - two explosions
There are not 354 hostages, as was reported before, but 354 families!
This is according to the released hostages.
Terrorists are still refusing food, water and other supplies for the hostages.
One of the freed hostages, Zalina Dzandorva told the following:
There were a lot of wounded right away, those who could not walk on their own
were finished off. All the men who tried to resist were killed (around 20). Some wounded
were taken out from the gym and shot in the hallway.
Initially, the terorrists allowed (tap) water to be distributed among the hostages,
but then frustrated with the leaders of Ingushetia and North Osetia not meeting them,
they would not even give water to children.
The Zalina Dzandorva is also saying that 2 of the women with suicide belts blew
themselves up in the hallway where men were being held....
Gun shots and grenade launchers were being fired 40 minutes ago. There's some
information that one of the gunmen is a notorious terorrist. Possibly Doka Umarov,
but right now he is asked to be called "Goretz".
kommersant.ru
has more with Zalina Dzandorova (one of the free hostages). She's saying there are up to 1,500 hostages inside the schools. Hostages are, basically, one on top of the other in the gym. Windows had to be knocked out to allow more air in.
There are about 30 male terrorists. There were, also, 2 female terrorists with suicide belts, but they blew themselves up
in the school's hallway, which held some of the male hostages. After their exploded, the male terrorists said that their "sisters" were "victiorious".
Terrorists are not taking off their masks, but claim to be chechen. They told the hostages that they want russian troops out of Chechnya, and also that their children were killed by russians and they have nothing to loose.
FOX News reporting that the situation is under control now. The Russians have "full control" of the school.Showing kids running around in their underwear (FOX says it was over 100 degrees in the Gym).
FOX mentioned approximately 350 kids were being held.
Coming soon to the US.
Good thing guns are forbidden in schools here.
/sarcasm
bump
Onward Muslim Soldiers - ping.
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BESLAN, Russia - Commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, and dozens of hostages fled the building, some bloodied and screaming.
Exchanges of gunfire rang out and a large plume of smoke rose over the school as troops clashed with the militants. Reports said some of the gunmen who had captured the building on Wednesday had escaped.
Russian authorities claimed to be in control of the building, but gunfire continued for more than an hour and hundreds of students and others apparently remained inside. Troops blew a hole into the wall of the school to help them escape, the ITAR-Tass news agency said.
Some 200 hostages were wounded and five militants were killed in the raid, ITAR-Tass said. The Interfax new agency said several militants who escaped the school were in a local residence surrounded by troops.
The assault came after several explosions boomed from the area and dozens of hostages fled the school.
Some children were covered in blood, some of them carried away to a temporary hospital set up behind an armored personnel carrier. Many were only partly clothed because of the stifling heat in the gymnasium where they had been held since the militants took the building, and drank eagerly from bottles of water given to them once they reached safety.
The commandos stormed the building on the third day of the hostage crisis in Beslan. The Interfax news agency said militants fired at children who ran from the building, and unconfirmed reports said some of the hostage-takers, possibly including women bearing suicide belts, had fled during the chaos and may have taken hostages with them.
Women escaping the building were seen fainting and others, some covered in blood, were carried away on stretchers. After the escape, commandos assaulted the building.
Interfax said the school's roof had collapsed - possibly from the explosives some militants had strapped to their bodies. The militants had reportedly threatened to blow up the building if authorities tried to storm.
On Thursday, the militants had freed about 26 hostages, all women and children, and Russian officials had been in negotiations with the militants since they had seized the building Wednesday.
There were conflicting reports of the number of hostages, with official saying about 350 and people among a small group freed on Wednesday saying there were about 1,500.
President Vladimir Putin had said that everything possible would be done to end the "horrible" crisis and save the lives of the children.
Two major hostage-taking raids by Chechen rebels outside the war-torn region in the past decade prompted forceful Russian rescue operations that led to many deaths. The most recent, the seizure of a Moscow theater in 2002, ended after a knockout gas was pumped into the building, debilitating the captors but causing almost all of the 129 hostage deaths.
This is sounding more and more like a Tom Clancy book.
What did Tom Clancy know? When did he know it? And who is using his books as terror handbook guides.
I'm with you 100% on this, Trav. These orcs survive solely at our discretion, and I for one have completely had it with their crap. God help me for saying it, but it's time to glass Mecca and get the ball rolling for real. The longer we wait, the more overall cost and suffering we will incur in our mission to preserve civilization against these subhumans.
deathwishers..wanters...suicideguys...typical jihader.
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