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Live fire near school in Russia (standoff)
CNN ^ | September 3, 2004

Posted on 09/03/2004 2:21:29 AM PDT by Former Military Chick

BESLAN, Russia (CNN) -- Hundreds more hostages may be inside a school under siege in southern Russian than first thought, Russian officials have said.

As the crisis entered its third day Friday, a spokesman for the regional government told CNN an earlier estimate of 350 hostages was low.

Two of 26 hostages freed by their captors on Thursday indicated there were 1,000 children, parents and teachers inside the building in Beslan, near the troubled Russian republic of Chechnya.

Relatives waiting outside the school also have said there could be as many as 1,000 hostages, noting that the school has 11 grades with 75-100 students in each grade.

Asked about the discrepancy with the earlier estimate, the regional government spokesman said officials originally accounted only for those children whose parents reported them missing.

But teachers also were in the school when armed attackers seized the building Wednesday morning.

And many of the children -- especially in the lower grades -- were accompanied by their parents and in some cases entire families for a celebration to mark the start of the school year.

"The situation in school very, very dire," CNN's Ryan Chilcote reported from the scene.

"Two of the 26 women and children released yesterday are saying the situation is very bad inside the school's gymnasium where the hostages are being kept.

"At one point the men were separated from the women and children. The men were then brought back into the gymnasium, but there weren't as many of them, and there's no word what happened to the other men."

"There is no food and water. At one point the hostage-takers brought them one cup of water for, as they put it, 1,000 hostages."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Russia
KEYWORDS: caucasus; chechens; muslims; ossetia; terror
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To: roadrunner96
"act that doesn't end in total failure"

For a Terrorist, failure is not killing all of your hostages. This is what defines a terrorist and the realization that the people were not hostages, but victims when the terrorist chose to finish their planned attack.

321 posted on 09/03/2004 8:06:49 AM PDT by Deguello
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To: Yasmine

Why arent isnt the media mentioning that these are Muslim Chechnyns??

Because the Media is on the side of the Muslims and are doing their best to undermine our efforts to eradicate this plague from the earth.


322 posted on 09/03/2004 8:40:08 AM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (Goodnight Chesty, wherever you may be.)
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To: Former Military Chick

it makes sick, angry, frustrated ... I could go on ..

Agreed :(


323 posted on 09/03/2004 8:42:28 AM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (Goodnight Chesty, wherever you may be.)
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To: Former Military Chick
I think this pictures are appropriate together. This could happen here:


Pray for the victims, and then pray for retribution.

I'm so mad right now, I'm gonna get banned and probably visited by "suits" if I say anything else.

324 posted on 09/03/2004 10:18:01 AM PDT by DCBryan1
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To: DCBryan1

I hope you don't mind if I share this often?


325 posted on 09/03/2004 11:22:32 AM PDT by JustPiper (Zell " We are LIBERATOR'S NOT Obstructionists!!!" Miller- OCCUPY THIS KERRY !!!)
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To: JustPiper

spread it around! PLEASE!


326 posted on 09/03/2004 12:08:33 PM PDT by DCBryan1
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To: DCBryan1

I've pinged you to the TM thread, I cannot stop crying!
I am incensed the top story is Clinton's bypass and in the meantime all these children/parents were slaughtered! I hate the liberal media!


327 posted on 09/03/2004 12:10:26 PM PDT by JustPiper (Zell " We are LIBERATOR'S NOT Obstructionists!!!" Miller- OCCUPY THIS KERRY !!!)
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To: Former Military Chick

Timeline I compiled from my email:

9/2 10:13pm
BESLYAN, Russia (AP) Two new accounts say there are at least 1,000 hostages being held captive at a school in souther Russia.

9/3 2:24am
MOSCOW (AP) Russia's NTV television reports two explosions near a school in southern Russia, followed by gunfire and soldiers rushing toward the building.

2:27am
MOSCOW (AP) The Interfax news agency is reporting that a group of hostages has broken out of a school in southern Russia.

2:37am
BESLAN, Russia (AP) The Interfax news agency is reporting that the school roof has collapsed and militants are shelling and firing from the building.

2:46am
FNC: BLASTS, GUNFIRE HEARD AT RUSSIA SCHOOL WHERE CHECHEN TERRORISTS HOLD HUNDREDS HOSTAGE; REPORTS SAY ROOF COLLAPSED AFTER EXPLOSIONS

3:22am
MOSCOW (AP) The Interfax news agency says Russian commandos have taken control of most of the school in southern Russia.

4:27am
BESLAN, Russia (AP) Interfax news agency reports that all hostages have been evacuated from school gymnasium.

4:35am
BESLAN, Russia (AP) The ITAR-Tass news agency says that most of some 200 wounded hostages taken to hospitals are children

4:54am
BESLAN, Russia (AP) Regional emergency officials say 250 hostages have been wounded, including 180 children, during gunfire and explosions at a school.

5:04am
MOSCOW (AP) The Interfax news agency says at least five children have been killed in the shooting and explosions at the seized school in southern Russia.

5:28am
BESLAN, Russia (AP) The ITAR-Tass news agency says at least seven people were killed in the school hostage violence

5:52am
BESLAN, Russia (AP) The regional president says the hostage-takers at a seized school had demanded Russian troops leave Chechnya.

6:23am
BESLAN, Russia (AP) The Interfax news agency says dozens of people have been killed in the collapse of the roof at a school where hostages were held.

7:03am
MOSCOW (AP) The Interfax news agency reports that the bodies of more than 100 hostages have been found in the school gym in southern Russia.

8:03am
MOSCOW (AP) The Interfax new agency reports that three militants remain blockaded in the basement of the school, possibly including head hostage-taker.

8:24am
MOSCOW (AP) The regional Russian Federal Security Service chief says some hostages are still being held in school standoff.

8:35am
MOSCOW (AP) A Russian presidential aide says nine militants killed in hostage crisis were Arab mercenaries, according to the Interfax news agency.

8:42am
MOSCOW (AP) The Interfax news agency cites a Russian presidential aide as saying the death toll in school hostage crisis could be significantly more than 150.

9:14am
BESLAN, Russia (AP) The ITAR-Tass news agency reports that a strong explosion has gone off in the school building where hostages had been held.

11am
WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) President Bush calls Russia hostage siege "another grim reminder" of the lengths to which terrorists will go.


328 posted on 09/03/2004 12:39:54 PM PDT by JustPiper (Zell " We are LIBERATOR'S NOT Obstructionists!!!" Miller- OCCUPY THIS KERRY !!!)
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To: DCBryan1

It is a very moving picture. It has happened here and will more than likely occur again.


329 posted on 09/03/2004 4:53:29 PM PDT by Former Military Chick (Ticked OFF in the heartland.)
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